The Jets and Ducks did battle last night which saw the visitors skate away with a 3-2 win to kick off the road trip with an important victory as they banked two more points for the standings bank. It allowed them to maintain their position with the Preds who also won last night (5 back with three games in hand) and to put some more distance on the Flames who lost to the Golden Knights in regulation.
Skate news:
Murat Ates of The Athletic Winnipeg is in El Segundo for practice and he provides the lines and D pairs below. Based on this it seems reasonable to infer that Dylan Samberg will return to the lineup for Kyle Capobianco when they take on the Kings in a Saturday matinee. Of course we will have to wait and see if head coach Rick Bowness confirms.
Lines and D pairs:
Connor-Dubois-Niederreiter
Namestnikov-Lowry-Appleton
Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler
Barron-Stenlund-Maenalanen
Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt
Capobianco-Stanley
Player media availability:
To follow.
Coach media availability:
Topics:
1) Challenge of playing a structed team like the Kings?
2) Given how they are playing is he comfortable facing L.A.? (:29)
3) Challenges facing off against two really sound centres (1:08)
4) Samberg drawing back in (1:40)
5) Connor Hellebuyck starts? (1:54)
6) What works so well with Connor & Dubois? (2:10)
7) 80 & 81 spending time in the opponents end (2:48)
8) More offense to be had? (3:27)
Merch contest:
We are a little more than 2/3 of the way into the month of March but there are still a few more opportunities left to enter and win the IC contest for authentic Jets merch. You can enter here.
Up next:
The Jets take on the Kings tomorrow afternoon. Be sure start your morning with the Morning Papers which go live at 7 AM, join us at 9 AM on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show, stick with us for the latest Jets news and then join us after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.
