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The Check In: Winnipeg Jets Official Pregame Show
The Check In 03.12.26 - Rangers at Jets
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The Jets look to bounce back from a tough 4-1 loss to Anaheim when they welcome the Rangers to town. Sara and Jamie will get you set for puck drop, plus they will welcome Mitchell Clinton from 680 CJOB to the show.
I should have got a haircut. Not happy with it. Where am I there, Mr. Brown? Nailed it. First time I haven't been at the back. Nino, I grew. I grew. Can't all have hair like you, Adam. Sorry. Can't have nice hair like you, Adam. Taser, besides, you're in the hair, Taser. I know you're probably used to being in the front rows for a while, eh? When have you not been in the front row, honestly? Good job, everybody.
SPEAKER_03Oh, there he goes. I'm Sarah Lesky is Jamie Thomas. Thanks so much, everybody, for joining us for another edition of Check In.
SPEAKER_05Wait a second. How did you know I was turning the mute button off?
SPEAKER_03Oh why can't I hear you? Can you hear me?
SPEAKER_05Oh yeah. Can you hear me? Test, test, test.
SPEAKER_03All right. Well, you take it away, Jamie.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Well, the unfortunate part is we're having uh technical issues again for some reason. Sarah cannot be heard or he can't hear people. Um, what do you mean? Sarah left me unsupervised again. That's yeah. See, now she's just nodding her head. Now we just have we'll just talk to Sarah through your guys' comments. Anyways, I want to know something. Sarah's not feeling well today, so that's why she's not here. And I've always wondered what you guys tell me in the in the chat group right now, as we get set for the Jets, the New York Rangers here tonight, game 64 of the of the Jets regular season. Sarah's not feeling well. So when I was growing up, I would always go to my mom and I'd tell her I wasn't feeling well. And then the best part of it was if my dad caught wind of it, he'd be like, Can you walk? And I'd be like, Yes, dad, I can walk. And he's like, Well, then you can go to school. So, my question to you guys is who would you go to at home? And like if you were sick and you wanted to stay home from school, who would you go to? So throw that in there while we figure out Sarah's issue um with the uh not being able to hear me. So it is the Jets, it is the um, yes, she's gonna be she's just fine. As you can see, she looks fine, and that's what I was commenting to her. She does not look sick, but she says she feels like dying. We'll figure it out as this as just go show goes along. A lot a lot of things have have happened since Tuesday. You know, we've kind of had to get over what happened here with the Anaheim ducks in town. Jess lost four to one. It did not look good. There was a rush of thank you, Rihanna. Chicken noodle soup heals everything. It does, Sarah. Can you hear me?
SPEAKER_03I can. I don't know why. Oh my gosh, I don't know why I couldn't hear you on the day.
SPEAKER_05People are participating. I don't know if you heard it because I was just asking people like, who would you go to if you were sick to make sure you could get to stay home?
SPEAKER_03To make sure you got to stay home.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, see, people I go to my mom. Um, yeah, so my dad, my dad would be like, I've said this too many times. My dad would say, Can you walk? And I'd be like, Yes, you know, you can go to school. And I have carried that over to my kids. My kids complain all the time how I never let them stay home from school. And I was also commenting on how you don't look sick, but I also added that you said you feel like death. You don't know both parents made me go to school. See, Linda, that's the way it goes. Go to school.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if you well, you probably don't see this, Jamie, because you're not on Instagram, but there's some great ones about the growing up in the 80s or in the 90s, and what was the basically the school sick pack back in the day? Uh there'd be prices right, watching, uh, can of ginger ale, those sorts of things that were just synonymous with if you were staying home sick. I don't know if it was for you, but it certainly was for me that that was a big belief that you'd have soup, ginger ale, yeah, you'd watch prices right.
SPEAKER_05Peptobism.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, peptobism will stop you from barfing all the time without fail.
SPEAKER_03Fascinating. Okay.
SPEAKER_05With for me, anyways.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_05I mean, sometimes there's pin coming out of me, but when I did okay, totally off the rails.
