The Winnipeg Jets will face the Columbus Blue Jackets from Ohio on Sunday evening.
The 42-19-5 Winnipeg Jets have hit the road and will face the 22-33-11 Columbus Blue Jackets for the first of five-straight road games over the next eight days.
The game features a 5:00 PM central puck drop, to which Winnipeg will look to improve upon its 19-10-3 road record with a strong performance on Sunday.
The Jets are coming off a strong shutout performance over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night, but have been unable to string together back-to-back victories since March 2-3, which just so happened to also come on the road.
Winnipeg had a host of lineup changes for Friday's tilt, as four players came into the lineup with Cole Perfetti, Dylan Samberg, Colin Miller and Rasmus Kupari sitting out.
Things will look slightly different on Sunday, to which netminder Connor Hellebuyck will get back in the saddle following Laurent Brossoit's second of back-to-back shutouts.
But the rest of the lineup remains unchanged. According to Rick Bowness, that wasn’t the original plan, but his team’s play on Friday gave him no choice to keep the same lineup intact on Sunday.
Winnipeg Jets expected line combinations for Sunday, March 17 vs. Columbus:
Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo
Toffoli-Monahan-Ehlers
Appleton-Lowry-Niederreiter
Barron-Gustafsson-Namestnikov
Morrissey-DeMelo
Dillon-Pionk
Schmidt-Stanley
Hellebuyck
Injured: Vilardi
Healthy scratches: Miller, Kupari, Samberg, Perfetti