Scoring has been an issue for Boston without one of its top forwards, but the Bruins' next opponent has typically been quite generous in visits over the past seven seasons.

This year, however, the Winnipeg Jets have been one of the league's best road teams and are looking to complete a perfect three-game trip tonight with their first win in Boston in 13 tries.

Viewers in the Jets region can watch the game live on TSN3 at 6pm ct. or listen to the game live on TSN Radio 1290 Winnipeg, with coverage starting at 5pm ct.

This Winnipeg team, however, has been a bit stronger defensively, particularly on the road. The Jets (12-9-3) are tied for the most road wins in the NHL with a 8-4-2 away mark, thanks in large part to limiting their hosts to a league-low 1.93 goals per game.

Competition hasn't exactly been the stiffest in the first two games of the trip: a 4-2 win Tuesday in Columbus before Thursday's 2-1 victory over Buffalo.

For coach Paul Maurice, it was another "ugly" road win, and he's just fine with continuing on that way.

"It's what we're good at," Maurice said. "That's the kind of people that we have - they're a highly competitive group and we can suffer some adversity over the course of the game and manage to survive."

Bryan Little scored for a third straight game, and it came on the power play. The Jets are 3 for 7 on the trip after going 0 for 22 over their previous seven games. They're 5-1-0 when scoring on the advantage, but their 11.5 percent season mark is 28th in the league.

Boston hasn't even been developing power-play opportunities recently with a 0-for-8 mark in five games.

In goal, the Jets' Ondrej Pavelec made 19 saves against Buffalo and won for the first time in six starts. He's still got a 2.89 goals-against average in that time after beginning the season with a 1.98 through 14 games.

In Boston, Pavelec is 0-6-1 with a 4.00 GAA in eight starts.

That could lead Winnipeg to turn to Michael Hutchinson, who was originally drafted by Boston. Hutchinson has seen some increased playing time lately, and he might deserve more after posting a league-best 1.07 GAA over a 4-0-1 stretch this month.

Tuukka Rask didn't follow up his Vezina Trophy-winning campaign with the strongest start to the season, but he's posted a 1.51 GAA over a 2-1-1 stretch. Against the Jets, he's 8-4-0 with a 1.98 GAA.

The Bruins (13-9-1) have 11 goals in seven games and two in consecutive defeats after Monday's 3-2 home overtime loss to Pittsburgh as they try to work through the ongoing absence of David Krejci. The team's points leader from a season ago has been limited to 11 games this season and has missed the last three with an undisclosed injury.

He and defensemen Adam McQuaid (thumb) and Zdeno Chara (knee) remain out, but center Chris Kelly has returned to practice after missing three games with an upper-body injury.

Boston is 7-4-0 with 3.18 goals per game when Krejci plays and 6-5-1 with 1.83 when he's out, but forward Brad Marchand isn't getting too down on his team's current form.

"I thought we had a pretty good game overall. That's how it goes sometimes," Marchand said. "Sometimes you have bad games and you win and have good games and lose. We did get one point. We want to continue to build."

That could certainly happen with the Winnipeg-Atlanta franchise having dropped 12 straight in Boston while allowing the Bruins 3.92 goals per game.

Jets Projected Lines

Forwards

Ladd-Little-Wheeler

Kane-Scheifele-Byfuglien

Halischuk-Perreault-Frolik

Thorburn-Slater-Peluso

Defence

Clitsome-Bogosian

Stuart-Trouba

Pardy-Postma

Goalies

Hutchinson

Pavelec 

Bruins Projected Lines

Forwards

Marchand-Bergeron-Pastmak

Lucic-Soderberg-Eriksson

Smith-Kelly-Griffith

Paille-Campbell-Gagne

Defence

Seidenberg-Krug

Bartkowski-Miller

Morrow-Hamilton

Goalies

Rask

Svedberg