A hard working win by the Jets as they knock off their division rival Blues this afternoon in Winnipeg to give interim head coach Dave Lowry his first W in his new role. Jets now 14-11-5 on the season.
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:
The Jets lost Nikolaj Ehlers (1st period), Adam Lowry (2nd period) and Dylan DeMelo (3rd period) although all three would return in the same period in which they left the bench.
With the secondary assist on the opening goal for Winnipeg veteran forward Paul Stastny picked his 500th career assist in the NHL.
During the 2nd period we learned that the NHL and NHLPA had agreed to suspend all cross-border games until Christmas which will mean that the Jets game in Dallas on Wednesday is postponed.
Multi point game:
Nikolaj Ehlers 1G 3A
Paul Stastny 2G 1A
Mark Scheifele 1G 1A
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The Jets are scheduled to take Monday off and will practice again on Tuesday. The Morning Papers will still go live at 7 am on illegalcurve.com.
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