JNGD.S8.G31 Flight Plan: Two Of The West’s Current Best Meet In Winnipeg As Jets Host Oilers

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Both the Jets and Edmonton Oilers are 5-1-0 so far in December which is tied for the second best record in the NHL, they will meet tonight for the second of three contests this season as the Jets look to avenge a blown three goal lead back on October 16 that resulted in a 6-5 OT loss and at the same time halt the Oilers four game winning streak.

Edmonton Oilers (17-12-2 / 4th Pacific)
@
Winnipeg Jets (19-9-2 / 2nd Central)

December 13, 2018 – Puck drop: 7:00 PM CST
Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg, MB
TV: TSN 3 – Radio: TSN 1290


@ COL: 6-4 Win	Last Game	vs CHI: 6-3 Win
4-1-0 (4 W)	Last 5 Games	4-1-0 (2 W)
Connor McDavid – 17	Goal Leader	Patrik Laine – 21
Connor McDavid – 26	Assist Leader	Blake Wheeler – 33
Connor McDavid – 43	Points Leader	Blake Wheeler – 38
20.20% (14th)	The Power Play	30.30% (1st)
77.32% (23rd)	The Penalty Kill	82.61% (9th)
Mikko Koskinen (10-3-1 / .927 Sv%)	Starting Goalie	Connor Hellebuyck (13-8-1 / .910 Sv%)
W @ COL (39-43) / .907 Sv%)	Last Goalie Start	W vs PHI (36-37) / .973 Sv%)
8-8-1 On Road	Road v Home Record	11-4-2 At Home

Edmonton Oiler To Watch

#93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Center

It’s incredible to think that a team like the Oilers who – save for one good season – have been such a bottom feeding NHL club would feel like players as talented as RNH are expendable. 24 goals scored last season in 64 games played and he’s already at 10 this season in 31 games played and his presence on the Oilers second line is the only thing that prevents teams from loading up to focus on just McDavid on the first line.

Yet, in recent days – even with the Oilers starting to do well and maybe seeing a little bit of hope on the horizon, you realize that the Oilers are still the Oilers and will find a way to ruin the best things they have going for them.

Nuge is only one of four forwards on the Oilers to have more than 15 or more points this season (for comparisons sake, the Jets have six) and he has scored goals in three of his last four games.

**RNH’s Last Five Games**
					Scor	Scor	Scor
Date	Tm		Opp		G	A	PTS	PIM	S	S%	SHFT	TOI	HIT	BLK	FOW	FOL	FO%
2018-12-11	EDM	@	COL	W	2	1	3	0	5	40.0	24	18:11	1	0	4	7	36.4
2018-12-09	EDM		CGY	W	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	23	21:42	6	2	4	10	28.6
2018-12-07	EDM		MIN	W	1	0	1	0	5	20.0	23	16:28	1	1	10	8	55.6
2018-12-05	EDM	@	STL	W	1	0	1	0	3	33.3	28	26:38	1	0	5	7	41.7
2018-12-03	EDM	@	DAL	L	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	30	23:49	0	2	4	14	22.2

Provided by Hockey-Reference.com: View Original Table

Last Oilers Game

Mikko Koskinen was sharp early as the Avs peppered the Oilers with a bunch of rubber and the Oilers were able to cash in on the scoring chances they had. A crazy third period saw the Avs threaten to come back a bit, but the Oilers held on for a 6-4 win.

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Oilers Notebook

OilersNation: Oilers activate Caggiula, place Klefbom on the IR and reassign Marody to Bakersfield – The injury to Oscar Klefbom has left the Oilers scrambling to fill the hole left by their best defenseman.

Edmonton Sun: Edmonton Oilers turnaround looks like more than just a temporary spike – Yet again springs eternal in Edmonton as it does whenever the local hockey club looks somewhat competent.

On the injury front, defensemen Oscar Klefbom (hand), Andrej Sekera (Achilles) are out as are forwards Tobias Rieder (upper body) and Drake Caggiula (hand)

Winnipeg Jet To Watch

#17 Adam Lowry – Center

Son Of Dave is one point away from 100 in his NHL career and it’s still a little bit amazing at times that he is still a Winnipeg Jet when you consider that two short seasons ago he was practically on everyone’s short list of players that should be offered up to the then expansion Vegas Golden Knights.

His scoring numbers have dipped a slight bit this season as he’s become primarily the team’s go-to defensive center, but four of his last six games have seen him be a bit moe agressive with scoring chances with three registered shots on goal – he had gone 12 previous games managing one or no shots at all – and while the offense is starting to come around, he’s remained a steady presence on a Jets third line that has seen it’s share of different linemates over the last few weeks.

