The Winnipeg Jets and the Calgary Flames meet tonight in a later than usual game, as this one gets underway at 9 pm CST, which is a not-that-early 8 pm in Calgary.
Connor Hellebuyck guards the net for Winnipeg, with David Rittich serving as his counterpart tonight. Rittich has put up some very good numbers (7-1-0, .931 save percentage, 1.93 goals against average) for the Flames this year, and usurped Mike Smith as the team’s starting goalie.
The Flames are coming off of a 7-2 stomping of the Vegas Golden Knights, while Winnipeg most recently played and beat the Vancouver Canucks by a 6-3 score.
Winnipeg Jets Lineup:
FORWARDS:
27 Nikolaj Ehlers/ 55 Mark Scheifele/ 26 Blake Wheeler
81 Kyle Connor/ 18 Bryan Little/ 29 Patrik Laine
9 Andrew Copp/ 17 Adam Lowry/ 13 Brandon Tanev
19 Nic Petan/ 28 Jack Roslovic/ 85 Mathieu Perreault
DEFENCE
44 Josh Morrissey/ 8 Jacob Trouba
7 Ben Chiarot/ 33 Dustin Byfuglien
70 Joe Morrow/ 57 Tyler Myers
STARTING GOALIE
37 Connor Hellebuyck
Riding the pine: 30 Laurent Brossoit
Scratched: 83 Sami Niku, 48 Brendan Lemieux
Injured: 5 Dmitry Kulikov,
Calgary Flames Lineup:
FORWARDS
13 Johnny Gaudreau/ 23 Sean Monahan/ 28 Elias Lindholm
19 Matthew Tkachuk/ 11 Mikael Backlund/ 93 Sam Bennett
67 Michael Frolik/ 10 Derek Ryan/ 18 James Neal
29 Dillon Dube/ 77 Mark Jankowski/ 21 Garnet Hathaway
DEFENCE
5 Mark Giordano/ 7 T.J. Brodie
55 Noah Hanifin/ 24 Travis Hamonic
8 Juuso Valimaki/ 4 Rasmus Andersson
STARTING GOALIE
33 David Rittich
Riding the pine: 41 Mike Smith
Scratched: 27 Austin Czarnik, 26 Michael Stone, 6 Dalton Prout
Injured: Nobody