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Game 27
Date: Friday, November 29th, 2019
Time: 1:00 PM Pacific
Location: Honda Center
TV: Prime Ticket
Radio: AM 830
Your Enemy: Arctic Ice Hockey
The Anaheim Ducks (11-11-4) are back home to take on the Winnipeg Jets (15-9-1) in a Black Friday matinee. Winnipeg blasted the San Jose Sharks 5-1 on Wednesday and are hoping to avenge a 7-4 loss in Anaheim back on October 29.
The Ducks dropped Wednesday’s game at Arizona 4-3 in a shootout, but there were some encouraging signs including a late goal by Troy Terry.
Players to Watch
Nikolaj Ehlers may not be the most heralded of the Jets, but he is on a hot streak recently with four goals in his last six appearances. For the Ducks, Ryan Getzlaf has a six-game point streak with two markers and six helpers over that stretch.
Keys to the Game
Start strong.
The Jets are 9-4 on the road this season and have been victorious in six of their last seven away from Bell MTS Place. Anaheim managed to beat them last month after falling behind 2-1 thanks to four goals in the second period, but they can’t count on winning if they don’t play tougher defense at the outset.
Take aim.
Connor Hellebuyck is having a nice season so far with a .930 save percentage compared to .913 last season. However, he does face a fairly high shot volume and had to make 37 saves against the Sharks. It’s never a bad idea to force him to make saves rather than look for the perfect pass that may never materialize.
Projected lineups
Anaheim
Rickard Rakell - Ryan Getzlaf - Troy Terry
Nick Ritchie - Sam Steel - Ondrej Kase
Max Jones - Adam Henrique - Jakob Silfverberg
Nicolas Deslauriers - Derek Grant - Carter Rowney
Hampus Lindholm - Jacob Larsson
Cam Fowler - Erik Gudbranson
Brendan Guhle - Korbinian Holzer
John Gibson
Winnipeg
Kyle Connor - Mark Scheifele - Patrik Laine
Nikolaj Ehlers - Blake Wheeler - Jack Roslovic
Andrew Copp - Adam Lowry - Mathieu Perreault
Joona Luoto - David Gustafsson - Logan Shaw
Josh Morrissey - Tucker Poolman
Dmitry Kulikov - Neal Pionk
Anthony Bitetto - Luca Sbisa
Connor Hellebuyck