Tip: Jets with another solid win at home!

San Jose Sharks are visiting Canada Life Centre and Winnipeg Jets on Monday at 07:00 PM ET.

Winnipeg Jets-San Jose Sharks

More at stake for Winnipeg = more motivated?

As the preamble says, the Winnipeg Jets has a lot to play for as they are chasing a Wild Card spot in the Western Conference, behind the Seattle Kraken that has claimed one of the two playoff spots in the conference. The Jets are battling with Calgary Flames and Nashville Predators, and we have the Jets in the driver’s seat as they are one point ahead of Calgary and three points ahead of Nashville. At the same time, San Jose is out of chance to reach the playoffs as they are over thirty points behind Jets with three games left to play. I think that it is likely that the motivation is a factor where it is advantage Winnipeg.

Jets strong at home and better both defensively and offensively

The Winnipeg Jets are a team that has been strong at home, as they are only six teams in the whole league that has taken more points at home than Winnipeg. Here in Canada Life Centre, the Jets has won four of their last five games, and comes closest from an important win against above-mentioned Nashville. Can they take a win in their last regular season home game before their road trip to face Minnesota and Colorado? The Jets are stronger than San Jose both defensively and offensively, as they both score more goals and creating more chances than San Jose, and are conceding both fewer goals and fewer goal scoring chances. The Jets roster contains a lot of star players, such as Josh Morrissey, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Blake Wheeler meanwhile the visitors largely relies on their offensively strong defenseman Erik Karlsson.

A big injury list for San Jose Sharks to deal with

The visitors are travelling to Manitoba with a thin roster, as they have a lot of injuries to deal with ahead of tonight’s game. The Sharks have earlier had players such as Alexander Barabanov, Wiliam Eklund, Luke Kunin and Oskar Lindblom on the injury list, and ahead of the game in Canada, the Sharks are also forced to deal with an injury on their defensively defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic, who left the previous game after just over two minutes one the ice due to an undisclosed injury, and the 36-year-old defenseman has not travelled to Winnipeg with the team.

Conclusion and prediction

Based on the conditions, I think it is likely that this will be a one-way-game in the home team’s favor as they have a lot more to play for than the visitors and are strong here at home in Canada Life Centre. In addition to that, the visiting San Jose has a long injury list, with several key players, to deal with. Motivation, quality and roster situation is all in home team’s favor, and I think the Jets has good chances to win this game with at least two goals.

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