JNGD.S8.G42 Flight Plan: Sorry Avs! We’ve Already Been Snowed In Once This Week

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The Jets continue on at home this week, after an impressively well-rounded game against the Dallas Stars on Sunday despite mid-season injuries piling up. Their opponent, the Colorado Avalanche are starting out a five game road trip in Winnipeg tonight. The trip takes them over to Calgary tomorrow, then jetting across Canada to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.

Colorado Avalanche (20-14-8 / 3rd Central)
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Winnipeg Jets (26-13-2 / 2nd Central)

January 8, 2019 – Puck drop: 7:00 PM CST
Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg, MB
TV: CBC – Radio: TSN 1290


vs NYR: 6-1 Win	Last Game	vs DAL: 5-1 WIN
1-2-2 (1 W)	Last 5 Games	2-3-0 (1 W)
MacKinnon / Landeskog – 25	Goal Leader	Patrik Laine – 24
Mikko Rantanen – 45	Assist Leader	Blake Wheeler – 45
Mikko Rantanen – 65	Points Leader	Blake Wheeler – 51
26.75% (5th)	The Power Play	28.00% (2nd)
77.18% (26th)	The Penalty Kill	80.67% (11th)
Philipp Grubauer (9-4-3 / .902 SV%)	Starting Goalie	Connor Hellebuyck (18-12-1 / .910 SV%)
W vs NYR (24-25/ .960 SV%)	Last Goalie Start	W vs DAL (26-27/ .963 SV%)
11-8-3 on road	Road v Home Record	14-6-2 @ home

Avalanche Player To Watch

#96 Mikko Rantanen – Right Wing

Unless you’ve been actively ignoring the Avalanche this season, you’ve probably heard of Mikko Rantanen. But in case you haven’t, he’s 1/3rd of Colorado’s infamous RML Line (with MacKinnon and Landeskog) and sitting at 65 points for his breakout season has him at second in the overall points leader category and only 4 points away from Nikita Kucherov first place. Mikko has also been selected to partake in the NHL All-Star Game in San Jose this year, alongside his linemate Nathan Mackinnon.

NHL Standard career statistics
				Scor	Scor	Scor			Shot	Shot	Shot	Ice
Season	Age	Tm	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	S	S%	TSA	ATOI	BLK	HIT	TK	GV
2015-16	19	COL	9	0	0	0	-7	2	9	0.0	17	8:57	11	0	1	1
2016-17	20	COL	75	20	18	38	-25	22	133	15.0	242	18:03	33	29	49	32
2017-18	21	COL	81	29	55	84	0	34	178	16.3	305	18:58	40	32	45	30
2018-19	22	COL	42	19	46	65	16	34	107	17.8	180	21:05	25	33	19	20
Career		4 yrs	207	68	119	187	-16	92	427	15.9	744	18:38	109	94	114	83

Provided by Hockey-Reference.com: View Original Table

Last Avs Game

The Colorado Avalanche finished up a home stand with the New York Rangers on January 4th with 6-1 win. By looking at the score, one would falsely believe that the Avs were back in their pre-December shape. However, the game was riddled with an utter lack of discipline from the Rangers who drew 10 penalties, including a 5 minute major from Cody McLeod for boarding Samuel Girard.

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Avalanche Notebook

The Avalanche’s last win in Bell MTS Place was January 18th 2016. Their record at Bell MTS Place is 3-9-0.
On January 4th Tyson Barrie set the franchise marker for most points by a defenseman.
Jets fans will be happy to note that Mark Scheifele is safe from Nikita Zadorov who is out with an injury.

Jets Player To Watch

#57 Tyler Myers – Center

Since the injury to Byfuglien at the end of 2018, Tyler Myers has been one of the defensemen pressed into more action and so far he’s handled the extra work quite well. After a very rocky start to the season, Myers has done very well in his own end of the ice to start limiting shots against while helping the Jets generate some offense. (Charts courtesy of HockeyViz.com)

Last Jets Game

The Jets started a two game home stand Sunday afternoon game against the Dallas Stars. After Friday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins the Jets came out flying. They played a fast paced game and proved that they were able to play a full 60 of well rounded, including a fantastic afternoon in net from Connor Hellebuyck, ultimately winning the game 5-1.

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Jets Notebook

Brian Little’s goal against the Dallas Stars on January 6th was his first in 12 games
The Jets are once again fighting to get back on top of the Central division, Nashville scored 2 points against Toronto last night

Player ratings courtesy Corsica.Hockey

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including power play and penalty kill lines by checking out our line combo page.

Colorado Avalanche Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
GABRIEL LANDESKOG Rating: 78.2#16 LW	NATHAN MACKINNON Rating: 87.9#3 C	MIKKO RANTANEN Rating: 80.6#6 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 82.26#2 FL1
TYSON JOST Rating: 70.9#99 LW	ALEXANDER KERFOOT Rating: 74.4#55 C	JT COMPHER Rating: 71.8#83 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 72.37#22 FL2
MATTHEW NIETO Rating: 70.2#110 LW	CARL SODERBERG Rating: 72.0#108 C	MATT CALVERT Rating: 70.2#109 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 70.80#29 FL3
GABRIEL BOURQUE Rating: 67.0#132 LW	SHELDON DRIES Rating: 72.0#111 C	LOGAN O’CONNOR Rating: 72.9#60 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 70.63#15 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
SAMUEL GIRARD Rating: 72.6#62 LD	ERIK JOHNSON Rating: 72.9#43 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 72.78#25 DL1
IAN COLE Rating: 71.5#81 LD	TYSON BARRIE Rating: 77.9#17 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 74.72#7 DL2
RYAN GRAVES Rating: 73.2#48 LD	PATRIK NEMETH Rating: 71.0#101 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 72.12#14 DL3

GOALIES
PHILIPP GRUBAUER Rating: 73.5#24 G1	PAVEL FRANCOUZ Rating: 69.6#49 G2

Winnipeg Jets Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
KYLE CONNOR Rating: 75.7#29 LW	MARK SCHEIFELE Rating: 85.6#5 C	BLAKE WHEELER Rating: 80.3#9 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 80.53#6 FL1
PATRIK LAINE Rating: 80.0#11 LW	BRYAN LITTLE Rating: 72.6#93 C	JACK ROSLOVIC Rating: 70.3#100 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 74.31#13 FL2
MATHIEU PERREAULT Rating: 72.6#92 LW	ADAM LOWRY Rating: 73.1#76 C	BRANDON TANEV Rating: 71.1#92 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 72.28#16 FL3
BRENDAN LEMIEUX Rating: 74.1#41 LW	ANDREW COPP Rating: 72.3#100 C	MASON APPLETON Rating: 73.3#56 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 73.23#2 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS		Defense
JOSH MORRISSEY Rating: 74.6#30 LD	JACOB TROUBA Rating: 76.6#21 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 75.59#14 DL1
BEN CHIAROT Rating: 71.0#100 LD	TYLER MYERS Rating: 74.5#29 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 72.76#16 DL2
JOE MORROW Rating: 71.5#85 LD	DMITRY KULIKOV Rating: 70.5#111 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 70.97#24 DL3

GOALIES
CONNOR HELLEBUYCK Rating: 74.4#21 G1	LAURENT BROSSOIT Rating: 66.2#65 G2

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