Tonight: HURRICANES AT JETS

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MTS Centre, 7:30 p.m.

TV: TSN Jets

Radio: TSN 1290

About the Jets: This is the third of six meetings between the two clubs, with the Jets having won the first two: 5-3 on Oct. 22 in Winnipeg and 3-1 on Nov. 25 in Raleigh. Carolina went 5-0-1 against the Atlanta Thrashers in 2010-11… Centre Bryan Little has 12 points (6G, 6A) in his last 10 games and is working on a four-game point streak (2G, 4A)… Winnipeg is 12-11-4 and this franchise hasn’t been two games above .500 since last Feburary (25-23-10)… During the Jets’ three-game winning streak, goaltender Ondrej Pavelec posted a shutout and a save percentage of .965… Evander Kane’s 14 goals is three off the NHL lead shared by Milan Michalek (Ottawa), Jonathan Toews (Chicago) and Phil Kessel (Toronto), all of whom had 17 heading into Thursday’s action.

About the Hurricanes: Carolina is coming off a 5-3 victory over Edmonton on Wednesday, their first under new head coach Kirk Muller… The Canes are just 1-5-1 this season against Southeast Division opponents… Carolina leads the NHL with six short-handed goals; the team had seven all of last year… Jeff Skinner leads Carolina in scoring (12G, 12A)… Goaltender Mike Murphy made his NHL debut in Calgary this week and became the first netminder in league history to get his first loss before allowing his first goal (from Elias Sports Bureau). Murphy stopped both shots he faced after relieving Cam Ward in the third period, but took the loss for Carolina, because an empty-net goal scored while he was the goaltender of record proved to be the winner.

 

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

50 Chris Mason

4 Zach Bogosian

5 Mark Stuart

8 Alex Burmistrov

9 Evander Kane

13 Kyle Wellwood

14 Tim Stapleton

15 Tanner Glass

16 Andrew Ladd

18 Bryan Little

19 Jim Slater

22 Chris Thorburn

26 Blake Wheeler

29 Johnny Oduya

33 Dustin Byfuglien

36 Mark Flood

41 Jason Jaffray

44 Arturs Kulda

48 Carl Klingberg

80 Nik Antropov

 

CAROLINA HURRICANES

30 Cam Ward

33 Brian Boucher

70 Mike Murphy

4 Jamie McBain

5 Bryan Allen

6 Tim Gleason

12 Eric Staal

13 Anthony Stewart

14 Andreas Nodl

15 Tuomo Ruutu

16 Brandon Sutter

19 Jiri Tlusty

23 Alexei Ponikarovsky

25 Joni Pitkanen

27 Derek Joslin

28 Justin Faulk

36 Jussi Jokinen

37 Tim Brent

39 Patrick Dwyer

44 Jay Harrison

51 Tomas Kaberle

53 Jeff Skinner

59 Chad Larose

— Ed Tait