The Jets dropped their third straight for the first time all season as the Leafs take it 4-1 to fall 27-17-3 to fall eight points back of 1st place Toronto .

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.

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Notable:

Nikolaj Ehlers scored a nifty goal off a beauty feed by Paul Stastny 39 seconds into the 1st period.

A brutal bounce off the boards cost the Jets as it found Connor Hellebuyck out of his net and Mitch Marner put it home.

Jets captain Blake Wheeler got caught by a huge reverse bump which caused him to go down late in the 1st period and head to the room in just his second game back since suffering a concussion.  However he was on the bench to start the 2nd period.

Mark Scheifele was benched (it appears) after the Leafs took a 3-1 lead in the 2nd period after the Jets centre took a long shift during 4-on-4 play and then wasn’t showing much alacrity in returning to the bench for a line change. He played the 3rd period.

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Up next:

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

Highlights:

Post-game Podcast:

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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