Time: 6:00 PM CDT
Channel: SN360, SN1, NBCSN, TVAS
Radio: TSN1290, SN590,
There will be way more made than necessary about this matchup between Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine and the 38 other guys wearing jerseys tonight at Bell MTS Place. The Winnipeg Jets and Toronto Maple Leafs meet only twice this year, first tonight in Winnipeg and then in Toronto on Saturday. So if you’re looking for a preview of the Stanley Cup Finals…WAIT NO LONGER.
Dmitry Kulikov makes his season debut, while Joe Morrow exits after being benched for much of Monday’s game.
Frederik Andersen and Connor Hellebuyck start in net. Not the same net though. That would be weird.
Winnipeg Jets Lineup:
FORWARDS:
29 Patrik Laine/ 55 Mark Scheifele/ 26 Blake Wheeler
81 Kyle Connor/ 18 Bryan Little/ 27 Nikolaj Ehlers
9 Andrew Copp/ 17 Adam Lowry/ 13 Brandon Tanev
48 Brendan Lemieux/ 28 Jack Roslovic/ 85 Mathieu Perreault
DEFENCE
44 Josh Morrissey/ 8 Jacob Trouba
7 Ben Chiarot/ 33 Dustin Byfuglien
5 Dmitry Kulikov/ 57 Tyler Myers
STARTING GOALIE
37 Connor Hellebuyck
Riding the pine: 30 Laurent Brossoit
Scratched: 19 Nic Petan, 70 Joe Morrow
Injured: Nobody
Toronto Maple Leafs Lineup:
FORWARDS
11 Zach Hyman/ 91 John Tavares/ 16 Mitch Marner
12 Patrick Marleau/ 34 Auston Matthews/ 24 Kasperi Kapanen
26 Par Lindholm/ 43 Nazem Kadri/ 28 Connor Brown
63 Tyler Ennis/ 33 Frederik Gauthier/ 32 Josh Leivo
DEFENCE
44 Morgan Rielly/ 2 Ron Hainsey
51 Jake Gardiner/ 22 Nikita Zaitsev
52 Martin Marincin/ 92 Igor Ozhiganov
STARTING GOALIE
31 Frederik Andersen
Riding the pine: 40 Garret Sparks
Scratched: 18 Andreas Johnsson, 23 Travis Dermott, 3 Justin Holl
Sitting on a beach somewhere: 29 William Nylander
