Game 27: Jets 5 vs Leafs 2 post-game recap

Jets improve to 17-8-2 on the season courtesy of their 5-2 win over the Leafs as they conclude the five-game road trip with a big win.

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.

Illegal Curve Post-Game Show:

Game Highlights:

Notable:

Mason Appleton continues to add to his career goal totals as he scored his eighth of the season.

With the assist on the second Jets goal Mark Scheifele is now alone in 4th spot on the all-time franchise assist list with 288.

Paul Stastny scored his fifth goal in the last six games.

Logan Stanley got his first NHL point with the secondary assist on Stastny’s goal in the 2nd.

In a normal season Nikolaj Ehlers would be on pace for a 40+ goal season. And that’s not seeing time on PP1.

Mark Scheifele slides ahead of Auston Matthews into 5th overall in NHL scoring with his power play goal in the 3rd period. He’s up to 12G 23A for 35PTS in 27GP.

Multi point games:

Mark Scheifele 1G 1A
Adam Lowry 1G 1A
Mason Appleton 1G 1A
Andrew Copp 2A

Player availability:

Coach availability:

Topics discussed included:

1. What did they do well without the puck?
2. Play of the Jets 3rd line.
3. Did they discover how to limit the Leafs team?
4. Putting Morrissey and DeMelo together?
5. How would he assess the series against the Leafs?
6. What could that 7-1 game from last week do for the team today?
7. On the disallowed goal.
8. Adversity in the 2nd, what did team do well to respond?

Up next:

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

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