Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

With back-to-back losses the Jets are back in Winnipeg as they prepare to face the Panthers tomorrow night for their only home game in a while.

Skate news:

Only player missing is Logan Stanley who missed the road trip with a mid body injury.

Lines & D pairs:

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

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

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:

1) Getting the team back on track.
2) Small ice drills (:50)
3) How did he like how they practiced today? (2:00)
4) Was there an area the last two games he was concerned with? (2:56)
5) What they looked like in video (3:37)
6) Does he have an update on Logan Stanley? (4:32)
7) Progress of Ville Heinola? (4:44)
8) Importance of being able to move on (5:17)

Health update:

Jets head coach Scott Arniel indicated that Logan Stanley is “still gonna be a little bit here. He’s gonna come on the road trip with us but he won’t be skating here yet for another four or five days I don’t think.”

On the Ville Heinola front the progress report from the Winnipeg bench boss was as follows:

“We finally got him into heavy contact. We got a couple on the road not that we practiced a whole lot. But today I thought was a really good one. He got to get into some really good 5 on 5 stuff. We got a decision to make with him. We’ll talk to him and see how we move forward here. We want to get him in some games sooner than later. We just gotta find out what the best course of it is. If the docs are 100% ready for us to move forward with him into games and talk to him about best scenario.”

Conditioning Loan:

A few hours after our chat with the Jets bench boss the decision had been made as the team announced they had loaned Ville Heinola to the Moose on a conditioning assignment.

Up next:

The Jets take on the Panthers tomorrow evening at 7 pm CST. 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 CST, check back for the pre-game report, join us at Cityplace tomorrow at 12 noon for the IC pre-game show we do once per month and then join us after the final buzzer on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show around 9:40 PM CST.