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JNGD.S8.G66 Flight Plan: Jets Road Trip Encounters Lightning
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Art Middleton
Mar 5, 2019, 13:55 ESTUpdated: Mar 5, 2019, 13:41 EST
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Stanley Cup preview anybody?
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
SeasonTmGPGAPTS+/-PIMSS%TSAATOIFOWFOLFO%BLKHITTKGV
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

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
Be sure to check out our Twitter feed for any late mid-day updates to the game lineups!
You can also get up to the minute lineup combos for the Jets
including power play and penalty kill lines by checking out our line combo page.

Winnipeg Jets Lines

LWCRWForwards

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 PAIRINGSDefense

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

LWCRWForwards

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 PAIRINGSDefense

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
GOALIES

ANDREI VASILEVSKIY
Rating: 80.6#2 G1

LOUIS DOMINGUE
Rating: 66.6#63 G2

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