Winnipeg Jets Practice Report

The Jets are back in Friendly Manitoba and looking forward to some home cooking the next week or so as they look to forget the woeful 2-4-0 road trip and get back on track starting with the Blue Jackets tomorrow night.

With Morgan Barron and Cole Koepke seemingly ready to return the question becomes which of Brad Lambert, Nikita Chibrikov or Parker Ford is heading down to join the Moose in the AHL. And if Haydn Fleury is ready to return as well after being in concussion protocol then it could be a clean sweep of that trio down to Manitoba.

Skate news:

No Fleury skating today. Barron was in a regular jersey. Lambert, Chibrikov, Ford and Koepke in light blue of extras. No Connor Hellebuyck but in his place was his old goalie partner, Michael Hutchinson.

Lines and D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Namestnikov-Toews-Perfetti
Niederreiter-Lowry-Iafallo
Pearson-Barron-Nyquist
Chibrikov-Ford-Lambert

Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Stanley-Schenn
Koepke-Miller

Comrie & Hutchinson

Lowry facing his toughest media:

Jets captain Adam Lowry facing the toughest questions he’ll get all season long from a group of young Winnipeggers in the Matt Frost Media Centre.

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:
1) Takeaways from the last two weeks.
2) Factors in making roster decisions (:35)
3) Biggest benefit to Dylan Samberg’s return (1:09)
4) Samberg’s hockey IQ (1:59)
5) Spending less time in their zone (2:45)
6) Getting one more breakout a period (3:53)
7) Thoughts on Cole Perfetti’s game (5:17)
8) His thoughts on the Lowry line (5:59)
9) Lack of overtime/shootout points (6:44)
10) Confidence of Logan Stanley (7:44)
11) Benefit of having Chibrikov/Lambert for two months with team (8:32)

Up next:

The Jets will take on the Blue Jackets tomorrow night. 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, stick with us throughout the day for updates and then join us on the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after the final buzzer around 9:40 PM CST.