The Jets and Oilers decided to play some firewagon hockey tonight in Edmonton to kick off this four-game road trip for Winnipeg. It was chaotic, it was entertaining, and for the Jets it was successful as they held on for a 6-5 regulation win, after blowing leads of 4-1 and 5-2. The Jets improve to 9-5-1 on the season.
For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats click here to see the results from the game via Natural Stat Trick.
Game Highlights:
Notable:
Mark Scheifele is the first Jets player to eclipse the 20 point mark for the 2020-2021 season.
Nikolaj Ehlers is the first Jets player to hit double digits in goals as he scored his 10th of the season.
Mason Appleton’s goal gave him 4G 5A on the season which is one more than he had all of last season in 41 fewer games. Appleton is now one back of his career high for points which he set in 2018-19 and also one back of tying his high for goals with five which he set last season.
With that game-winner by Blake Wheeler he moves into a tie with Bryan Little for second overall for the franchise with 32.
Multi point games:
Mark Scheifele 1G 2A
Kyle Connor 1G 1A
Blake Wheeler 1G 1A
Neal Pionk 2A
Player availability:
Coach availability:
Topics:
1. Thoughts on what Pionk/Forbort did handling McDavid?
2. Slot tip goals in the NHL.
3. Did it feel like the 1980s out there?
4. What is most underappreciated parts of Neil Pionk’s game?
5. Physicality of Neal Pionk’s game.
6. How do you make it more of a grinder on Wednesday?
Up next:
The Jets are scheduled to practice tomorrow ahead of their next game which will be a re-match with the Oilers on Wednesday night. The Morning Papers will go live tomorrow at 7 am on illegalcurve.com.
