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Have to wonder if this is Bowness’ last year behind the bench? 69 years old, had already retired after Dallas before we called him back, and with his wife’s health issue and now this, plus a ready made replacement with Arniel in play, he may decide that slowing down is the way to go now.

Plenty of room on the existing screens if they would use them properly, instead of half with incorrect stats and ads.

Just a brutal pass leads to a Tyler Two-folli. It must be awful being a Blue Jackets fan. Nice to spread out the minutes with all 4 lines tonight. Not perfect, but more than good enough to move back into top spot in the Central.

No Floyd tonight, then Barron gets one wiped out. Jets should focus on limiting shots and working the cycle this period.

Vlad with the backboard carom snipe makes it 5. Paging Andrea!

Stanley with a cannon from the point and Jets blowing it open now. To be fair, only his 16th game this year, so a better pace than DeMelo, Schmidt, and Samberg.

Oh boy, if the Toffoli-Monahan -Ehlers line can get going and Valardi can get healthy, look out.

Another Jet left unguarded in the slot and Fly doubles the Winnipeg lead. Hellebuyck positionally very solid so far, a sign he is on his game, making tough saves look easy with his size as he swallows up shots.

Connor with the early ice breaker. Jets a truly different team when playing with the lead. 28-3-1 when scoring first. 14-16-4 when scored on first.

I was there.

Brossoit with back-to-back goose eggs! Maybe he should start the next one on Columbus too.

Warming up the Floyd.

I will be at the Bomber fireside chat with Streveler and Bryant tonight, so taping the game and will view on tape delay, so no live scoring commentary from me tonight.

Ok, I’ll show myself out for that title. Game time: 7:00 pm, TSN3 The story: The up-and-down Jets try to climb back atop the Central standings against the muscular waterfowl of Disneyland as they were known in a past iteration. Scheifele possibly back after his turn upchucking the flu bug as it washes over the whole team, but Vilardi on the shelf for a while now with a bum spleen. Brossy gets the start apparently. Anyone who has better luck than I trying to post the projected starting line-up, please do so. A win tonight and a 3 way tie for Central #1 spot, with the Jets holding the tie-breaker.

JMO, but with Vilardi out for a while, I would keep Perfetti in but move him to the second line to spark him hopefully. Run Ehlers-Scheifele-Connor as 1, Perfetti-Monahan-Toffoli 2, the usual 3rd line of Nino-Lowry-Appleton, and put Iafallo on with Barron and Namestnikov with Kupari or Gus as the back-up there. We will need more scoring, and Perfetti is better in that role than 4th line grinder/energy guy. Iafallo is more versatile (as is Namestnikov) and could provide a positive edge on the bottom 4. Just my random thoughts, and I am loathe to question a coach of Bones’ tenure and success. Nice to have these depth options though.

Just replace “Watson-Tatum 2” with “The Crow”, and I have one theory:

How does this happen after the trade deadline?

Three categories of hobbies for me. Activity-wise, enjoy golf and world travel. In terms of mental activities, enjoy crosswords and other word puzzles (Sudoku or Wordle/Quordle/Canukle/Puckle/Puckduko stuff, although it can get to be a bit much) to keep my brain sharp. Also enjoy jigsaw puzzles, especially the 3D ones (I have a city full of various buildings on display, and a 4 puzzle New York City skyline). As for community hobbies, I like organizing and sports-related stuff, so I help with community BINGO and work with the Bison sports programs in tournament scheduling and stats keeping. Have also organized various curling leagues and school volleyball tournaments.

At this moment, projected game roster is the same as it was last time out.

Preds 10-0-2 in their last 12, but to be fair only 3 of those games came against playoff teams. In fact, the winning percentage of their opponents during that time (removing the phony loser point inflating the records) is .442.

Another shutout!

Goalposts 4 Jets 3 Caps 0. 4th line the only one without a goal tonight but playing very well. Namestnikov may be the hardest worker out there tonight.

Scheifele with some nice odd man rush passes, and KFC converts one, Jets now in control 3-0.

Iafallo gets the goal, but that may be reviewed before game’s end. Jets skating circles around the Caps right now.

And the player who sounds the most like a Batman punch opens the scoring.