Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets are flying high right now after their red-hot 5-0-0 start including yesterday’s 6-3 win over the Penguins as the team and city honoured long-time centre Bryan Little who signed a one-day contract to retire (media availability here) as a Jet.

Skate news:

Everyone present and accounted for this morning at CLC.

Lines and D pairs:

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

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Stanley-Miller
Fleury-Coghlan

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:
1. Does he compartmentalize the schedule into segments?
2. What is he anticipating from the Blues? (:50)
3. Central Division hockey (1:27)
4. Hitting hot teams in Blues, Kraken, Flames (2:32)
5. Does facing more challenging teams help offset team easing up being 5-0-0? (3:10)
6. What has he liked about his team through five games? (4:05)
7. Letting the lines grow in chemistry (5:13)
8. The Penguins tossing a wrinkle against their PP (6:02)
9. Pairing of Samberg and Pionk (7:08)
10. Samberg’s growth in his game (8:18)

Up next:

The Jets will finally head out on the road after today’s practice leaving for St. Louis where they’ll play the first of three games on the road on Tuesday against the Blues. You can start your day with all the latest Jets and Moose news in the AM Papers on illegalcurve.com which are available starting at 7 AM CDT, check back for the pre-game report, stick with us throughout the day for updates and then join us after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 9:40 PM CDT.