After a pretty bad February (we’ll stop short of calling it a disaster, though it kind of felt like it) the Jets have had a decent start to March with wins over Nashville at home and Columbus on the road. Tonight they’ll get a true indication of where they are at as a team with about a month left in the season as they pay a visit to the league leading Tampa Bay Lightning.

Winnipeg Jets (39-22-4 / 1st Central)
@
Tampa Bay Lightning (50-12-4 / 1st Atlantic)

March 5, 2019 – Puck drop: 6:30 PM CST
Amalie Arena – Tampa Bay, FL
TV: TSN3 – Radio: TSN 1290


5-2 W @ CBJ	Last Game	5-1 W vs OTT
3-2-0 (2 W)	Last 5 Games	4-1-0 (1 W)
MARK SCHEIFELE – 32	Goal Leader	Brayden Point – 36
BLAKE WHEELER – 63	Assist Leader	Nikita Kucherov – 75
BLAKE WHEELER – 80	Points Leader	Nikita Kucherov – 106
24.88% (7TH)	The Power Play	28.90% (1st)
78.82% (22nd)	The Penalty Kill	86.05% (1st)
Connor Hellebuyck (28-18-2 / .911 SV%)	Starting Goalie	Andrei Vasilevskiy (30-7-4 / .931 SV%)
W @ CBJ (40-42 / .952 SV%)	Last Goalie Start	W vs OTT (36-37 / .973 SV%)
17-14-0 ON ROAD	Road v Home Record	27-5-2 AT HOME

Winnipeg is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay – Courtesy of Oddshark

Jets Player To Watch

#26 Blake Wheeler – Right Wing

What can the captain do for an encore tonight? Blake Wheeler’s hat trick helped lock up a win in Columbus on Sunday night and a fourth goal into an empty net was just icing on the cake (not to mention 100K for a Safeway Shop & Win contestant) as he earned his first four goal game of his career. He was named the NHL’s second star on Monday with five goals and eight points over the last three games played this past week.

Last Jets Game

Blake Wheeler supplied the offensive fire power and Connor Hellebuyck made 40 saves – many of them key while the teams were tied up at 2-2 midway through the game – to help earn the Jets a second win in a row with a 5-2 win in Columbus.

Lightning Player To Watch

#9 Tyler Johnson – Forward

The Lightning are full of star players such as Stamkos, Kucherov, Point, Hedman and Vasilevskiy so it’s little wonder that Tyler Johnson gets overlooked a lot of times as a key part of this Lighting club.

**Tyler Johnson NHL career statistics**
Season	Tm	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	S	S%	TSA	ATOI	FOW	FOL	FO%	BLK	HIT	TK	GV
2012-13	TBL	14	3	3	6	3	4	11	27.3	28	13:04	72	49	59.5	4	18	2	4
2013-14	TBL	82	24	26	50	23	26	181	13.3	313	18:47	614	661	48.2	37	55	23	41
2014-15	TBL	77	29	43	72	33	24	203	14.3	333	17:14	508	569	47.2	35	63	24	30
2015-16	TBL	69	14	24	38	4	20	167	8.4	292	17:08	479	507	48.6	25	46	19	31
2016-17	TBL	66	19	26	45	-5	28	130	14.6	250	18:49	583	539	52.0	30	46	26	32
2017-18	TBL	81	21	29	50	3	24	186	11.3	311	17:00	360	359	50.1	47	48	39	23
2018-19	TBL	64	22	17	39	9	22	132	16.7	218	16:15	193	208	48.1	24	40	12	23
Career	7 yrs	453	132	168	300	70	148	1010	13.1	1745	17:25	2809	2892	49.3	202	316	145	184

Provided by Hockey-Reference.com: View Original Table

Last Lightning Game

The Lightning flexed their offensive muscle scored a bunch in the second to pull away from a rather scrappy Ottawa Senators club on Saturday night with the help of goals from four different defensemen.

Player ratings courtesy Corsica.Hockey

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Winnipeg Jets Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
PATRIK LAINE Rating: 79.4#15 LW	MARK SCHEIFELE Rating: 83.5#6 C	BLAKE WHEELER Rating: 80.8#7 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 81.24#2 FL1
KYLE CONNOR Rating: 77.1#25 LW	KEVIN HAYES Rating: 76.3#46 C	NIKOLAJ EHLERS Rating: 77.4#23 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 76.90#9 FL2
BRANDON TANEV Rating: 71.4#103 LW	ANDREW COPP Rating: 72.2#96 C	BRYAN LITTLE Rating: 74.0#50 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 72.52#13 FL3
MATHIEU PERREAULT Rating: 71.9#90 LW	PAR LINDHOLM Rating: 68.6#176 C	JACK ROSLOVIC Rating: 69.6#112 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 70.02#22 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS	Defense
NATHAN BEAULIEU Rating: 71.1#95 LD	JACOB TROUBA Rating: 76.8#23 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 73.92#18 DL1
DMITRY KULIKOV Rating: 69.2#122 LD	TYLER MYERS Rating: 73.6#39 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 71.41#26 DL2
BEN CHIAROT Rating: 71.3#90 LD	SAMI NIKU Rating: 72.4#63 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 71.86#16 DL3

GOALIES
CONNOR HELLEBUYCK Rating: 73.8#21 G1	LAURENT BROSSOIT Rating: 68.1#57 G2

Tampa Bay Lightning Lines

LW	C	RW	Forwards
ONDREJ PALAT Rating: 74.5#43 LW	STEVEN STAMKOS Rating: 83.3#8 C	YANNI GOURDE Rating: 75.1#39 RW	FL1 Rating Rating: 77.63#18 FL1
TYLER JOHNSON Rating: 73.8#49 LW	BRAYDEN POINT Rating: 83.3#7 C	NIKITA KUCHEROV Rating: 90.3#1 RW	FL2 Rating Rating: 82.48#1 FL2
ALEX KILLORN Rating: 73.3#71 LW	ANTHONY CIRELLI Rating: 74.5#58 C	J.T. MILLER Rating: 74.0#62 RW	FL3 Rating Rating: 73.94#5 FL3
ADAM ERNE Rating: 69.8#129 LW	CEDRIC PAQUETTE Rating: 68.9#173 C	MATHIEU JOSEPH Rating: 71.1#88 RW	FL4 Rating Rating: 69.93#25 FL4

DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS	Defense
VICTOR HEDMAN Rating: 80.1#5 LD	DAN GIRARDI Rating: 72.3#66 RD	DL1 Rating Rating: 76.18#11 DL1
RYAN MCDONAGH Rating: 76.8#16 LD	ERIK CERNAK Rating: 72.9#52 RD	DL2 Rating Rating: 74.88#8 DL2
BRAYDON COBURN Rating: 71.9#75 LD	MIKHAIL SERGACHEV Rating: 74.4#31 RD	DL3 Rating Rating: 73.18#5 DL3