Winnipeg Jets pre-season game 5 roster and projected lines vs Flames

The Jets segmented into two groups on Tuesday which saw them have an NHL group and a most likely AHL bound group although, today for the fifth game of the pre-season, it will be mixed up as some of the young prospects get a shot to make an impression.

Roster:

G: Connor Hellebuyck, & Eric Comrie

D: Dylan DeMelo, Haydn Fleury, Simon Lundmark, Josh Morrissey, Dylan Coghlan, Elias Salomonsson & Tyrel Bauer

F: Vladislav Namestnikov, Gabriel Vilardi, Adam Lowry, David Gustafsson, Nikolaj Ehlers, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Mark Scheifele, Nino Niederreiter, Kyle Connor, Nikita Chibrikov, Cole Perfetti and Brad Lambert.

Skate news:

Thomas Milic (G) and Dmitry Kuzmin (D) were added to this morning’s group although neither are expected to play.

Projected lines and D pairs:

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Niederreiter-Lambert-Chibrikov
Gustafsson-Lowry-JAD

Morrissey-DeMelo
Fleury-Coghlan
Lundmark-Salomonsson

Hellebuyck
Comrie

Player media:

Coach media:

Topics:

1. Are there one or two things tnt he’s looking to see improvement on?
2. Is he pleasantly surprised that the players are making cuts difficult? (1:56)
3. What has Dylan Coghlan shown in camp? (3:08)
4. What has Simon Lundmark done to raise his stock? (3:51)
5. What have young guys/Brad Lambert shown him? (4:37)
6. Will Lambert be in final pre-season game Friday? (5:57)
7. What will he be looking for from Brad Lambert? (6:08)

Up next:

Puck drop is at 7 pm CT and you can watch the game on TSN.

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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