Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nWinnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Jets enter their Saturday afternoon matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks riding a five-game winning streak after Thursday\u2019s explosive 8-3 road victory over the Dallas Stars. <\/p>\n
Center Mark Scheifele leads the surge after recording two goals and an assist in Dallas to reach 929 career points, tying Dale Hawerchuk for the all-time Jets\/Thrashers franchise scoring record. Trade acquisition Dawson Mercer has also found his scoring touch with back-to-back two-goal games, helping Winnipeg outscore opponents 25-14 during their recent turnaround. <\/p>\n
On the injury front, defenseman Dylan DeMelo was placed on injured reserve and listed as week-to-week with a lower-body injury suffered against the Stars, prompting the club to recall Henry Thrun from the Manitoba Moose. Forward Nino Niederreiter is projected to draw back into the lineup against Chicago to replace Isak Ros\u00e9n, who got banged up during Thursday\u2019s win. Puck drop at the United Center is scheduled on Sportsnet as Winnipeg looks to avenge an early-season overtime loss to the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n
Chicago Blackhawks News & Notes:<\/p>\n
Center Frank Nazar powered the comeback against Buffalo with two goals, including a power-play marker that extended Chicago\u2019s unbeaten streak in regulation (5-0-1) whenever they score with the man advantage. <\/p>\n
Rookie winger Roman Kantserov also recorded an assist to push his point streak to nine games, becoming just the fourth rookie in franchise history to achieve a run of that length alongside Steve Larmer, Jonathan Toews, and Jeremy Roenick. Veteran winger Patrick Kane successfully returned to the lineup against the Sabres after missing three games with an upper-body injury, logging nearly 18 minutes of ice time and voicing strong support for head coach Jeff Blashill. <\/p>\n
On the blue line, defenseman Bowen Byram skated in a non-contact jersey during Friday\u2019s optional practice as he prepares to miss his 13th consecutive game with an upper-body injury. Meanwhile, forward Teuvo Ter\u00e4v\u00e4inen is projected to be a healthy scratch against Winnipeg as Chicago aims for its second straight win over the Jets this season.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Vilardi
Perfetti \u2013 Yager \u2013 Mercer
Iafallo \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Bjorck
Koepke \u2013 Barron \u2013 Niederreiter<\/p>\n
Morrissey \u2013 Ferraro
Samberg \u2013 Pionk
Fleury \u2013 Bauer<\/p>\n
Stevenson
Daws<\/p>\n
Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Kantserov \u2013 Bedard \u2013 Bertuzzi
Mangiapane \u2013 Frondell \u2013 Donato
Moore \u2013 Nazar \u2013 Kane
Smith \u2013 Greene \u2013 Greenway<\/p>\n
Cole \u2013 Levshunov
Vlasic \u2013 Rinzel
Kaiser \u2013 Del Mastro<\/p>\n
Knight
Commesso<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n
Mark Scheifele: Scheifele enters Saturday with 929 career points, needing just one point to break his tie with Dale Hawerchuk for the all-time Jets franchise scoring record. He is riding a hot stretch with four goals and four assists over his last four games.<\/p>\n
Dawson Mercer: Acquired from New Jersey in late October, Mercer has quickly found his groove in Winnipeg\u2019s top six with back-to-back two-goal games. He has tallied five goals and an assist over his past four games.<\/p>\n
Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n
Roman Kantserov: The 22-year-old rookie is riding a nine-game point streak and can tie Steve Larmer and Jonathan Toews for the longest rookie point streak in Blackhawks history (10 games) with a point against Winnipeg. He leads Chicago with nine goals through 19 games.<\/p>\n
Frank Nazar: Nazar powered Chicago\u2019s slump-busting win over Buffalo on Thursday with two goals, giving him four goals over his last five games. He also scored against the Jets in their first meeting back in October.<\/p>\n
Next game<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets \u2013 December 5 vs Buffalo Sabres
Chicago Blackhawks \u2013 December 6 vs Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets (9-8-3) at Chicago Blackhawks (5-13-1)Venue: United CenterDate: Today \u2013 Saturday, November 14Time: 3:30 pm ESTHow To…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":970386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[266454,49,48,756,69758,96111,5239,150194,448,168422,100641,22073,449],"class_list":["post-970385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-2026-27-nhl-season","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-dawson-mercer","tag-frank-nazar","tag-hockey","tag-mark-scheifele","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-roman-kantserov","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970385","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=970385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}