The game between the Winnipeg Jets and Detroit Red Wings will take place at Canada Life Centre on Friday, March 31 at 8:00 PM ET.
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The Winnipeg Jets will welcome the Detroit Red Wings to Canada Life Centre for an NHL game on Friday. The Winnipeg Jets lost 3-0 in their last game over the Sharks. Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves for the Jets, who went 0 for 3 on the power play. Winnipeg holds the second wild card in the Western Conference by two points over Calgary and three over Nashville, which has two games in hand.
“They scored more than we did, I guess. A lot of looks. A lot of chances. I don’t know if we’re gripping it right now,” Jets defenseman Dylan DeMelo said. “Tough to win when you can’t score or are not able to pot ’em in. We’re working. Guys are trying. We had net-front traffic and tips and scrambles off that, backdoor passes, stuff like that. We’re getting quality looks. We had quality looks today, for sure. They’re just not going in for us.”
“We’ve got to be a desperate team. It’s a big-time right now. It’s down to crunch time,” Jets coach Rick Bowness said. “We’ve just got to embrace that fight and embrace it together as a group. And keep fighting. Fight with each other and put it all out there. That’s all we can do.” Sharks forward Jacob Peterson made a nice play behind the net by faking one way and going back the other to find Gregor in front. It was Gregor’s fifth goal of the season, and he extended his point streak to three games.
The Detroit Red Wings on the other hand won 3-2 against the Hurricanes in their last game. Defenseman Jake Walman scored with 3.2 seconds left to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. “Just a good play by (Andrew Copp), really,” Walman said. “It was like a go-for-broke kind of play. He knew there was not much time left, so he made a really good pass. Good screen on it.” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour was disappointed by losing two important points.
Dominik Kubalik and captain Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings and Alex Nedeljkovic made 31 saves to beat his former team. “It’s always special playing against a former team,” Nedeljkovic said. “Not any more excited or more into a zone than if it was anybody else I was playing against. Just more coincidence. I don’t know, I like playing against these guys. They like throwing pucks on net, so sometimes it’s a good stat booster, but it can go south pretty quick if you let it.”
Kubalik scored 59 seconds into the game and Larkin connected on a power play at 7:26 of the second. Larkin extended his team leads in goals with 28 and power-play goals with 15. Carolina defense partners Brent Burns and Jaccob Slavin scored 3:36 apart in the second — at 42 seconds and 4:18. “It’s obviously frustrating but I don’t think we lost the game because of the final minute,” Slavin said. “(Nedeljkovic) played well, but we’ve got to get more traffic in front. We had a couple power plays, but we didn’t get good shots.”
Mason Appleton – Morgan Barron – Kyle Connor
Dylan DeMelo – Brenden Dillon – Pierre-Luc Dubois
Nikolaj Ehlers – Connor Hellebuyck – Adam Lowry
Saku Mäenalanen – Josh Morrissey
Vladislav Namestnikov – Nino Niederreiter
Neal Pionk – Dylan Samberg
Mark Scheifele – Nate Schmidt
Kevin Stenlund
Blake Wheeler
David Perron – Alex Chiasson – Andrew Copp
Adam Erne – Dominik Kubalik – Dylan Larkin
Moritz Seider – Jake Walman – Jonatan Berggren
Ben Chiarot – Austin Czarnik
Simon Edvinsson – Robert Hägg
Matt Luff – Olli Määttä
Alex Nedeljkovic – Lucas Raymond
Pius Suter
Joseph Veleno
Winnipeg Jets: Sam Gagner, Cole Perfetti
Detroit Red Wings: Ville Husso, Filip Zadina, Robby Fabbri, Michael Rasmussen, Mark Pysyk
The game between the Winnipeg Jets and Detroit Red Wings will take place at Canada Life Centre on Friday, March 31 at 8:00 PM ET.
The match between the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers will be telecast live on Bally Sports Detroit Extra.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Detroit Extra. | March 31 (8:00 PM ET) |
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