The Winnipeg Jets are back on a tiny tear through their schedule winning four of the last five games, three of which being by one goal. With leading scorer Mark Scheifele out, it’d be a reasonable prediction that scoring would go down, however, Patrik Laine continues to tear up the league putting up a .82 PPG, and the scoring comparables as a teenager of Joe Sakic, Mike Modano and Eric Lindros…
As to what happened last time the Jets and Wings met…I was at a very good game.
Lineups:
Detroit Red Wings:
Tomas Tatar – Henrik Zetterberg – Anthony Mantha
Tomas Jurco – Frans Nielsen – Luke Glendening
Gustav Nyquist – Riley Sheahan – Thomas Vanek
Drew Miller – Dylan Larkin – Steve Ott
Dan DeKeyser – Mike Green
Jonathan Ericsson – Xavier Ouellet
Niklas Kronwall – Brian Lashoff
Petr Mrazek
Jared Coreau
Winnipeg Jets:
Nikolaj Ehlers – Bryan Little – Patrik Laine
Matthieu Perreault – Blake Wheeler – Drew Stafford
Andrew Copp – Adam Lowry – Marko Dano
Brandon Tanev – Alex Burmistrov – Chris Thorburn
Josh Morrissey – Dustin Byfuglien
Tobias Enstrom – Jacob Trouba
Ben Chiarot – Paul Postma
Connor Hellebuyck
Michael Hutchinson
Where to Watch:
7:00 PM on TSN3 and to listen, TSN 1290
Who Do We Hate?:
Steve Ott. Easy.
Also coach Jeff Blashill for putting Larkin on the fourth line.
Predictions:
Jets Win 4-2
Goals by: Wheeler, Laine, Enstrom and Dano.
Red Wings Goals by: Mantha and Glendening
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