Game 23: Jets 4 Canadiens 3 in OT post-game recap

The Jets won tonight’s game 4-3 over the Montreal Canadiens as they continue their overtime dominance. Pierre-Luc Dubois scored the OT winner on a nice feed from Nik Ehlers. The Jets improve to 15-7-1 on the season and are 6-1-0 in their last seven games.

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:

Back-to-back games with a goal for Mathieu Perreault

As pointed out by Perreault in his post-game media availability all four Winnipeg goals were scored by players born in Quebec.

Derek Forbort had 11 blocked shots (which according to JetsPR is a franchise record).

PLD has the most OT goals (6) from the 2016 draft class (according to NHL Stats).

Multi point game:

Paul Stastny 2G

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics:

1. The play defensively by his forwards in OT.
2. The Jets maintaining their composure after giving up a late goal.
3. What Mathieu Perreault offers to his team.
4. His concern with the way the 2nd period went after their 1st?
5. Playing with Paul Stastny.

Up next:

The Jets are scheduled to practice tomorrow before they finish off their second straight game on Saturday night against the Habs in Montreal during this five game road trip. The Morning Papers will go live tomorrow 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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