SPEAKER_03This is what happens. This this is what happens when I leave you alone with it. Okay, did you just drink straight bone broth? Try that one. Oh, bone broth would be great.
SPEAKER_05Put that on the list, and I want you to let me know how you uh how that goes. I want video later.
SPEAKER_03Thank you very much, everyone. Uh you know, I just figured that I would uh do the show from here today, and then with it it being a TSN broadcast tonight, that it was gonna be a little bit too much to try to make it through the entire day, yeah. Um, at the rink. But look what the reason that it started off, and I was the one that asked if we could start with the runway moment of picture day was just to show that basically the sun has come up.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yes, it was a disappointing loss against Anaheim. Um, but you know, everybody also has to turn the page, move on. The players did that yesterday. Plus, let's be honest, anytime you can get in a little Dylan DeMello content where he's mic'ed up with the uh dry sense of humor that he has, it's always a good way to start off your day.
SPEAKER_05The best part was when he's debugging Tays, Jonathan Taze about not being in the front row. I know.
SPEAKER_09When was have you ever not been in the front row?
SPEAKER_05Obviously, guys, uh Jonathan Taze was a longtime captain of the Chicago Blackhawks. The leadership group is always in the front row for those photos. Um, so that was that was a fantastic. So well done, uh the guys with that one for that runway moment of the uh it's always nice on team photo day, isn't it? Like the you're right, the sun has come up. Um, they are still just five points out of a playoff spot. It would be really nice if it was just three as we go into this game today against the New York Rangers. But uh overall, I think uh you can, as the guys have said many times, you can flash that game, and that's pretty much the attitude that they've had.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, absolutely. Look, I mean, would it be great if they were three points back and had taken advantage of the opportunity with all the other teams losing around them? Of course it would be, but they're also not seven points back. So if you want to take a glass half full uh perspective on it, for me, when I think of that loss against Anaheim, one of the big things was how they lost. It wasn't that they didn't get the two points. I mean, Anaheim obviously is a strong team. They have been playing, they were seven and two in their nine games previous to coming um into Winnipeg. We know that that team can play, but it was how the Jets struggled with it, uh, really from the get-go. And you heard Scott O'Neill say after the game, we laid a big fat egg on it and get anything going. And I think you looked at the way that they struggled with Anaheim's um transitions and the way that they the way that they weren't able to get anything going. And it wasn't just the third line, it wasn't the second, it was all it's just felt like all four lines, nobody was able to get things going. We have never seen a game where Mark Shifley, Kyle Connor, and Gabe Vellardi have all been in the lineup and none of them had a shot on that. No more that hasn't happened in the season since Gabe Vellardi's been here. So it's certainly uh it's disappointing, but you move on to the Rangers tonight.
SPEAKER_05I'll tell you this like uh that ordinarily you hear fans get frustrated. Uh the fans were very unique on on Tuesday. I never heard them chant shoot the puck as loud as they were chanting. And um, there was some cheering whenever a shot got through because they only had nine shots, I believe, after the second period. Um, they were all shot 20 to 5 uh in the second period, Anaheim had scored 25.
SPEAKER_03Seven shots after the second.
SPEAKER_05Second, sorry, it's two in the first five. Two in the first. And then uh you had texted me right after Morgan Barron spoke, and he just like ripped the team on that one. So it it was it was it was a tough night to watch. It was a tough game to watch. But I'll I'll tell you this is what this is the part like Morgan Barron said after the game, you know, they had every right to be frustrated, but there was also Gus Neckwist and uh Cole Perfetti talked about this yesterday, and and this is players being accountable, right? And understanding why fans were frustrated. Let's hear from them both here right now.
SPEAKER_01Our fans are fantastic, and they're they're um so passionate and they obviously want us to do so well and we want to do well for them. Um and in a game like last night where we didn't create much, you know, there's they're coming out and supporting us still, and we didn't give them much of a show. Um obviously it's it's it sucks when they're cheering when we get a shot on net. Um it's not uh you know, it's not what we want to give for them, it's not uh how we want to play. And obviously it got to a point where it must not have been very fun for them to watch it.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I you know what, I I I get their frustration. You know, we we we were frustrated yesterday too, obviously not not being able to generate. So uh but we know they're behind us, so uh move on for the next.
