Overview
- Winnipeg hosts Toronto at Canada Life Centre on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET in the clubs’ season-series finale.
- The Jets have won four straight, including a 6-2 victory in Minnesota highlighted by Mark Scheifele’s goal and three assists.
- William Nylander is out for Toronto, with the forward ruled unavailable after leaving Thursday’s game with a lower-body issue.
- Connor Hellebuyck is slated to start for Winnipeg, and Dennis Hildeby gets the start in goal for the Maple Leafs.
- Toronto won the Jan. 1 meeting 6-5 on an Auston Matthews hat trick and enters 6-1-3 in its last 10, while Winnipeg remains without defensemen Haydn Fleury, Neal Pionk and Colin Miller.