Ehlers, Copp skate in non-contact jerseys as Jets prepare for Game 1

WINNIPEG - All season long, Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice has given as much detail as he possibly could when it came to the team's injuries.
After the first practice of the Stanley Cup Playoffs though, that open book was closed up and shoved into a drawer.
So the only update on forwards Nikolaj Ehlers and Andrew Copp (both of whom were in non-contact jerseys for Sunday's practice), as well as absentees Paul Stastny and Pierre-Luc Dubois, was minimal.
"I'm just optimistic on all of them, is what I'll tell you," Maurice said following the 40-minute practice. "We get to this time of year, you'll always have some guys in your line-up that are at 99 percent instead of 100. So we'll just keep going forward as we're optimistic that they're all going to play."

Stastny and Dubois both left the 4-2 regular season finale victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night and didn't return.
Maurice did say following that game that his expectation was that neither would practice on Sunday, so their absence on Sunday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Copp didn't play in that finale against Toronto - the first game the forward has missed all season - while Ehlers hasn't played since April 24.
The possibility of getting Ehlers back for a series against the speedy Edmonton Oilers would be a massive addition to the Jets roster.
"He's probably our most prolific five-on-five player. If you look at points and plus-minus, he makes a huge impact. He's a piece of a real powerful power play unit for us," said Maurice. "He has a great impact in our ability to play and generate offence for sure. He looked good out there today, so we're excited about getting him back. We don't know when it's going to be, but he looked good out there today."
With all four of those players not taking part in line rushes on Sunday, the Jets looked like this:
Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Perreault-Lowry-Appleton
Vesalainen-Thompson-Lewis
Harkins-Toninato-Dano
Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Heinola-Poolman
Stanley-Benn
While the forward group looked significantly different with those four players out, the Jets defence took on a more familiar look.
The pairing of Josh Morrissey and Dylan DeMelo has been together for three of the past four games, and also have some playoff experience from the Qualifying Round to lean on.
"It's always fun playing with Josh. He elevates my game and I feel really comfortable with him," said DeMelo. "It's fun playing with him whenever I get the chance. I feel like our game right now, individually and collectively, is in a real good spot. So if we stay together I think we're both looking forward to the challenge ahead."
That challenge, of course, comes in the form of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
McDavid's 105 points led the NHL by 21 over the next closest player, which just happened to be Draisaitl at 84.
No other player in the NHL reached 70 points this season.
McDavid had 22 points in nine games against the Jets this season, and was a big reason why Edmonton won six consecutive games over Winnipeg to close out the season series.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to go in and try to play our best," said Morrissey, adding that the team has improved in a number of areas since being outscored 9-2 in the final two meetings of the season against Edmonton.
"I think we made a lot of strides as a five-man unit, including our goaltender, in our defensive game the last few weeks," Morrissey said. "So we're going to have to be at our best in order to play well against this team that's very dangerous off the rush. I'm excited individually to get back to playoff hockey here. It's the best time of the year."
So much of that defensive focus has been limiting the opposition's chances in transition, something the Oilers feasted on in a 6-1 victory on April 26.
One of the keys to preventing those chances is puck management, another is reloads - where forwards are in a supportive position to help the Jets defencemen have a tight gap on opposing forwards.
"I think that defence leads to offence," said Morrissey. "When all that stuff starts going in the right direction you can knock pucks down, you can create turnovers and with how much speed we have with our forwards and talent, that's when I think we start to see some more rush goals for and sustained O-zone time and even some odd-man rushes for, those quick little two-on-ones and plays like that."
As the Jets pieced all this together, there were difficulties. Perhaps the most obvious stretch was the seven-game losing streak prior to the Jets winning three of the final five games to close out the regular season.
"I think our game has had a fairly substantial shift in style and it started in a stretch of hockey where we were losing games," said Maurice. "I really believe that that's going to be the best thing that happened for us. We didn't score easily and we had to grind it. So that's the underdog mentality. You're going to try and give the other team as little as possible, then still make sure you're aggressive that you can get yours."