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<\/a>Scheifele went into Friday ranked second only to the Vegas Golden Knights\u2019 Jack Eichel for the NHL points lead with 18 points (nine goals, nine assists) through the first 11 games of the season.Vilardi, who scored twice Thursday night against the Blackhawks, is also playing at a point-per-game pace (4-7\u201411). The Jets would love to see a breakout campaign from him after three straight 20-goal seasons led to his six-year extension in July.Former Chicago Blackhawks star Jonathan Toews made his comeback this season after missing the entirety of the 2023-24 and 2024-25 campaigns. He\u2019s so far recorded six points (two goals, four assists) in what has so far been an impressive return as the Jets\u2019 second-line center and a member of the second power-play unit.Reigning Hart and Vezina Trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck is once more off to a dominant start to his 11th NHL season. He\u2019s so far posted a .921 save percentage and 2.34 goals against average, and the Jets boast a 6-3-0 record in his nine starts.<\/p>\nFilip Hallander – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust<\/p>\n
Anthony Mantha – Evgeni Malkin – Justin Brazeau (0r Philip Tomasino, if necessary)<\/p>\n
Tommy Novak – Ben Kindel – Ville Koivunen<\/p>\n
Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n
Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n
Owen Pickering \/ Harrison Brunicke<\/p>\n
Goalies: Tristan Jarry and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n
Potential Scratches: Philip Tomasino, Matt Dumba, Connor Clifton<\/p>\n
IR: Kevin Hayes (upper body), Jack St. Ivany (lower body), Rutger McGroarty (upper body), Joel Blomqvist (lower body), Rickard Rakell (hand, out 6-8 weeks), Caleb Jones (lower body, out 6-8 weeks)<\/p>\n
Justin Brazeau wasn\u2019t on the ice<\/a> for Friday\u2019s practice, and Philip Tomasino took his place on the second line. The good news is, NHL media<\/a> reports that was just maintenance. That will come as a major relief given that Brazeau\u2019s six goals in 12 games have been a key part of the Penguins\u2019 hot start to the season, and that the Pens are already short one top-six forward after losing Rickard Rakell to injury.Harrison Brunicke got another shot at swapping in for Matt Dumba alongside Owen Pickering on the bottom pairing.Based on the goalie rotation that has formed this season it would be Arturs Silovs\u2019 game in net should that continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (8-2-2, 18 points, 1st place Metropolitan Division) @ Winnipeg Jets (8-3-0, 16 points, 2nd place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[3625,5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-278976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-winnipeg","13":"tag-winnipeg-jets","14":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115474826840473335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}