Winnipeg Jets (6-3-1 / 4th Central)
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Detroit Red Wings (1-6-2 / 8th Atlantic)

October 26, 2018 – Puck drop: 6:00 PM CST
Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI
TV: TSN3 – Radio: TSN 1290

vs TOR: 4-2 Loss	Last Game	vs CAR: 4-1 L
3-1-1 (1 L)	Last 5 Games	1-4-0 (1 W)
Mark Scheifele – 5	Goal Leader	Dylan Larkin – 4
Blake Wheeler – 7	Assist Leader	Gustav Nyquist – 6
Mark Scheifele – 10	Points Leader	Nyquist / Larkin – 7
32.14% (4th)	The Power Play	24.14% (13th)
82.82% (8th)	The Penalty Kill	80.56% (14th)
Laurent Brossoit (2-0-0 / .955 Sv%)	Starting Goalie	Jimmy Howard (1-4-2 / .907 Sv%)
W vs ARI (42-45/ .933 Sv%)	Last Goalie Start	L vs CAR (36-38 / .947 Sv%)
1-2-0 on Road	Road v Home Record	0-2-1 @ Home

Jets Notebook

• The Jets last season split the two game set against Detroit, losing on the road in December by a 5-1 score, but rebounding at home two months later with a 4-2 win. The Jets have a 6-3-1 record against the Wings in their last ten games and all-time the Jets are 10-11-3 against them.
• Dustin Byfuglien has played the Wings 35 times in his career and along with Bryan Little, leads the Jets in points scored against Detroit with 14. Big Buff has seven goals and seven assists while Little has picked up five goals and nine helpers.
• At least the Jets power play has been pretty good? It’s scored in each of the last six games they played at home. Mark Scheifele and Patrik Laine each have three goals with the man advantage.
• Blake Wheeler has a four game points streak going. Kyle Connor and Scheifele each have three game point streaks.
• Dustin Byfuglien still needs just one point to hit the 500 points mark for his NHL career.

Red Wings Notebook

• After a solid OT win against Florida on Saturday, the Red Wings played an absolute clunker against the Hurricanes on Monday that was only made to look reasonably ok thanks to the goaltending of Jimmy Howard.
• Jacob de la Rose will make his Red Wings debut tonight. The 23 year old who was a 2nd round pick (34th overall) back in the 2013 NHL Draft was claimed from the Montreal Canadiens last week. The lanky 6’3″ forward never truly got a shot with the Canadiens as he appeared in 55 games for the habs last season, picking up four goals and 12 points.
• Also making his season debut in Detroit tonight will be defenseman Mike Green who had off-season neck surgery to repair a herniated disc.
• The Red Wings are struggling a great deal so far this season as you can likely tell by their last place in the league standings position. Their -16 goal differential is the worst in the NHL. They are in the bottom five of average shots per game and goals for. They have also given up the most goals against early on this season.
• How bad are things in Detroit right now? Arby’s has taken pity on Wings fans (or depending on your opinion on Arby’s, decided to sunject them to even more torture) by offering free curly fries any time the Wings score three or more goals in a game. Previously, the bar was set on a Wings player getting a hat trick to earn the spuds. The Red Wings went all of last season without a single player scoring three times in a game.
• Defenseman Dan Dekeyser (hand) and winger Evgeny Svechnikov (knee) are both on the Wings IR list.

Winnipeg Jets Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
PATRIK LAINE Rating: 80.7#4 LW	MARK SCHEIFELE Rating: 83.5#7 C	BLAKE WHEELER Rating: 79.9#7 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 81.37#4 FL1
KYLE CONNOR Rating: 76.6#24 LW	BRYAN LITTLE Rating: 74.1#60 C	NIKOLAJ EHLERS Rating: 75.0#31 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 75.24#9 FL2
ANDREW COPP Rating: 71.6#87 LW	ADAM LOWRY Rating: 74.6#54 C	BRANDON TANEV Rating: 70.7#94 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 72.32#17 FL3
BRENDAN LEMIEUX Rating: 73.0#55 LW	JACK ROSLOVIC Rating: 71.2#145 C	MATHIEU PERREAULT Rating: 74.8#36 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 72.99#1 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
JOSH MORRISSEY Rating: 75.0#24 LD	JACOB TROUBA Rating: 77.8#15 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 76.44#11 DL1
BEN CHIAROT Rating: 71.8#79 LD	DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN Rating: 81.2#7 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 76.53#4 DL2
DMITRY KULIKOV Rating: 70.3#112 LD	TYLER MYERS Rating: 75.1#29 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 72.69#5 DL3

GOALIES
CONNOR HELLEBUYCK Rating: 76.1#12 G1	LAURENT BROSSOIT Rating: 66.8#63 G2

Detroit Red Wings Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
TYLER BERTUZZI Rating: 72.7#68 LW	DYLAN LARKIN Rating: 76.3#39 C	DARREN HELM Rating: 71.3#140 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 73.42#29 FL1
ANDREAS ATHANASIOU Rating: 74.0#62 LW	FRANS NIELSEN Rating: 71.6#131 C	THOMAS VANEK Rating: 72.1#79 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 72.56#24 FL2
GUSTAV NYQUIST Rating: 74.2#39 LW	LUKE GLENDENING Rating: 69.7#180 C	ANTHONY MANTHA Rating: 73.4#55 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 72.42#15 FL3
JUSTIN ABDELKADER Rating: 69.3#124 LW	JACOB DE LA ROSE Rating: 67.4#196 C	MARTIN FRK Rating: 69.6#102 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 68.77#30 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
DENNIS CHOLOWSKI Rating: 73.1#1 LD	MIKE GREEN Rating: 73.6#37 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 73.35#24 DL1
JONATHAN ERICSSON Rating: 69.0#126 LD	TREVOR DALEY Rating: 70.1#115 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 69.56#31 DL2
NIKLAS KRONWALL Rating: 71.1#96 LD	NICK JENSEN Rating: 71.1#77 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 71.08#20 DL3

GOALIES
JIMMY HOWARD Rating: 74.3#21 G1	JONATHAN BERNIER Rating: 68.9#58 G2

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