{"id":919699,"date":"2026-10-04T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919699\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:58:14","slug":"winnipeg-jets-practice-report-illegal-curve-hockey-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919699\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Practice Report \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets opened the season with a hard-fought 4-3 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins last night. Winnipeg will get back to work today, hitting the ice in Manitoba\u2019s capital before heading out on the road for a pair of games against the Red Wings on Sunday and the Penguins on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Skate news:<\/p>\n<p>According to Kelly Moore of 680 CJOB only change this morning was Gabriel Vilardi not skating so Cole Koepke got the bump up to the second line which would seem to indicate it\u2019s likely maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Lines &amp; D Pairs:<\/p>\n<p>Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Perfetti<br \/>Ros\u00e9n \u2013 Bj\u00f6rck \u2013 Koepke (Vilardi)<br \/>Barron \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Lambert<br \/>Niederreiter \u2013 Namestnikov \u2013 Iafallo<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo<br \/>Samberg \u2013 Pionk<br \/>Ferraro \u2013 Bauer<br \/>Fleury \u2013 St. Ivany<br \/>Salomonsson (inj)<\/p>\n<p>Skinner &amp; Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>Media:<\/p>\n<p>To follow.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>As per Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Free Press \u201csays it was a maintenance day for Gabriel Vilardi, nothing to be concerned about. Arniel wouldn\u2019t disclose the rotation but said the plan was for each goalie to get a start on this two-game road trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next:<\/p>\n<p>The Jets will face the Red Wings tomorrow afternoon in Detroit with a 12 PM CT puck drop. You can start your day with all the latest Jets and Moose news in the AM Papers on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">illegalcurve.com<\/a> which are available starting at 7 AM CT and then join us after the game for the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791075494_643_logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets opened the season with a hard-fought 4-3 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins last night. Winnipeg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-919699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}