The Jets were off yesterday and will hit the ice today in Winnipeg as they get set for the biggest game of the season tomorrow night when they host the Flames. Calgary plays the Hawks tonight at home before they fly to Manitoba for tomorrow’s game. So they could potentially be tied in points (although Winnipeg would hold the tie breaker) or they could remain two points back (either way Jets would have a game in hand).
Skate news:
One change today is that Saku Maenalanen was wearing a white jersey and Karson Kuhlman went to dark blue.
Lines and D pairs:
Connor-Dubois-Scheifele
Ehlers-Namestnikov-Wheeler
Niederreiter-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Stenlund-Maenalanen
AJF-Gustafsson-Kuhlman
Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Samberg-Schmidt
Stanley-Capobianco
Hellebuyck
Rittich
Player media availability:
Coach media availability:
Topics:
1) Entire team supporting Pride initiative.
2) Why is the initiative important to him? (1:15)
3) How has he seen the game evolve in terms of inclusion? (2:10)
4) What has he learned about the Flames this season? (2:28)
5) What kind of game is he expecting tomorrow? (2:57)
6) What is his message to the players ahead of the game? (3:38)
7) How do last two games help them coach/showing film (4:16)
8) Does he expect atmosphere to be like playoff game in regular season game? (5:23)
9) Specific improvements after changing the lines (6:17)
10) Hard to explain minimal changes, big results (6:59)
11) Bringing Maenalanen back into the lineup (7:41)
12) Drama of the game (8:16)
13) Was he more vocal today in his drills? (8:58)
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Up next:
The Jets take on the Flames tomorrow night. Be sure start your morning with the Morning Papers which go live at 7 AM, stick with us for the latest Jets news and then join us after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.