SPEAKER_05That's what I mean. There's the consistent thing. Let's move on. And here's another thing that was the worst game of their uh of the seven games since the break, that was their worst game. So I think I can understand why they want to move on from because they had played so well in the previous six, and that kind of feels like an anomaly. How Anaheim dominated that game from start to finish. Like I could not believe that they couldn't get any shots through. And um I know people are talking about shooting, but Anaheim is clock, Anaheim is clogging up the middle. There was no shooting lanes, so some credit has to be given to them uh in that aspect. But now we move on, and uh Michel Clinton will join us here momentarily uh on the show here to talk about what happened and what's uh ahead here. There's um obviously people you know are frustrated, but now you can move on. We'll feel figure out those goals. Now, you're playing the New York Rangers, and people look at the standings and they'll go like this the Rangers are last in the Eastern Conference. However, you look a little deeper, New York only has two points fewer than the Winnipeg Jets. That's how I would say deep the Eastern Conference is because there's a lot of teams that are uh I don't think there's many teams below 500 in the East. Um, and there's a ton of teams fighting for a playoff spot right now, uh in the Eastern Conference.
SPEAKER_03Well, and I don't think anyone in the Pacific division you know would make the uh be in a postseason spot in the East. Like it's I mean, it's just it's a it's certainly it's a real um well, they just they have a strong um group that's going over there right now. You see the Rangers coming in. They have had obviously their struggles. They have talked about they were there was a lot of talk about the Rangers going into the trade deadline. What were they gonna do? Chris Drury um was reading an article. The in total figure made about five trades, but that's when you go back and you consider ones earlier um before the trade deadline, um shipping off our Hemi Panarin to the LA Kings. That's a big one. We thought that Vincent Trochak was going to get traded, he did not. So we'll wait to see what happens that in the offseason. But they have already, they just sent out an email this year saying or letter to fans saying that they were going to be reshaping, I believe was no retooling. Retooling is the word of 2026 uh for the New York Rangers because you think it was just a couple of years ago that they won the Metro and were in it. And then last year they finished fifth, fifth in the division. Right now they're sitting eighth, and and the disappointment, obviously, with the way that they have fallen off. But you can't take this Rangers team lightly. They have played a lot better on the road than they have at home. They are coming in though off of a four-nothing win over Calgary, and they have a power play that can certainly pay dividends uh if you're a Rangers fan.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, even without Artemi Panera, there's enough talent uh on the offensive side of things so the Rangers can hurt you. Uh, before we bring in Mitchell Clinton, let's take a look at the projected lines for this evening's game. I just saw a comment pop up in the uh chats that said it's a heritage game. It most certainly is. I believe the last four games of this homestand are gonna be a heritage game. So no changes to the lineup uh in terms of the forward group. There is no change on the back end. Uh, Connor Hellebuck will get a seventh consecutive start uh in goal. So, to make sense of it all, a man that has an answer for every issue at all times. It is Mitchell Clinton joining us. Hello, no pressure. I'm already panicking.
SPEAKER_03We could tell.
SPEAKER_05Do you do you think so? I I saw a lot of grumbling on the old social media today once we I retweeted your lines and people commenting about how there's no changes. There was 13 shots on goal the other night. So I could see where they're why they're upset a little bit in some ways, but why do you think Scott O'Neill chose to stay with the same lineup for tonight against the Rangers?
SPEAKER_04I would say it's probably more of a vote of confidence in how the group was playing prior to the Anaheim game. There really does seem to be a mindset, an appetite, or uh a belief that the Anaheim game, especially given the results that Winnipeg's had since the Olympic break, was kind of the one-off. It sucks, it always sucks when it happens, but it almost doubly sucks because of when it happened. And I think that's why there's a big uh kind of spotlight on it. So, I mean, here's the opportunity for Winnipeg to show that they can, you know, respond in that situation, especially with this particular group of players, obviously. And I remember we had uh Isaac Roseanne on after the first game that he and Jacob Bryson played with the Jets and Winnipeg had won, obviously. And I remember asking him, like, how does it feel to not only get the win, but also to be able to feel like you're you're part of it, like you're in it, you're you're in it with this group now. And now it's it's another situation for them, right? Like they're they got to help this team bounce back from a loss. So this is the opportunity. And as we always say, nothing's permanent. You never know what it's gonna look like as the game goes on. If the coaching staff doesn't like what they see, they haven't been really hesitant at all to make changes in-game either.
