Game 17: Canucks 3 Jets 2 post-game recap

Thatcher Demko made a number of game-saving stops, allowing the Canucks to hold on for a 3-2 victory. The Jets drop to 9-4-4 on the season with the rare regulation time defeat.

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.

Notable:

After starting off a bit slow (for him) Nikolaj Ehlers up to six goals on the season including three straight games with a tally.

Ehlers now has 316 points (142 goals + 174 assists) as a member of the Jets which puts him 100 points back of Dustin Byfuglien who sits 5th overall on the all-time franchise points leader.

Pierre-Luc Dubois has 10 goals in 17 games for the Jets.

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Up next:

The Jets are off tomorrow. The Morning Papers which will go live at 7 am on illegalcurve.com.

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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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