Flames at Jets preview

FLAMES (22-12-3) at JETS (24-10-2)
8 p.m. ET; TSN3, SNW, NHL.TV

Lowry missed two games with an upper-body injury while Copp missed 10 with a concussion. The Jets have won two straight and 11 of their past 13 (11-2-0).
Goalie Connor Hellebuyck starts for the Jets. He is one win shy of 100 for his NHL career (99-50-15).
The Flames look to avoid extending a season-long losing streak to four games. Calgary was 8-1-0 in nine games before going 0-2-1 in their past three. The Flames have allowed two goals or fewer in six of their past nine games.
Goalie David Rittich gets the start for Calgery. In 20 games this season, Rittich is 11-4-2 with a 2.29 goals-against average, .923 save percentage and one shutout.

Players to watch

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau has six points (three goals, three assists) in his past four games and 29 points (10 goals, 19 assists) in his past 18.
Jets forward Mark Scheifele has 17 points (six goals, 11 assists) in his past seven games, and multiple points in six of his past eight.

They said it

"The challenge is coming off the time off. It's the time off and getting back to work. Everyone had a real good break around the league and now you have to dig in, go to work and keep your game simple to be successful." -- Flames coach Bill Peters
"Simplicity. Just try to do everything as fast as we can. Don't try to do anything special early on, just do everything as fast as possible and, hopefully, by the second half of the game, we're going." -- Jets forward Blake Wheeler

Flames projected lineup

Johnny Gaudreau -- Sean Monahan -- Elias Lindholm
Matthew Tkachuk -- Mikael Backlund -- Sam Bennett
Alan Quine -- Mark Jankowski -- James Neal
Michael Frolik -- Derek Ryan -- Garnet Hathaway
Mark Giordano -- TJ Brodie
Noah Hanifin -- Travis Hamonic
Oliver Kylington -- Rasmus Andersson
David Rittich
Mike Smith
Scratched: Ryan Lomberg, Austin Czarnik, Dalton Prout
Injured: Juuso Valimaki (lower body), Michael Stone (blood clot)

Jets projected lineup

Nikolaj Ehlers -- Mark Scheifele -- Blake Wheeler
Kyle Connor -- Bryan Little -- Patrik Laine
Mathieu Perreault -- Adam Lowry -- Brandon Tanev
Andrew Copp -- Jack Roslovic -- Mason Appleton
Josh Morrissey -- Jacob Trouba
Ben Chiarot -- Dustin Byfuglien
Dmitry Kulikov -- Tyler Myers
Connor Hellebuyck
Laurent Brossoit
Scratched: Joe Morrow, Nic Petan, Brendan Lemieux
Injured: None

Status report

Lemieux and Petan will be healthy scratches for Winnipeg.

Stat pack

Tkachuk has nine points (three goals, six assists) in his past six games. … Monahan has 14 points (eight goals, six assists) in his past 12 games. ... Giordano has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his past eight games. … Hanifin is one point shy of 100 in the NHL. … Wheeler has 23 points (two goals, 21 assists) in his past 15 games. ... Ehlers has 10 points (six goals, four assists) in his past eight games.