Game 54: Jets 4 Coyotes 3 post-game report

The Jets are now 32-13-9 with the 4-3 win the Coyotes.  They are 20-3-2 at Bell MTS Place.

For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats here are the results from tonight’s game via Natural Stat Trick.

Notable:

– Jets wore military uniforms in pre-game warm up;
– Today was Dustin Byfuglien’s 800th NHL game;
– Jack Roslovic opened the scoring with a ripper, giving him goals in back to back games;
– Dustin Byfuglien showed his hand eye isn’t suffering batting one out of the air;
– In his first NHL game of the season Nic Petan scored to give the Jets a 3-1 lead;
– Dmitry Kulikov become the third Jets player this game to score his third goal of the season;
– Connor Hellebuyck improves to 26-6-8 on the season.

Jets audio:

Dustin Byfuglien

Dmitry Kulikov

Nic Petan

Jack Roslovic

Coach Maurice:  Overall thoughts on the game.  Good sign that the team still won even when Hellebuyck wasn’t at his best.  Risk of putting young players in dealing with excess energy.  Winning 20 of 25 at home, what’s this telling him bigger picture about his team?

Coyotes audio:

Antti Raanta

Derek Stepan

Coach Tocchet

David Minuk

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