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Sixteen video games stay within the season for the Winnipeg Jets as they start a three-game Pacific Division street journey tonight, taking up the Seattle Kraken at Local weather Pledge Enviornment.
Simply 4 factors shy of hitting triple digits, the Jets look to increase their win streak to 3 video games. Of their final matchup, they battled the Dallas Stars at residence, securing a 4-1 victory. The highest trio of Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, and Gabriel Vilardi shined as soon as once more. Dylan Samberg opened the scoring along with his fifth objective of the season, Connor added two objectives—his thirty fourth and thirty fifth—to make it 3-0, and Morgan Barron netted his sixth to increase the result in 4-0. Connor Hellebuyck had his shutout spoiled late within the sport however nonetheless managed 24 saves for a .960 SV%.
Seattle presently sits seventh within the Pacific Division, 11 factors exterior of a wild card spot. The Kraken are coming off a 4-2 win over one other workforce pushing for a wild card berth, the Utah Hockey Membership. Eeli Tolvanen scored twice (his twentieth and twenty first), Brandon Montour netted his sixteenth, and Kaapo Kakko added his eleventh. Philipp Grubauer made 23 stops, posting a .920 SV%.
Tonight’s sport will conclude the season sequence between the 2 golf equipment. Winnipeg has received each earlier matchups, first with a 4-3 extra time win in October, adopted by a 2-1 regulation victory in January.
On paper, these two groups are in very completely different positions. Nonetheless, Seattle isn’t a workforce to take flippantly, particularly given the ability and firepower they possess. Each earlier conferences this season have been determined by only one objective, so count on one other tight contest tonight.
WPG Projected Lineup:
Connor – Scheifele – Vilardi
Ehlers – Namestnikov – Perfetti
Niederreiter – Lowry – Appleton
Tanev – Barron – Iafallo
Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Schenn
Fleury – Miller
Comrie
Hellebuyck
SEA Projected Lineup:
Schwartz – Beniers – Kakko
Tolvanen – Stephenson – Eberle
Nyman – McCann – Burakovsky
Kartye – Wright – Eyssimont
Dunn – Larsson
Oleksiak – Montour
Mahura – Evans
Daccord
Grubauer
Up Subsequent:
Puck drop tonight is at 8:00 p.m. CT, and the sport is on the market to observe on TSN3.