SPEAKER_03Well, let's go off that idea of opportunity because one of those players that we've seen with opportunity and that seems to be making the most of it is Salomonson. Um, today also it comes out. He's gonna be getting his chance on the second power play unit. Scott O'Neill spoke about him as well. What is it that you have liked about him that you think he's added to this defensive court that if, you know, obviously in his mind, he's hoping we'll keep him here not just for the rest of this season, but going beyond?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Sarah, for me, it's kind of been just the comfort that he's continued to show, right? You think back to the first couple of games he played in Washington and Carolina, and there were some learning moments in there for sure. And of course, there would be for anybody coming into the National Hockey League. But whenever you always heard about Elias Salamanson, whether you were talking to those around the Manitoba Moose or those that were a little bit more familiar with him, maybe at the World Juniors, as he's gone on in his career and you know, won that title in the in the SHL as well, it's always been about how reliable he is as a puck moving defenseman, but he he can also get up in the play, and he's got a quick release on the shot from the point. And he he's it's not that he's hesitant to use it, but he doesn't necessarily fire away, right? Like he's gonna find the shooting lanes, he's gonna make sure that that puck, if he's letting it go, it's gonna get through. And that's pretty much what happened on the Morgan Barron goal was Salamanson's ability to get it through at five on five. And of course, that's a byproduct of a rush chance, etc. But nonetheless, the I think the principle still stands. What we've seen over this particular time since he's been able to get back into the lineup on a consistent basis, is that comfort level continue to rise, right? Like, and I remember talking about this with uh about Logan Stanley and a lot of players that that come into the National Hockey League, right? When you're there on maybe your first recall or your first season, maybe you're uh a young prospect getting your first nine games in the NHL, whatever it may be, you're worried about that mistake and what that mistake will cost you, whether it's ice time or the ability to get in the lineup the next game. You know, for Elias Salamansin, especially given the fact that he's a right shot and some of the numbers that he's putting up in terms of possession analytics, uh chances for and against with Dylan Sandberg, he's become a pretty important part of Winnipeg's top four. And he's just getting more and more experience of A playing those minutes and B playing against that competition. So now he's a little bit more settled, I think, in that spot. Now he knows full well he has to continue to play well to stay in that spot and keep getting the opportunity, but it just kind of seems he's got that ability to let whatever minor mistake say he makes roll off his back, and he's able to go out the next shift, and you wouldn't even realize that he had made a mistake the previous shift.
