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The Jets saved their followers completely happy on Thursday evening, profitable a 2-1 win tight checking recreation at house towards the Seattle Kraken. Tonight, on “Hockey Day in Canada” the Jets will conclude their season lengthy 8 recreation house stand with a go to from the Calgary Flames. There might be stay multilingual webcasts for all of the Canadian groups in motion tonight, together with the Jets, which might be accessible in Cree on APTN. The Flames enter tonight’s recreation following again to again losses on the highway towards the St. Louis Blues. Each groups might be trying to decide up a a lot wanted win because the 4 Nations face off event break approaches in lower than a month.
On the high of the NHL standings you’ll nonetheless see the Winnipeg Jets and Washington Capitals tied at 65 factors. The Flames are doing higher than most individuals predicted they’d earlier than the season began, at the moment sitting fifteenth total within the standings with a 21-16-7 file. The 2 groups have solely met as soon as this season, on October twenty sixth, when the Jets received 5-3 in Calgary. Nevertheless, these two groups have been equally matched of their final 10 video games head-to-head, splitting the wins with 5 every.
Followers proceed to surprise when extra harm updates might be accessible for the handful of Jets away from recreation motion. On the optionally available apply yesterday, Mason Appleton and Vlad Namestnikov skated with the crew for the first time since their accidents. Haydn Fleury and Colin Miller have been additionally skating, as their returns appear to be getting nearer and nearer. The coaches will communicate to the medical employees this morning to see which gamers might be able to return to the lineup tonight towards the Flames.
The projected beginning goalies for tonight’s all Canadian matchup are Dustin Wolf and Connor Hellebuyck. Wolf’s 1st full season within the NHL has been a significant success story for the Flames, posting nice numbers and just about incomes the beginning job at this level within the season. Wolf’s profession numbers at the moment sit at 23-14-3 with a .907 save proportion. On the opposite aspect of the crease it is best to count on to see Connor Hellebuyck. The Flames have had issues scoring all 12 months, rating twenty seventh within the league in scoring, so this recreation has the potential to be an excellent one for Hellebuyck. The Jets will ultimately want to present Comrie extra begins because the season goes on, however for now they will proceed to roll with the NHL’s number one goalie in virtually all of the vital statistics.
Tonight’s “participant to observe” from the Jets is Mark Scheifele. The Kitchener native leads the Jets with 6 objectives within the final 10 video games. Kyle Connor and Gabe Vilardi are shut behind with 5 objectives every, however Scheifele has been scoring every kind of how not too long ago, together with on the Jets high 5 within the league powerplay. The first line continues to hold the Jets offence, so count on Scheifele to have one other good efficiency towards the Flames.
Puck drop for tonight’s Saturday evening matchup is at 6:00 pm CT. Following this recreation, the Jets will play Utah twice and the Avalanche earlier than the Jets and Flames meet once more in Winnipeg on January twenty sixth. In comparison with the slower recreation towards the Kraken on Thursday, I count on tonight’s recreation to be pretty motion filled with objectives, penalties and all kinds of different hockey performs because the nation watches on “Hockey Day in Canada”. Bear in mind to examine again right here put up recreation for an on the spot response and recap on tonight’s recreation, as we are going to discover out if the Jets can lengthen their present profitable streak to 4 video games.
Jets Projected Lineup
Connor – Scheifele – Vilardi
Ehlers – Lowry – Iafallo
Niederreiter – Kupari – Perfetti
Toninato – Gustafsson – Barron
Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Pionk
Stanley – Heinola
Hellebuyck
Comrie
Injured: Fleury (decrease physique), Appleton (decrease physique), Miller (fractured larynx), and Namestnikov (decrease physique)
