The line rushes and D pairings were as follows:
Laine-Scheifele-Wheeler
Connor-Little-Ehlers
Copp-Lowry-Roslovic
Perreault-Gustafsson-Appleton
Bourque
Morrissey-Poolman
Heinola-Pionk
Dahlstrom-Kulikov
Hellebuyck
Brossoit
For the second straight practice, Bryan Little wore a white jersey and skated between Kyle Connor and Nikolaj Ehlers. The question still remains, will he make his 2019-20 season debut?
"He had a really good day today but we will wait to see how he is tomorrow before we would make a decision," said Maurice.
"He worked really hard and at the end of it, he's got a big smile on his face cause it was fast and it was kind of a hard practice in terms of the pace of it. He handled it fine. He's feeling good."
Should Little return on Sunday, that gives Maurice more options in the match-up game against the NHL's leading scorer McDavid and his wingman Draisaitl. Even though the Jets coach will look to roll out the Scheifele trio against McDavid, it will make his life easier.
"If you miss a rotation or the other guy (coach) goes to three line rotation and you miss him, you've got some coverage." explained Maurice.
Maurice added Anthony Bitteto remains day-to-day and has been put on injured reserve and Mark Letestu (who is also is on IR) has been shut down and needs to have some tests done and those will happen at the end of October. After those tests are done we should know what exactly is ailing the Jets veteran forward.