After choosing up their first victory of 2025 after which getting a pair days of relaxation, the Winnipeg Jets will probably be again in motion on Friday night time when the Los Angeles Kings drop by for a go to.
Canada Life Centre would be the host for a conflict between two Western Convention powerhouses, because the Jets sit in 2nd place and the Kings maintain onto the seventh spot. Los Angeles (23-10-5) is available in to Manitoba on a scorching spree, choosing up 4 straight wins whereas Winnipeg (28-12-2) simply ended a 3 sport shedding skid towards the Nashville Predators.
The Jets lastly received a pair breaks on the harm entrance, as Josh Morrissey escaped lacking time after tweaking his decrease physique towards the Preds and is predicted to be within the lineup tonight. The opposite excellent news is that Dylan Samberg will probably be making his return from a long-term harm, suiting up for the primary time since he blocked a Steven Stamkos’ shot on Nov twenty third. Each of these are large bonuses for a Winnipeg protection that’s nonetheless with out Haydn Fleury and Colin Miller. The teaching employees has opted to maintain Logan Stanley within the lineup over Ville Heinola, touting the lame “dimension” excuse as the rationale for maintaining the the Jets’ worst defenseman on the ice.
The Kings are pretty wholesome, apart from the long-term harm to star defenseman Drew Doughty. The LA teaching employees is opting to go together with 11 forwards and seven defensemen this night, which is able to assist them give attention to what they do very nicely…play protection. Los Angeles at the moment has allowed the bottom variety of objectives towards this 12 months (96) within the NHL and continues to be wonderful at clogging up the impartial zone. That’s one thing that’s wanted for the West Coasters, as their offensive output solely places them with the eleventh lowest objectives scored.
Right here is how PuckPedia is predicting the coaches to line up their respective gamers this night:
Now that we now have seen the skaters, allow us to transfer on to trying on the goalies and the way the Jets & Kings’ numbers from this 12 months evaluate within the graphics beneath:
Within the Match Up graphic, the stats inform us that each Winnipeg & Los Angeles are pretty evenly matched with regards to objectives/pictures for or towards. The particular groups do provide some variations, with the Jets clearly being the higher group on the powerplay and the Kings a stronger penalty killing membership.
One other likeness between the 2 franchises is that goaltenders Connor Hellebuyck & Darcy Kuemper are among the many NHL’s elite masked males this season. So all which means is that this must be a tightly contested defensive contest on the CLC when the puck drops at 7 pm.
Hope everybody has a great Friday and would get pleasure from listening to any predictions, ideas, or complaints you could have about our Winnipeg Jets.
Go Winnipeg!!!!
