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The Winnipeg Jets host the Colorado Avalanche in a 7pm ct face off tonight at MTS Centre. Jason Smith Bucks Jersey . The (14-14-4) Jets are sixth in the Central Division with 32 points, one point behind fifth place Dallas and one point up on seventh place Nashville. Ondrej Pavelec (10-12-3, 2.73, .913) will start in goal for the Jets. Jets Projected Lines: Ladd-Little-Wheeler Thorburn-Jokinen-Setoguchi Halischuk-Scheifele-Frolik Wright-Albert-Peluso Byfuglien-Enstrom Trouba-Clitsome Ellerby-Stuart Following Tuesdays loss to St. Louis, Winnipegs record against Central Division teams dropped to 3-10-2. Colorado has lost three of their last four games, including Tuesday at home 3-1 to Phoenix. The (20-9) Avalanche are fourth in the Central Division with 40 points, one point behind third place Colorado and three back of second place St. Louis. Semyon Varlamov (13-8, 2.46, .922) will start in goal. Avalanche Projected Lines: OReilly-Statsny-Parenteau Landeskog-Duchene-MacKinnon McGinn-Mitchell-Talbot Bordeleau-Cliché-McLeod Guenin-Johnson Benoit-Sarich Barrie-Holden The only player on either team with points in consecutive games entering tonight is Biscarth, Manitoba native Cody McLeod who has one assist in each of his last two games. Colorado has a 17-0 record when scoring the first goal of the game and are 13-0 when leading after the first period. Tonight is the second of five regular season games between these teams.? Colorado were 3-2 winners in Denver October 27th. Sterling Brown Jersey . - The Seattle Sounders busy off-season continues with the team acquiring defender Chad Marshall from the Columbus Crew in exchange for a 2015 third-round pick and allocation money. Frank Mason Bucks Jersey . Hes recovered from a scary injury and cleared to play. Mingo, who was hospitalized with a bruised lung he sustained in an Aug. https://www.bucksrookiesshop.com/Eric-Bledsoe-City-Edition-Jersey/ . Vincent Lamar Carter is no longer the lean, athletic dynamo who dazzled Raptors fans with eye-popping dunks that posterized even the leagues best defenders.The New York Islanders signed a goaltender to a long-term deal, signifying their expectation that they will be better next season. Numbers Game looks at the Islanders securing the services of Jaroslav Halak. The Islanders Get: G Jaroslav Halak. Halak, 29, was going to be one of the best free agent goaltenders available this summer when the Islanders made a pre-emptive move to acquire him from Washington. While there are ups-and-down in Halaks game from year to year, over the past five years, he has the third-best save percentage among goaltenders with at least 200 games played. Over the same time period, Halak has a .927 save percentage during 5-on-5 play, which puts him in pretty good company. As noted, there have been ups and downs in Halaks performance, with the worst of the downs his 2012-2013 season -- an injury-plagued season in which he finished with an .899 save percentage in 16 games. In every other season, since 2008-2009, Halaks save percentage has ranged from .910 to .926, so there is a good chance that he can provide above-average goaltending for the Islanders and that would represent a significant upgrade. Using Hockey References Goals Saved Above Average, for example, Halak has saved approximately 42 goals above average over the past five years and will effectively be replacing Evgeni Nabokov, who is 11.51 goals above average over those same five years (one of which was spent in Russia), so just on average over those seasons, Halak would provide a five-to-six goal difference and factoring in that Nabokov is 38 and Halak is 29, its clear that Halak is likely to have superior numbers over the next four seasons. Halak signed for four years and $18-million, which is entirely reasonable for a starting goaltender. His cap hit of $4.5-million ranks 15th among goaltenders already signed for next season. The decision to sign Halak and, on the same day, announce that they would be keeping this years first-round pick (meanning that the Islanders 2015 first-round pick goes to Buffalo) is a clear indication that the Islanders expect to rebound from this down season and, believe it or not, thats a perfectly reasonable decision. Pat Connaughton Jersey. They finished 19th in Fenwick Close (unblocked 5-on-5 shot attempts, within one goal in first two periods, tied in third), which is a good measure for puck possession and did so with several notable injuries and players departing via trade, so its fair to think that the Islanders can be a middle of the pack club, with goaltending offering the chance to be a bit above average or, if it goes wrong again, below average. Those expectations will put Halak in the spotlight, but his track record is strong enough to justify the Islanders investment. The Capitals Get: A fourth-round pick. While Halak played well for Washington, after coming over in trade from St. Louis, posting a .930 save percentage in a dozen games, its also not a surprise that Washington might not be inclined to keep him long-term. After all, the Capitals already have Braden Holtby, who has a .919 save percentage in 105 career games, as well as prospect Philip Grubauer (.924 SV% in 19 GP with Capitals) waiting in the wings, so there wasnt a lot of upside to spending on Halak. Of course, this decision cant entirely ignore the fact that the Capitals dont have a general manager since firing George McPhee. Brian MacLellan made out quite well in the interim, however, securing a fourth-round pick in exchange for negotiatiing rights to an asset that the Capitals apparently didnt intend to keep. There isnt a lot of value to a fourth-round pick, maybe a 15% chance that it turns into an NHL player, but for a player that could provide zero value to Washington next season, thats well-played. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. ' ' '