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NASHVILLE, Tenn. –Not that they haven’t thought of it, but the Winnipeg Jets will be well-advised to pick up their game tonight.
The Nashville Predators will be icing a pretty good team for the 7 p.m. CT start (TSN Jets, Sports Radio 1290) at Bridgestone Arena.
“It’ll be a good test for us,” Jets coach Claude Noel said this morning. “They can play anyway you want. They can play fast, which will be good for us. They rim a lot of pucks, which will be interesting for our defencemen.
“I told our players to be ready to go.”
Preds head coach Barry Trotz, for his team’s fifth pre-season game (3-1 to date) will include No. 1 goalie Pekka Rinne in his lineup for the team’s first exhibition home game.
Winnipegger Chet Pickard will be Rinne’s backup tonight.
Nashville will also have its top defensive tandem of Shea Weber and Ryan Suter dressed, while Manitoba products Jordin Tootoo and Colin Wilson will join several of the Predators top forwards like Patric Hornqvist, Martin Erat and David Legwand against the Jets.
The Jets, 1-1 after a home-road split Tuesday against Columbus, haven’t brought a shabby lineup to Music City, but they are still in split-squad mode, with a totally different team playing Sunday in Charlotte, N.C. against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Tonight, coach Claude Noel will use a lineup with goalie Chris Mason and hot rookie Mark Scheifele, who skated this morning on a line with Ben Maxwell and Chris Thorburn.
Evander Kane and Tobias Enstrom are among the other Jets skating here tonight, while it looks like captain Andrew Ladd and his regular winger Blake Wheeler will sit out and play Monday in St. John’s, N.L.
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
