Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

A quick drive down Portage Avenue takes one from Moose pre-game skate to the Jets practice at Canada Life.

I didn’t get to practice in time to see the lines and D pairs but we get this from Mike McIntyre of the Winnipeg Free Press:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Perfetti-Niederreiter
Iafallo-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Kupari-Namestnikov
Gustafsson

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Dillon-Schmidt
Stanley-Chisholm

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

Players Media availability:

Following skate we heard from Jets head coach Rick Bowness as his club gets ready to face the Panthers tomorrow afternoon to play their home opener.

Topics:

1) What his team accomplished in Calgary that he’d like to see carry over?
2) What does he want to correct from the last game? (1:12)
3) Panthers having to deal with similar situation to what Jets went through. (2:09)
4) Any health concerns with Nikolaj Ehlers based on end of last game? (2:41)
5) Taking advantage of home ice (3:04)

Next up:

The Jets will host the Panthers tomorrow afternoon with puck drop at 3 PM. Be sure you join us tomorrow on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show at 9 AM and then after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.