**Adam Lowry career statistics**
			Scor	Scor	Scor		Goal	Goal	Assi	Assi	Shot	Shot	Ice
Season	Tm	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	EV	PP	EV	PP	S	S%	ATOI	FOW	FOL	FO%	BLK	HIT	TK	GV
2014-15	WPG	80	11	12	23	46	10	0	9	3	104	10.6	13:45	406	453	47.3	32	255	24	14
2015-16	WPG	74	7	10	17	53	7	0	10	0	73	9.6	14:01	391	454	46.3	48	187	33	18
2016-17	WPG	82	15	14	29	52	10	5	9	4	122	12.3	16:03	658	637	50.8	56	217	29	24
2017-18	WPG	45	8	13	21	8	7	1	12	1	70	11.4	14:54	375	296	55.9	28	124	21	4
2018-19	WPG	30	5	4	9	13	4	0	3	0	42	11.9	14:39	272	202	57.4	19	80	10	10
Career	5 yrs	311	46	53	99	172	38	6	43	8	411	11.2	14:40	2102	2042	50.7	183	863	117	70

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Last Jets Game

The Jets had their best first period of the season against Chicago and raced out to a 4-0 lead before seeing the Hawks fight back a bit but not enough Winnipeg cruised to a 6-3 win.

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Jets Notebook

Tonight is the first game in a back to back set that will see the Jets host Edmonton and then fly off to Chicago tomorrow night to play the Blackhawks. It’s the fifth of ten back to back games the team will have this season and so far they’ve posted a record of 3-1-0 in the first games.
The Jets are six for 11 on the power play in their last two games. Granted those games were against Chicago and Philadelphia – two of the worst penalty killing teams in the league this season – but Edmonton isn’t faring much better when down a man this season either with a very pedestrian 77.32% which puts them currently 23rd in the league.

The Athletic ($): A third of the way through their season, the Winnipeg Jets get their report cards – Murat Ates breaks out the red pen and hands the Jets their grades, at around the 30 game mark of the season.

Injuries stay the same for the Jets. Defenseman Joe Morrow is out with a lower body injury and Forward Andrew Copp is out with an upper body injury.

Player ratings courtesy Corsica.Hockey
Lines as of 1:15AM CST Dec. 13, 2018

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Edmonton Oilers Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
LEON DRAISAITL Rating: 80.1#20 LW	CONNOR MCDAVID Rating: 91.2#1 C	ALEX CHIASSON Rating: 70.7#94 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 80.65#6 FL1
JUJHAR KHAIRA Rating: 71.2#98 LW	RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS Rating: 75.1#51 C	JESSE PULJUJARVI Rating: 70.1#102 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 72.12#25 FL2
VALENTIN ZYKOV Rating: 73.4#48 LW	RYAN SPOONER Rating: 71.8#116 C	TY RATTIE Rating: 70.8#93 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 71.99#15 FL3
MILAN LUCIC Rating: 69.2#129 LW	KYLE BRODZIAK Rating: 70.4#156 C	ZACK KASSIAN Rating: 68.6#115 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 69.37#24 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
DARNELL NURSE Rating: 73.5#43 LD	ADAM LARSSON Rating: 72.8#41 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 73.16#23 DL1
KRIS RUSSELL Rating: 72.5#61 LD	MATT BENNING Rating: 73.1#40 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 72.82#18 DL2
KEVIN GRAVEL Rating: 72.9#53 LD	CHRIS WIDEMAN Rating: 70.1#117 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 71.51#18 DL3

GOALIES
MIKKO KOSKINEN Rating: 71.5#37 G1	CAM TALBOT Rating: 72.2#34 G2

Winnipeg Jets Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
NIKOLAJ EHLERS Rating: 76.4#22 LW	MARK SCHEIFELE Rating: 85.2#6 C	BLAKE WHEELER Rating: 80.6#6 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 80.72#4 FL1
KYLE CONNOR Rating: 76.8#19 LW	BRYAN LITTLE Rating: 73.5#69 C	PATRIK LAINE Rating: 81.7#3 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 77.33#5 FL2
MASON APPLETON	ADAM LOWRY Rating: 73.7#66 C	BRANDON TANEV Rating: 71.5#82 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 72.57#7 FL3
BRENDAN LEMIEUX Rating: 70.9#104 LW	JACK ROSLOVIC Rating: 71.0#137 C	NICOLAS PETAN Rating: 68.6#114 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 70.17#19 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
JOSH MORRISSEY Rating: 75.5	JACOB TROUBA Rating: 77.7#16 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 75.02#17 DL1
BEN CHIAROT Rating: 71.5#90 LD	DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN Rating: 80.7#7 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 76.09#2 DL2
DMITRY KULIKOV Rating: 70.1#118 LD	TYLER MYERS Rating: 74.7#30 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 72.37#7 DL3