SPEAKER_05I know you're in the room, Mitch, when uh Dylan DeMello will and Dylan Sandberg talked today. And uh Sandberg made a very funny choke with Josh Morrissey, Mark Scheifley, you know, Dylan DeMelo is like this seems like there's a milestone being reached every week, right? So at this point, so 700 games for Dylan DeMello. Maybe the best part for De Mello when he came to the NHL, he came on a veteran hockey team like the San Jose Sharks, probably the best place to come in if you're breaking into the league because the pressure isn't so high on you. But what have you liked about Dylan DeMelo since he became a Winnipeg Jet?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, mostly consistency, right? Like he's been really good for Josh Morrissey as a partner as well. But I mean, this is a guy that came into Winnipeg and pretty much immediately started playing about 21 and a half minutes a game and has done that consistently over the last number of years, and you know, has been a big part of Winnipeg's PK that you know has had some different coaching staffs, but at the same time, you know, he's had to learn different PKers in front of him and different structures, different systems, but it hasn't really been a problem. Now, part of that, yes, it's a job of a pro hockey player to know how to do his job, and that Dylan DeMello certainly knows how to do that. But I think even since he came to Winnipeg, I think we've seen some some growth in Dylan DeMelo's game, and that just goes to show that, you know, early on in a career, we just talked about Elias Salomons, and you know, he's getting into his first, you know, coming up on 15, 20 games in the NHL. There's a lot of learning that goes on there, but that learning doesn't necessarily stop. But you know, I've often heard it said that defensemen need about 300 games in the NHL before they really you start to have a really, really good sense of who they are, what they can do. And that's not to say that you know you don't add to your game as it goes, but it's around that 300 game mark that you start to see exactly what this defenseman might be able to do. You just have enough experience, you played teams enough times, you played against players enough times that you you start to see some consistency in that game. And I think for Dylan DeMello, now that you get up to 700, just goes to show that you know, the you're never satisfied as an athlete, you're always trying to find a different way. And his role has continued to change over the course of those 700 games, where he went from say 300 games to now 700. You know, maybe he wasn't in that top two, top four role in some of his previous teams, but now that's pretty much it in Winnipeg, all he knows. And he's done it with Josh Morrissey, he's done it with Dylan Sandberg as a PK duo. And even when Morrissey was out, Sandberg and De Melo, that was the top pair that Winnipeg was throwing out there, and they they didn't really seem to blink too much. They're a big part of why Winnipeg has been able to get the the results that they have coming out of the Olympic break, especially given all the injuries on the back end, specifically in DeMelo's case on the right side with Pionk and Miller out.
SPEAKER_03When you think about the way that this team has played since coming out of the break, and Jamie and I talked before you came on about how you know you hope that last game against Anaheim was more an anomaly and just a one-off given the way that they had been playing in the six previous games. When you look at this game tonight against the New York Rangers, so they're sitting, yes, last in the metro, but obviously at 60 points and they play well on the road, they've had success. This isn't a team that you can take lightly. Jets are only at 62 points. So, with the way that things are structured, what is it that you are expecting from this game tonight? How do you think this game has to look for the Jets to be able to get back into the wind column?
SPEAKER_04I would say they need to A, be fast, B, take care of the puck at both blue lines. That's what really got them into trouble against Anaheim and against a team like that that's going to run. And gun that's feeds right into what they want to do. And I remember uh just before I came on here, I was listening a little bit to you guys, and Jamie talked about how there was just nothing in the middle of the ice, and that's where Anaheim would force that turnover, and away they go, right? So puck management's going to be a big one for Winnipeg. And just to give an indication of how much of an anomaly that was for Winnipeg against Anaheim, you know, you start from the Olympic break and you go to up until that Anaheim game on natural static when it comes to expected goals, uh shot attempts for and against at five on five and high danger chances. Winnipeg's creeping up into the top five or six in the NHL in that span. Like they were playing quite well. And it's not even necessarily because they were just winning, but they were starting to turn a lot of those numbers that have really, over the course of the year, been against them, starting to turn them into a little bit of a strength. And then, of course, the Anaheim game happens, they give up a whole lot of chances that have been, at least since the Olympic break, a little bit different. So puck management for Winnipeg is going to be the big thing. The Rangers roster is significantly different than what Winnipeg saw last year. There's a lot more youth in that lineup, but kind of similar to Winnipeg, right? These young guys in the Rangers organization, they want to make a good impression as well. So you know that they're going to be bringing everything that they can despite where the Rangers are. And you guys talked about how different they are as a road team and a home team. I mean, their power plays second in the NHL on the road. So do not give them a whole bunch of chances. Make sure you stay disciplined because Winnipeg's PK has kind of been scuffling a little bit, but that's the main thing. Take care of the puck. And usually, if Winnipeg's taking care of the puck and not feeding, whether it's transition or second chance opportunities for the opposition, they usually put themselves in a pretty good spot.
SPEAKER_05All right, before we let you go, uh it's time for soups on. Hang on a second, Mitch.
SPEAKER_04Amazing. Okay, listen.
SPEAKER_09Isn't it?
SPEAKER_04Oh it's it's my question is there is it sounded like there's a slurping sound in it. I don't know who had to do that sound effect.
