The Jets have a third straight day of practice in Winnipeg following the Christmas break as they prepare for their game on Friday in Calgary.
Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)
Recall news:
Winnipeg announced this morning that they had reassigned Mikey Eyssimont from the AHL to the taxi squad.
Skate news:
As per Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun defenceman Neal Pionk has now joined the team on the ice. He also provides the lines and D pairs below.
Lines and D pairs:
Stastny-Scheifele-Ehlers
Connor-Dubois-Harkins
Toninato-Lowry-Reichel
Beaulieu-Gustafsson-Suess
Eyssimont
Morrissey-Schmidt
Dillon-Pionk
Stanley-DeMelo
Heinola
Player media availability:
Coach media availability:
Topics:
1) Leaning on vets to help get buy-in.
2) Taking every opportunity available to teach (1:42)
3) Team champing at the bit to go vs Cgy (3:16)
4) Benefits for Cole Perfetti at World Juniors (4:23)
5) Does he see opportunity for Perfetti to step in (5:24)
6) Status of Evgeny Svechnikov (6:08)
7) Is Nate Beaulieu a 4th line option Friday? (6:54)
8) Importance of puck retrieval (8:20)
Up next:
Sounds like Jets may be off tomorrow and then back on Thursday as they continue to prepare for the game against the Flames.
