Winnipeg Jets Travel Day media availabilities

The Jets play game 5 of their seven game series on Thursday night in Vegas. They didn’t practice today but instead chose to hold a media availability at the airport before they took off for a must-win game in Nevada.

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1) Status of Mark Scheifele, Nikolaj Ehlers & David Rittich?
2) Mentality needed when backs against the wall? (1:12)
3) Potential line combinations (2:00)
4) Trying to find right mix (2:22)
5) What makes him confident they can win game 5? (3:14)
6) The war of attrition just four games into a series (3:44)

Health update:

The focus is obviously on Mark Scheifele right now after the Jets top goal scorer crashed into the boards and did not return to the game. Rick Bowness said at the airport that he spoke to Scheifele and that “he is feeling better than he did last night. He is definitely on the day-to-day and let’s put him in the hopeful category for Thursday.”

He added that Nikolaj Ehlers will skate with the team tomorrow and “we’ll see where he is”.

Last up was goalie David Rittich who is dealing with a “lower-body thing”. Bowness said they’ll see tomorrow if he’s able to skate or not….we won’t have an answer on that till tomorrow.”. As a result they are bringing Arvid Holm with them on the road.

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