SPEAKER_03I think we all know out of the two of us, which one would say, okay, fine, I'll do it.
SPEAKER_05Fine, I'll do it. I did. I wish I wish it was me because that's some good slurping. Uh Sarah's sick today. So, what was your favorite soup growing up when you didn't feel good that your mom or dad would make for you?
SPEAKER_04It was chicken noodle, obviously, uh, on my side of things. Um, but not necessarily the Campbell's. It was, and I don't even know if any of this is sponsored. So Lipton's was the one for for me. It was, I don't know what it is, but like the smaller noodle. I don't know if it was just the broth was saltier. I don't very specific answer. I love it. Check-in presented by Lipton.
SPEAKER_05Listen, hey, since we're sponsorless for the second year in a row, we're we just throw them out there. We say anybody's name on here, and hopefully somebody's watching. They're like, you know what? That's a good idea. I'm gonna sponsor that show. So say whatever you want on this show. We are we have open doors to anybody, any type of product at this point. 100%. Thanks, buddy. Absolutely have a good day.
SPEAKER_03Thanks so much, Mitch.
SPEAKER_05Mitchell Glenn joining us. That was a fine execution by Mitchell on that one because he's he's given us his favorite soup answer before. But that's why I changed it up. Yeah, well, good job by he didn't even like flinch, he was ready to go.
SPEAKER_03Yes, okay.
SPEAKER_05So we talked about 700 games in the National Hockey League. Yes, you and I have zero together combined.
SPEAKER_03How many do you think we have broadcasting though?
SPEAKER_05Oh, but you've done way more broadcasts than I have. Like I did two seasons with the flames. Does digital count nowadays? I don't know. Does this count? Like this show. I would give you you got a thousand games in the NHL, don't you?
SPEAKER_03By now, I don't know. I could have to go back and count.
SPEAKER_05Well, you have a bobblehead, so obviously you have a thousand.
SPEAKER_03I should have brought my bobblehead on.
SPEAKER_05I know. I you know what?
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna bring it so that it the bobblehead's over your right shoulder right now. And we have big dress and push them to the side. I'm gonna put my own bobblehead up there.
SPEAKER_05You're gonna see if I can notice. That's what you should do. See if anybody else notices. Okay, so uh Scott O'Neill and of course Dylan DeMelo talking about 700 games in the National Hockey League for number two.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, for me, you know, starting four years ago, coming in, uh, you know, not really knowing other than coaching against him and then being able to work with him every day. You know, he's uh he's a real veteran guy. He's a real takes his uh job very seriously every day, and he takes a lot of pride in going against the other team's best lines. I mean, I don't know if he was prior to that. I don't want to uh say anything wrong or against him in the sense I don't know if he was in a top four role, top two role uh prior to that, and coming in here now with J-Mow and they're going head to head against the best, uh the opposition's best. He's been doing it four years, and he's always a plus player, he's always on the right side of things, and um, you know, adding to the penalty kill, you know, he had a you know career year in goals a couple years ago, and just his consistency, and that's like I said, when all these guys hit these numbers, it's because of how consistent they are with their game. It's the one thing that you try to kind of talk to young players about, about getting consistency in it, because once you do, then you know you're reliable every single night. And that's what Mel is, he's real reliable.
SPEAKER_06Uh no, no, not uh not not every day, that's for sure. There were some days you feel like you can play 1500 games when things are going well, and when things aren't going well, you think, oh no, I might not be in the league very long. So um, yeah, when when you kind of look back at it in the road, it's been obviously uh a lot of fun, some ups and downs, but um you know, definitely wouldn't trade it for anything. And uh definitely uh, you know, 700 games is an awesome accomplishment, so I'm proud of it. Not satisfied. Hopefully, you know, can play uh a lot more and uh you know continue to enjoy uh you know living my dream every day.
