Game 12: Flames 3 Jets 2 post-game recap

The Jets win streak ends at two games as the Flames take the concluding game of the four-game mini series which puts the season series at 3-1-1 through five games.  Overall Winnipeg is now 7-4-1 on the season.

For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats here are the results from the game via Natural Stat Trick.

Game Highlights:

Notable:

With two goals Nikolaj Ehlers moved ahead of Dustin Byfuglien into 8th spot all time with 123 career goals for the Jets.

Josh Morrissey played in his 300th game for the Jets.

Mark Scheifele is the first player to hit double digits in a stat this season as he picked up his 10th assist of the season.

Multi point games:

Nikolaj Ehlers 2G
Andrew Copp 2A

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. Did he feel the team was consistent with their play tonight?
2. What did he see from Pierre-Luc Dubois?
3. Late penalty call.
4. His thoughts on his lines composition.
5. Moving Lowry up with Wheeler and Stastny.
6. Pierre-Luc Dubois ability to impose his will in three zones.
7. Late losses.

Up next:

The Jets will return to Winnipeg tomorrow which makes it a travel day (i.e. no practice).  They will face the Senators in a pair of games, the first of which goes Thursday night in the ‘Peg. The Morning Papers will go live at 7 am on illegalcurve.com.

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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