Time: 6:30 PM CDT
Channel: TSN3, TSN2, RDS
Radio: TSN1290
So, I took a wild stab at the lines, because Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler, Jacob Trouba, Josh Morrissey and Adam Lowry are not starting tonight. Marko Dano, Shawn Matthias, Jack Roslovic, Dustin Byfuglien and Sami Niku (!!!!!) are.
Steve Mason is in net, with Eric Comrie backing up. It’ll be a pretty skilled healthy scratch list tonight.
Will Niku score in his debut?
Will Laine return to his sniper ways?
Will it amaze Derek how little this game means, other than maybe delaying Nashville’s attempt to win the division?
Tune in tonight, same Jets time (6:30 p.m. CDT) same Jets channel (TSN3)!
Winnipeg Jets (49-20-10)
FORWARDS
27 Nikolaj Ehlers/ 25 Paul Stastny/ 29 Patrik Laine
81 Kyle Connor/ 18 Bryan Little/ 40 Joel Armia
85 Mathieu Perreault/ 52 Jack Roslovic/ 56 Marko Dano
16 Shawn Matthias/ 9 Andrew Copp/ 13 Brandon Tanev
DEFENCE
7 Ben Chiarot/ 33 Dustin Byfuglien
70 Joe Morrow/ 57 Tyler Myers
83 Sami Niku/ 3 Tucker Poolman
STARTING GOALIE
35 Steve Mason
Riding the pine: 1 Eric Comrie
Scratched: 37 Connor Hellebuyck, 8 Jacob Trouba, 44 Josh Morrissey, 17 Adam Lowry, 26 Blake Wheeler, 55 Mark Scheifele
Injured: 15 Matt Hendricks (lower body, out six to eight weeks), 5 Dmitry Kulikov (back, three to four weeks from March 8), 39 Toby Enstrom (out until the playoffs)
Montreal Canadiens (28-39-12)
FORWARDS
41 Paul Byron — 92 Jonathan Drouin — 11 Brendan Gallagher
27 Alex Galchenyuk — 25 Jacob De La Rose — 62 Artturi Lehkonen
38 Nikita Scherbak — 49 Logan Shaw — 45 Kerby Rychel
20 Nicolas Deslauriers — 34 Michael McCarron — 43 Daniel Carr
DEFENCE
21 David Schlemko — 26 Jeff Petry
22 Karl Alzner — 58 Noah Juulsen
28 Mike Reilly — 36 Brett Lernout
STARTING GOALIE
31 Carey Price
Riding the pine: 37 Antti Niemi
Scratched: 8 Jordie Benn, 42 Byron Froese
Injured: 24 Phillip Danault (neck, day to day), 65 Andrew Shaw (upper body, day to day), 54 Charles Hudon (undisclosed, day to day), 83 Ales Hemsky (concussion, indefinite), 67 Max Pacioretty (knee, out four to six weeks from March 3), 6 Shea Weber (foot, might be ready for next season), 53 Victor Mete (finger, four to six weeks from March 3)