SPEAKER_05The most impressive part from Dylan uh came a little bit later in that scrum inside the dressing room. Like he listed off pretty much every coach he's had in the National Hockey League, which I find fascinating that you can do that. Remember everybody like that. So full credit to Dylan DeMelo as a man of great detail. Yes, I did work for the Flames. Um what a time to be alive that was. I got a million stories during that. What had a ton of fun those broadcasts? I'll tell you one thing. This is my only one of my many embarrassing moments during the that I was on the ice introducing the game. Of course, you stand on ice level, Sarah, right? I had to go on the ice at the saddle dome all the time.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was odd, that was a big sports net thing for quite a while.
SPEAKER_05Long time, and like the guys would come on the ice and they'd skate around, they'd be right behind me. Jamie McClellan used to slap me on the butt all the time with his goal stick when he'd go by. And I was like, it's the flames, and I totally forgot who they were playing, so I had to look over my shoulder and like the Columbus Blue Jackets, because I totally had blanked out on national television. So that was uh one of my not finer moments. But that was right after I got slapped in the butt by a hockey stick, so I was I was distracted.
SPEAKER_03You you and I will one day uh bring up some of our embarrassing stories. Oh I got hundreds.
SPEAKER_05We'll have we'll have we'll have a full show on that, and we'll bring other people into the show, I think. Sure, we'll that's like a Gene Princip show kind of kind of show. Darren Millar, Darren Millar, Joe Pescucci, we'll bring them all back on.
SPEAKER_03We'll bring back the sports line one. We've all had them be we have certainly all had them before. Um, just if we want to throw up those as we get ready to wrap, if we want to throw up the projected lines again just to give everybody uh a look. I know some of them.
SPEAKER_05But Sarah, don't you throw up because you're not feeling well. So we'll throw up the line.
SPEAKER_03Don't worry, uh wait until after we're off the air. Um, I know some people had wondered whether or not we might see some changes after the struggles uh on Tuesday. But as Mitchell pointed out too, this is not uh coaching staff that is hesitant to make changes in game. So that it's going to start tonight. Uh Salah Monson gets a shot on that second power play unit taking the place of Hayden Fleury. So we'll see whether or not they can get going. But to reiterate what Mitchell said with the Rangers power play being what it is, this certainly you hope is going to be a uh disciplined effort from the Winnipeg Jets tonight. It should be something that we have seen from them recently. Uh Connor Halbuck gets the start in net. Um Shisterkin is who we're expecting in net based on the Rangers morning skate as well. So we'll see. But New York with points, I was looking at six of their last seven games, they've scored at least four goals in four of their last five games. So that is a team that you don't want to give those opportunities to, uh, because they certainly, with some of that uh talent that they have on there, have certainly made opposing teams uh pay recently.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and here I from the way the guys' body language today, there's I'm pretty sure there's not going to be another game like there was on Tuesday. They seem very determined to prove that that was a one-off. And I fully expect them to be just like that when the puck drops tonight at seven.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Um, a new edition of Home Ice came out yesterday. Uh, you'll be able to catch it as well on the Jets broadcast in the first intermission, or at least a sample of it. But here is a little teaser as to what you can expect when you go on the Winnipeg Jets YouTube channel to check out Home Ice. Lego, what is it that you enjoy about Lego?
SPEAKER_08I think just I mean, obviously creating something, making something's cool.
SPEAKER_03Um Do you always follow? Is it always a set piece that you're creating?
SPEAKER_08Usually it's Star Wars. A lot of Star Wars ones I've already done, but there's only so many. Like, I want to get the Death Star, but it's a thousand bucks. Like, that's insane. Like, my parents know I spent a thousand bucks like everything.
SPEAKER_03I love that even now, in the back of your mind, you go, oh, mom and dad would not be happy about that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Over here, I'm working on Java ship. So it's still pretty early stages. This is just kind of the base of it. We've got three people already, and we got Java.
SPEAKER_03Perhaps you inspired that clip.
SPEAKER_05I'm not jealous of you at all, rarely, but I was so jealous when you once you unloaded the fact that he has Lego in his house, I was like, and it's Star Wars. Star Wars? I could talk the fact that Logan Stanley came on this podcast, uh, Ground Control is like, uh, I think it was the Millennium Fall, had no clue what was going on. I was embarrassed for Logan Stanley not knowing the Star Wars ships. So it was, I was so jealous of you, and I still am right now because that would be amazing.
