Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets left Nevada for Utah which is where they are set to conclude their three-game road trip. After a 4-1 loss on Tuesday in Los Angeles they bounced back with a huge 4-0 win over the Golden Knights in Vegas on Thursday night, which was their first win in Sin City since January 1st, 2022.

Skate news:

As per Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press no Nikolaj Ehlers at skate today but he indicated he saw him walking around the rink. Wieber also provides the lines and D pairs at today’s skate.

Lines and D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo
Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Tanev-Lowry-Appleton
Gustafsson-Barron-Anderson Dolan

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Schenn
Stanley-Miller
Fleury-Pionk
Heinola

Hellebuyck
Comrie
Driedger

Coach’s comments:

“He’ll be a game-time tomorrow. Not as bad as we had thought. A lot better today than he was obviously after the game last night. We’ll take it to game-time tomorrow and see how it goes.” Jets head coach in his media availability after today’s practice on Nikolaj Ehlers. He added “Got hit in the same leg twice there. Let’s hope that’s all it is, is just day-to-day.”

Up next:

It is going to be a busy Saturday around these parts.  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, join us at ( AM CDT for two hours of Jets/Moose talk on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show, then the Moose and Wolves play at 2 PM CDT in Winnipeg and then join us after the final buzzer in Utah on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.