Home Sweet Home

The Jets will get to play in front of the Winnipeg faithful for the first time in the 2018-19 regular season and they do so with the challenge of looking to play a cleaner, calmer game than they had on Saturday when bad penalties and poor special teams play sunk them against the Dallas Stars. They also are hoping for a much better home opener than they had a year ago against the Toronto Maple Leafs

Los Angeles Kings (1-0-1)
@
Winnipeg Jets (1-1-0)

October 9, 2018 – Puck drop: 7:00 PM CST
Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg MB
TV: TSN3 – Radio: TSN 1290

Iafallo / Kopitar – 2	Goal Leader	Kyle Connor – 2
Toffoli / Kovalchuk – 2	Assist Leader	Scheifele / Trouba – 2
Toffoli / Iafallo – 2	Points Leader	Kyle Connor – 3
0% (Tied 23rd) 0 for 8	The Power Play	20% (Tied 15th) 1 for 5
71.43% (Tied 25th) 5 of 7	The Penalty Kill	66.67% (Tied 27th) 6 of 9
Jack Campbell (1-0-0 / .947 Sv%)	Starting Goalie	Connor Hellebuyck (1-1-0 / .922 Sv%)

Jets Notebook

• The Jets open up their home schedule tonight and they are hoping for more of the same from last season when they posted a NHL best 32-7-2 record. One of the few losses they had at home was to the Kings though on February 20 when Connor Hellebuyck had an off night with a .875 save percentage.
• The Kings have helped open things at home for the Jets before. In the 2013-14 season, the Jets defeated the Kings 5-3 thanks to a couple of quick third period goals. Overall though the Jets have struggled a bit in home openers going 3-4-0 in the seven previous, but they have won two of their last three.
• All time the Jets are 14-14-1. Blake Wheeler of course leads team scoring against the Kings with seven goals and 18 points in 26 games played. Connor hellebuyck has a history of struggling against the Kings with a 1-2-0 record and a .887 save percentage.
• No significant injuries for the Jets at the moment. Adam Lowry and Jacob Trouba did miss Monday’s practice, but Paul Maurice stated both players should be good to go tonight.

Kings Notebook

• The Kings have yet to tally on the power play yet in the first two games they played this season. They seem to be focued early on in having Ilya Kocalchuk be the trigger man which isn’t a bad idea at all, but as Jets fans can attest to back when the Jets tried to run their power play through Buff, it becomes a very easy power play to read and defend. It seems funny to say, but without having someone like a Dustin Brown around the net to cause some disturbance, or until the Kings figure out a second shooter to go on their top power play unit, it may remain one dimensional.
• Alex Iafallo has to feel a bit like a lottery winner as he has been on a line with Kovalchuk and Kopitar. The second year forward scored two goals against Detroit on Sunday – one was an empty net goal, but those count all the same – and looks pretty strong playing with two top forwards.
• The Kings allowed the fewest goals against last season – partly thanks to Jonathan Quick but they have a strong group of defensemen who will make life tough for the Jets.
• Los Angeles has had some tough injuries to deal with early on. Dustin Brown is out with a broken finger and Quick as has been well noted is out with an LBI.

Player ratings courtesy Corsica.Hockey

Winnipeg Jets Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
KYLE CONNOR Rating: 77.2#17 LW	MARK SCHEIFELE Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Rating: 83.5#8 C	BLAKE WHEELER Rating: 81.4#4 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 80.73#4 FL1
MATHIEU PERREAULT Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Rating: 74.6#51 LW	BRYAN LITTLE Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Rating: 73.5#67 C	PATRIK LAINE Rating: 81.6#3 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 76.57#3 FL2
KRISTIAN VESALAINEN	JACK ROSLOVIC Rating: 72.0#110 C	NIKOLAJ EHLERS Rating: 75.7#27 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 73.84#3 FL3
ANDREW COPP Rating: 70.7#95 LW	ADAM LOWRY Rating: 72.8#84 C	BRANDON TANEV Rating: 70.6#98 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 71.35#9 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
JOSH MORRISSEY Rating: 74.0#33 LD	JACOB TROUBA Rating: 77.2#15 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 75.63#16 DL1
BEN CHIAROT Rating: 71.6#74 LD	DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN Rating: 80.9#8 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 76.29#5 DL2
JOE MORROW Rating: 71.6#75 LD	TYLER MYERS Rating: 76.1#24 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 73.85#3 DL3

GOALIES
CONNOR HELLEBUYCK Rating: 77.2#9 G1	LAURENT BROSSOIT Rating: 69.3#56 G2

Los Angeles Kings Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
ALEX IAFALLO Rating: 72.1#72 LW	ANZE KOPITAR Rating: 81.8#10 C	ILYA KOVALCHUK Rating: 79.6#7 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 77.86#17 FL1
TANNER PEARSON Rating: 73.7#46 LW	JEFF CARTER Rating: 77.0#31 C	TYLER TOFFOLI Rating: 74.5#33 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 75.07#14 FL2
AUSTIN WAGNER Rating: 72.3#69 LW	ADRIAN KEMPE Rating: 70.0#154 C	TREVOR LEWIS Rating: 70.4#148 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 70.90#26 FL3
KYLE CLIFFORD Rating: 70.5#101 LW	MIKE AMADIO Rating: 71.5#125 C	NATE THOMPSON Rating: 67.3#184 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 69.75#25 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
DEREK FORBORT Rating: 73.5#42 LD	DREW DOUGHTY Rating: 81.1#6 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 77.31#7 DL1
JAKE MUZZIN Rating: 76.8#14 LD	ALEC MARTINEZ Rating: 73.6#39 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 75.19#8 DL2
DION PHANEUF Rating: 71.7#70 LD	OSCAR FANTENBERG Rating: 72.5#52 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 72.13#11 DL3

GOALIES
JACK CAMPBELL Rating: 70.9#38 G1	PETER BUDAJ Rating: 67.1#67 G2

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Tonight’s officials

Referees: Ian Walsh & Justin St. Pierre

Linesmen: Ryan Galloway & Travis Gawryletz