Game 16: Oilers 3 Jets 2 post-game recap

The Jets couldn’t overcome the Oilers two early goals, dropping this penalty-filled contest by a 3-2 margin. Jets drop to 9-6-1 on the season, with the road-trip continuing on Friday in Vancouver.

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:

With his power-play goal in the 1st period Mark Scheifele is one back of Patrik Laine for third spot on the all-time franchise list. Seven back of Bryan Little for second spot.

Scheifele moved into sole possession of fifth spot in NHL scoring with 22 points in 16 games. He’s also on an eight-game points streak with five goals and seven assists during that time.

With the assist on the second Jets goal Nikolaj Ehlers now has 150 assists in his career.

Multi point games:

Josh Morrissey 2A

Player availability:

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Topics:

1. Did they get enough pucks to the net to set up second & third opportunities.
2. On the two quick goals against.
3. On the activation of the defence.
4. Lack of flow and if that caused frustration.|
5. What has he noticed about Mark Scheifele’s play during this stretch run?

Up next:

The Jets are off tomorrow.  They will be back on the ice on Friday as they play their third game of the road trip in BC against the Canucks. The Morning Papers will go live tomorrow at 7 am on illegalcurve.com.