The Winnipeg Jets play their first road game of the 2018 pre-season tonight when they travel to Edmonton to take on the Oilers at Rogers Place…The Jets defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Monday night at Bell MTS Place to begin their seven-game pre-season slate…Winnipeg is back home tomorrow to welcome the Calgary Flames for its third game of the pre-season.
Sept. 20 Game Notes at Edmonton Oilers
Second Act
Aside from having the same goaltending tandem as Monday’s game against Minnesota, 10 players that suited up on Monday are scheduled to play tonight, including four of the six defencemen – Tucker Poolman, Logan Stanley, Joe Morrow, and Sami Niku…Forwards Seth Griffith, Jack Roslovic, Kristian Vesalainen, Brendan Lemieux, Marko Dano, and Mason Appleton are playing their second game as well.
Impressive Impression
Goaltender Laurent Brossoit, who was signed as a free agent on July 1 after playing the first five seasons of his professional career in the Oilers organization, stopped 39 of 40 shots in Monday’s win against Minnesota in his Jets pre-season debut…In 28 regular season games with the Oilers, he made 39 or more saves only once – his NHL debut on Apr. 9/15 at SJS when he stopped 49 of 51 shots.
First Tallies
The Jets received their two goals in Monday’s win from unlikely sources, as Marko Dano and Joe Morrow did the scoring…Dano had two goals in 23 games last season, while Morrow had six goals in 56 games with the Jets and Montreal Canadiens.
Orange Crushed
The Jets went a perfect 3-0 against the Oilers last season, including a pair of victories in Edmonton…The Jets outscored the Oilers 14-5 in the three games…Nikolaj Ehlers (3G, 2A) and Blake Wheeler (1G, 4A) paced the Jets against the Oilers last season with five points in three games…Ehlers had a hat trick in Winnipeg’s first win of the season on Oct. 9 in Edmonton…Mark Scheifele also had four points (1G, 3A) in two games against Edmonton last season…The Jets are 8-5-0 in their last 13 regular season games against the Oilers…Since the franchise relocated to Winnipeg in 2011, Wheeler leads the Jets in scoring against Edmonton with 14 points (2G, 14A) in 16 games.
Road Start
For the first time since 2016, the Jets start the regular season on the road, as they begin the 2018-19 campaign at Enterprise Center in St. Louis against the Blues on Oct. 4 and follow up with their second game in Dallas against the Stars on Oct. 6…However, Winnipeg plays the bulk of their October schedule at Bell MTS Place, as the team has seven of their first 10 games at home…The Jets have a season-high six-game homestand from Oct. 14-24.
Pre-Season Sked
Starting tonight, the Jets begin a stretch of six games in eight days, including three back-to-back sets …Winnipeg plays their usual pre-season counterparts twice each – Minnesota, Calgary, and Edmonton – and host the New Jersey Devils on Sept. 27 in their lone pre-season game against an Eastern Conference opponent.
Euro Bound
Both the Jets and the Oilers are scheduled to play in Europe during the regular season, albeit against different opponents…The Oilers are slated to play the New Jersey Devils in Gothenburg, Sweden to open the regular season on Oct. 6, while the Jets are scheduled to face the Florida Panthers in Helsinki, Finland on Nov. 1 and 2.