Practice Day Notebook: June 3, 2021

WINNIPEG - For the first time in this edition of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Winnipeg Jets will be trying to bounce back from a loss.
They swept the Edmonton Oilers in the first round, but following the 5-3 loss in Game 1 to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday, they're now in the position of trying to even up the series.
Andrew Copp doesn't believe that will change the team's mindset though.
"I think we've faced enough adversity over the time here that losing one game in the playoffs isn't going to change our belief or our trust in each other," he said Thursday, following the team's meeting prior to an optional skate.

Copp didn't take part in that skate. His 20:14 of ice time was the fourth most among Jets forwards in Game 1, with 6:21 of that split between the penalty kill and power play.

Mark Scheifele's 24:43 of ice time was the most among Jets forwards, but it's his final seconds of ice time that have him in a hearing with the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety on Thursday. He was assessed a major penalty for charging and a game misconduct after a hit on Jake Evans with under a minute to go in regulation.
"I know that the last thing he's out there to do is to try to hurt somebody," Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey said of Scheifele, calling him one of his best friends. "The unfortunate result of the hit and the immediate concern of everybody goes to the safety and health of Jake Evans when he's in obvious distress on the ice."
While the Jets await the result of the hearing, they also have to prepare for Game 2.
Head coach Paul Maurice spoke to every player on the roster as they arrived at the rink, then the team held a meeting to go over video from Game 1.
As for preparing for scenarios, Maurice said his focus was more on themes rather than personnel.
"The team game and what needs to get done here is that we want to improve on aren't related to Mark. It's what you go through after every loss in the playoffs," Maurice said. "You want to deal with it, you want to cut it off and you want a fresh start the next day."
One of the benefits of the Jets depth up front is the number of players with experience in the middle. Copp is one of those players, as is Pierre-Luc Dubois, and the list goes on.
"We have guys up and down the lineup that can play centre. I've kind of been getting used to flipping back and forth between centre and wing over the course of the last few years," said Copp. "We're deeper now than we had been. It's kind of that next-man-up mentality. We've dealt with a lot of injuries, maybe not so much this year, but over the course of my career here. We've handled guys going out pretty well and we've tried to rally around adversity a little bit."
Of course, there is another option at centre for the Jets: Paul Stastny.

The veteran forward missed Game 1 due to injury. Then to make matters worse, Dylan DeMelo left the game after his first shift with a lower-body injury.
Neither player took part in the optional skate on Thursday. Maurice said the team is hoping Stastny feels good enough to play in Game 2, and he's still awaiting an update on DeMelo.
DeMelo spent the entire first round series paired with Morrissey.
"We've had pretty good chemistry going here and it's tough to lose a guy that early," said Morrissey. "all of a sudden you're playing with five D and you're moving things around a lot more and the contribution he's been making to our team in the playoffs to our pairing and my game as well, has been huge. It's definitely tough to lose him. We'll see what happens here and we'll all have to step up if he's not able to go."
If he can't, Maurice said he's already done his due diligence on who will come into the Jets line-up for Game 2 on the back end.

Near the end of the regular season, both Jordie Benn - who played 171 regular season games for the Canadiens from 2017-2019 - and Ville Heinola saw action, so either of those two could be a possibility.
However the line-up looks, the Jets will want to get off to a better start after finding themselves down 2-0 after the first 5:10 of the first period.
"They sort of rode the high of a Game 7 win and came in and played a really great road game, capitalized on their opportunities and played hard defensively," said Maurice. "It took us a while to get going and I thought we got better as the game went on in a lot of areas. It's a long series and our focus today is preparing to play tomorrow and improve on some of the things that we need to do to be a better team in this series."