Illegal Curve Hockey

Categories: post-game recapWinnipeg Jets

Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 1 Game 5: Jets 5 Wild 0 post-game recap

Photo Credit: Colby Spence

The Jets had a monumental opening period scoring four times (Trouba, Little, Tanev and Byfuglien) to take a stranglehold on the game. The second period was fairly ho hum aside from news that Joel Armia wouldn’t return after suffering an upper-body injury. The final frame saw Mark Scheifele score his fourth of the playoffs on the power play to give the Jets a 5-0 lead. After that it was simply a matter of running out the clock. Connor Hellebuyck picks up back to back shutouts and for the first time in 31 years the a Winnipeg based NHL team has won a playoff series.

Take a look at the advanced stats via Natural Stat Trick.

Jets post-game audio:

Blake Wheeler

Bryan Little

Dustin Byfuglien

Mark Scheifele

Matt Hendricks

Coach Maurice

Wild post-game audio:

Mikko Koivu

Devan Dubnyk

Eric Staal

Post-game Podcast:

Ezra and Drew break down the game from high atop the ice surface at Bell MTS Place.

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.