Jets prepared for both scenarios as second round draws near

WINNIPEG - Andrew Copp will be watching tonight's Game 7 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, but he only has one request.
"Hopefully it doesn't go to six overtimes because that'll be past my bedtime," said the Jets forward. "There is an opportunity to take it in as a fan, but we'll be ready to see who wins and then either I'm packing a bag to get ready to go tomorrow, or we're staying here."
If the Maple Leafs win, the Jets will practice Tuesday in Winnipeg, then hop on a plane and head to Toronto that afternoon in preparation for Wednesday's Game 1.
If Montreal comes out on top, the Canadiens will fly to Winnipeg for Game 1.
"It'll be interesting to see how Toronto bounces back and Montreal with a little bit of momentum," said Copp, who has watched a number of games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. "It feels like the pressure is kind of on both of them. It'll be interesting to see how it goes."

For Paul Maurice and his coaching staff, preparation for any outcome is important. While they haven't shown any video of Toronto or Montreal at this point, they've been working diligently behind the scenes to be prepared for tonight's final buzzer.
"We have a routine for a team that we will play next," said Maurice. "We'll just run two programs instead of one, and they're identical."
The 35-minute skate Copp and his teammates had at Bell MTS Place on Monday is the last one they'll have without knowing their opponent.
There were no changes to the line rushes that have been used since the team was fully healthy heading into Game 3 of the series against Edmonton:
Connor-Scheifele-Wheeler
Stastny-Dubois-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Appleton
Perreault-Thompson-Lewis
Morrissey-DeMelo
Forbort-Pionk
Stanley-Poolman
Since eliminating the Edmonton Oilers on May 24, a full week has passed since the Jets have played a game. That makes it the longest stretch the team has had between games in the franchise's postseason history.
During the 2018 run to the Western Conference Final, the Jets waited six days after eliminating the Minnesota Wild in the first round before playing Game 1 against Nashville.
By the time the puck drops on Game 1 against the winner of the Toronto and Montreal series, nearly nine days will have passed since Winnipeg last played a playoff game.
"I actually didn't realize it was nine days," said Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. "I had in my head it was six for some reason."
Talk about taking it one day at a time.

Rest can be a weapon, however.
Hellebuyck played every minute of the series against the Oilers - including all 106:52 of Game 4, which went into the wee hours of the morning - and a few days to rest, plus get in some one-on-one work with goaltending coach Wade Flaherty on Saturday, has him primed for the second round.
"I think we have a great coaching staff that manages us the right way. Having some alone time with Flats, where we don't just necessarily have pucks beat at us, but we actually worked on details," said Hellebuyck, who posted a 0.950 save percentage in the first round. "I think that was huge. It's easy in a break like this to kind of get off your game. So to sit back and really work at the details, and not just work hard, but work smart is very important."
That 2018 playoff run brings up memories for the Jets for another reason.
After beating the Nashville Predators in seven games to advance to the Western Conference Final, the Jets had one day of rest (which was used for travel from Nashville to Winnipeg) before Game 1 against the Vegas Golden Knights at Bell MTS Place.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. The Jets are the team sitting and waiting for an opponent, just as Vegas was waiting for them.
"We came out in Game 1 riding a high from winning that series. I thought we kind of dominated Game 1 and how quickly the series kind of turned in their favour," said Copp. "I think that experience, whatever happens in Game 1, we can revert back to that series in the opposite way. Just remember what we were feeling, remember how it went, then take that into account with whatever is happening in the series."
Ironically enough, Vegas was involved in a similar storyline last night.

They came off a seven-game series against the Minnesota Wild and went up against a rested Colorado Avalanche squad, with the Avalanche handily winning Game 1 by a score of 7-1.
"They'll take two days off and Vegas will look completely different, I believe, in the next game," said Maurice. "I don't think you can look at anything in the past and think that's going to give you a predictability for what's going to happen in the future."
In order for the rest to be used as a weapon, the Jets will rely on routine.
When it was announced on Saturday night, shortly after Montreal's overtime victory in Game 6, that the second round would start on Wednesday night, that routine kicked into high gear.
"We'll do video for whoever wins tonight and then our last two days going into the first game will be very, very close to our last two days going into Edmonton," said Maurice. "We want a certain amount of familiarity for the players too and then, this is new for everybody. But what's not new is that it's been the entire year.
"The fact that the NHL is so routine oriented that in a normal NHL year, you can certainly draw on your experiences. But from the get-go, nothing has been the same. So that is now normal for us. This is different, no big deal, you get use to it and you move on."