SPEAKER_03But for those that don't know, uh JT is a huge Star Wars fan.
SPEAKER_05Yes, yeah, like uh on apologetic. I'll watch anything and apologize for all of it, even the Disney Star Wars stuff. I apologize for daily. Um, and yeah, see, I like this. I like it more now with the Star Wars Lego collection. And that is the whole point of why we do ground control and why we do home ice and why runway. So people get to know these guys a little bit more than just what they do on the ice because they're really cool people. Um, I sat down with Isaac Rosane the other day. Uh, first question I asked him, and I'm not gonna tell you what he said. I said, Does anyone bug you about IKEA? Great answer coming up, but when that comes out, it'll be out soon anyway. So um, again, congratulations, Sarah. That was another great episode from uh home ice, and you've been getting lots of kudos in the chat. And thank you, Phyllis. There is nothing better than Star Wars.
SPEAKER_03Phyllis, he was waiting for someone. He felt he was needing someone to come through and say, my kids all hate Star Wars.
SPEAKER_05I thought for sure Star Wars, like you have kids, you're like, I'm gonna sit with them, I'm gonna watch all these movies together. Nothing, nothing. They're like, What is this, Dad? So I failed as a parent. I failed.
SPEAKER_03No, well, you know, we'll talk about that in that uh in that long episode as well.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, with Darren Millard.
SPEAKER_03Um yeah, so it was great. And you know what? One of the things that I've loved, just quickly before we wrap, about the comments that I've seen so far about that homeice, is that people love that Villardi signs the sustention. Um, and here he is worried about what his parents are gonna say. Because you're always terrified of your parents, no matter how about what it would be spending a thousand dollars on Legos, which to me, I mean, it it's insane the idea of spending a thousand dollars on a Lego set, but I appreciate that we're in a different that I'm in a very different tax bracket.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna if I'm in his tax bracket, I'd hate to see what my house would look like because there would be no room.
SPEAKER_03Oh actually, I would love to see what your house would look like.
SPEAKER_05I think that would be I talk big, but there's no way that stuff is out. Yeah, it's I told I had a Yoda poster, I had Yoda wisdom up on my wall. I met Des. She came over, my wife to be, she's like, That has to go. And I was like, What are you talking about? I'm like, You not, I'm like, that helped me meet you, all that wisdom right there. Do or do not. There is no try. So I'm like, this is all right here. She's like, it has to go. So she made me take it down, like one month into the relationship.
SPEAKER_03Oh, but that's why I'm a dummy now because I don't have yoda.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what to do anymore. I have no yoda wisdom, so I'm an idiot because of that.
SPEAKER_03Oh the rails, off the rails. All right, we are gonna wrap things up because I'm going to uh get ready to come into the ring.
SPEAKER_05Everyone, wish Sarah well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we will see you tonight on the TSN broadcast. Looking forward to that. So happy that it is a seven o'clock start because nobody to this day can figure out why Tuesday was a 7:30.
SPEAKER_05So there's no answer why it was 7:30.
SPEAKER_03I haven't been able to find anyone yet. But seven o'clock starts. So 6:30 pregame show. Of course, you can always listen. If you can't watch us on TV, you can always listen to CJO B. Gotta love the calls of uh Paul Edmonds and Mitchell Clinton. It's always enjoyable. And when you want to continue with your Winnipeg Jets fix throughout the afternoon, you know where to head. A lot of you, I'm sure, are right now over to Winnipeg Sports Talk so that you can have Huss and Remus get you continue to get you set for tonight's game against the New York Rangers. Game five of this eight-game homestand. Yes, we have finally hit the halfway point.
SPEAKER_05Thanks for watching, everybody. Enjoy the game tonight.
SPEAKER_03We'll see you guys on Saturday, 11 o'clock show.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yes. 11 o'clock. Saturday, Sunday, Colorado. Saturday, St. Louis, Sunday. We'll see you both times. See you later.
SPEAKER_03Have a great day, everyone.