The Jets started the post-holiday portion of their schedule with a 2-1 OT loss to the Hawks on Wednesday night and will prepare today for a big home and home set against division rival Minnesota which gets underway in Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon.

The Wild have been on a roll winning four straight, going 7-3-0 in their last ten games as they try to make up ground in the Central division. They sit eight points back of Winnipeg which is what makes the next two games very big.

Skate news:

As per Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun the Jets began practice working on the power play which isn’t a surprise. He indicated no David Gustafsson, who was a late scratch in Chicago is not skating and that Ville Heinola and Rasmus Kupari were participating in non-contact jerseys.

The lines and D pairs before are courtesy of Scott.

Lines and D pairs:

Ehlers-Scheifele-Vilardi
Perfetti-Namestnikov-Iafallo
Niederreiter-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Toninato-AJF

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

Coach media:

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Up next:

The Jets will face off against the Wild tomorrow afternoon at 1 PM. Don’t forget to start your day with the Jets morning papers at 7 AM, come check out the Illegal Curve Hockey Show at 9 AM, stick with us for updates all morning long and then join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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