For the first time this season, the Winnipeg Jets are facing an opponent that they have already seen.
They are on the road against the Tampa Bay Lightning, a team they were able to get a 7-4 win against just over a week ago.
The Lightning will be without one of their star players in Brayden Point, but Head Coach Scott Arniel knows that won’t slow Tampa down.
“There’s still a lot of veteran players over there that know how to win hockey games. They’ve had a week off here to kind of get themselves reset. We know (Nikita Kucherov) is going to see an awful lot of ice time, and they gave us a tough one in our building,” said Arniel.
Jets d-man Dylan DeMelo said the main thing to be aware of with the Lightning is their top guys always find a way to make you pay if …