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.

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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.

David Minuk

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