With 66% of their longest highway journey of the 12 months within the books, the Winnipeg Jets have gone 2-2-0 within the first 4 contests and at the moment are visiting the playing State to tackle the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday night.
Each Winnipeg & Vegas are coping with accidents, because the Jets are with out Dylan Samberg & Logan Stanley whereas the Knights shall be with out Mark Stone. The 2 franchises are additionally each coming in off a loss, with Winnipeg getting smacked down by the Kings (4-1) and Vegas shedding a 2-1 OT battle to the Avalanche.
Right here is how PuckPedia is predicting Winnipeg & Vegas to line up their gamers this night:
The Winnipeg Jets (18-5-0) are nonetheless the highest crew within the Central Division, however with the losses coming extra incessantly the Minnesota Wild are nipping at their heels. The Vegas Golden Knights (14-6-3) maintain on to the #1 spot within the Pacific with a slight lead on their divisional rivals.
The Knights have loads of elite offensive gamers like Jack Eichel (34 pts), Ivan Barbashev (25), Mark Stone (21), Tomas Hertl (18), & Shea Theodore (17). But they get scoring from your entire lineup as proven by Vegas’ 12 skaters with at the very least 10 factors.
The Jets even have good scoring depth with 11 skaters having the double digit level totals, led by Kyle Connor (28 pts), Mark Scheifele (26), Nikolaj Ehlers (24), & Josh Morrissey (20). Nevertheless the objectives have been a bit tougher to come back by recently, not helped by Scheifele taking part in via an damage (and presumably Ehlers too?) Neither ahead has been as noticeable as they had been earlier within the marketing campaign and if Winnipeg hopes to defeat prime groups just like the Knights, they are going to want contributions from these two. Particularly because the lack of Samberg has had a huge effect on the Jets capacity to defend entry into their defensive zone.
Lets try how the 2 franchises evaluate head-to-head based mostly on this season’s stats and take a peek at ESPN’s assessment of the masked males:
Nicely, that’s what the stats say about this upcoming Jets-Knights’ sport and it appears to counsel a fairly even affair. Nevertheless, us Winnipeg followers know that the Vegas squad has a behavior of strolling away victorious when the 2 franchises meet…so guess we must tune in at 7:30 pm CST to see what really happens.
Or……we may simply learn any of the nice sport predictions under within the remark sections. They appear to have a bent to come back true round right here. Have an excellent weekend everyone and Go Jets!!!
