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After squashing the New Jersey Devils on Friday evening, the Winnipeg Jets look to complete their four-game highway journey with at the very least three wins out of the 4 matchups. This afternoon, they face the Carolina Hurricanes on the Lenovo Middle.
In Friday’s recreation, the Jets scored six objectives, every from a special participant within the lineup. Josh Morrissey prolonged the power-play objective streak to 3 video games along with his tenth objective of the season. Brandon Tanev, acquired earlier that day, made his “re”-debut with the Jets. Though he didn’t register any factors, he delivered a strong efficiency. Connor Hellebuyck had a comparatively simple evening, stopping 22 of 23 pictures from New Jersey, posting a .957 save share (SV%).
Carolina hasn’t performed since Thursday once they confronted the Boston Bruins. The sport was tied 2-2 with lower than 30 seconds remaining within the third interval when a Boston defenceman, Nikita Zadorov, had his stick break throughout a move try, handing the puck to Seth Jarvis. Jarvis capitalized on the chance, beating Joonas Korpisalo to attain the game-winning objective. Hurricanes goalie Pyotr Kochetkov made 32 stops, incomes a .941 SV% within the victory. Carolina appears to increase their successful streak to 4 video games.
These two groups met final month in Winnipeg, the place Eric Comrie shut out the Hurricanes, main the Jets to a 3-0 victory. Nino Niederreiter and Neal Pionk each scored power-play objectives, making it 2-0. Rasmus Kupari added some insurance coverage late within the third interval to make it 3-0, and the Jets held on for the win.
Connor Hellebuyck is anticipated to start out in objective for Winnipeg. The sport in opposition to New Jersey was one of many uncommon “simple” nights for Hellebuyck, who has been a game-changer for the Jets all season lengthy. This season, he has a 37-8-3 file, a .927 SV%, a 1.99 GAA, and 6 shutouts. Impressively, all of those stats at the moment lead all NHL goaltenders.
Frederik Andersen is anticipated to start out for Carolina. Regardless of coping with some damage points, Andersen has confirmed when wholesome that he’s nonetheless one of many NHL’s prime goaltenders. In 12 video games this season, he has a 7-5-0 file, a .911 SV%, a 2.18 GAA, and one shutout.
WPG Projected Lineup:
Connor – Scheifele – Vilardi
Ehlers – Namestnikov – Perfetti
Niederreiter – Lowry – Appleton
Tanev – Barron – Iafallo
Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Pionk
Stanley – Miller
Hellebuyck
Comrie
CAR Projected Lineup:
Svechnikov – Aho – Stankoven
Corridor – Kotkaniemi – Blake
Martinhook – Staal – Jarvis
Robinson – Jankowski – Roslovic
Slavin – Burns
Orlov – Chatfield
Gostisbehere – Walker
Andersen
Kochetkov
(Lineups are per Each day Faceoff and are topic to alter)
Up Subsequent:
Recreation time is a uncommon 4:00 p.m. CT begin time, and the sport is out there to observe on TSN3.
