Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Winnipeg Jets (6-8-2, 14 points) and the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks (9-2-4, 22 points) go head-to-head for the second of four meetings live from the United Center in Chicago. The game can be live streamed here. Winnipeg fans can hear all of the action by turning their dials to TSN Team 1200 while Chicago fans can do the same on 720 WGN Radio.
Winnipeg enters play in last place in the Central Division, 12 points behind division-leading Colorado and are 13th in the 14-team Western Conference while the Blackhawks enter play in second place in the division and are two points behind the Avalanche, while holding down the fourth seed in the conference. Chicago defeated Winnipeg 5-1 at MTS Centre last Saturday.
The Blackhawks met President Barack Obama Monday since they won the Stanley Cup, and the trip also included a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
"Nothing hurts on me now," defenseman Johnny Oduya said per NHL.com. "If you come here sore, nothing hurts now. Not after seeing what these people have been through and their frame of mind. Look at them. All smiling."
The team will get back to business tonight while looking to erase a 3-2 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames Sunday.
The Jets, meanwhile, are coming off of a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings Monday night to snap a three-game losing streak. Al Montoya started his first game in net this season, and made 26 stops en route to the win.
"I thought he played like our team," coach Claude Noel said. "He did the right thing at the right time, made the right saves. I thought he had a good night. He has played that way this year, and did it again."
The Jets will look to stop a Blackhawks team that is led by Patrick Kane (eight goals, five assists) and captain Jonathan Toews (six goals, seven assists) who each have 13 points while Marian Hossa (6-6-12) and Duncan Keith (0-10-10) have each left their mark thus far this season. Hossa has two goals and four assists during a four-game point streak while Keith has an assist in four straight games.
Bryan Little has paved the way for the Jets, lighting the lamp three times in the past four games for a total of eight goals and seven assists for 15 points while Andrew Ladd has four goals and eight assists for 12 points. Evander Kane is third on the team in scoring with nine points off of six tallies and three helpers, but he's sidelined with a lower-body injury.
In net, Corey Crawford has started 13 of 16 games for Chicago and has put up an 8-2-3 record with a 2.19 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage while Ondrej Pavelec has gone 4-7-2 through 13 starts for the Jets with a 3.09 GAA and a .902 save percentage.
The Jets look to build on their recent win while the Blackhawks will hope to bounce back after a rough overtime loss when the lights come on tonight at United Center in Chicago.
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