Winnipeg falls 4–3 to Caps in Washington as Jets losing streak grows to three

The Jets push to tie the game comes up short and they lose the Southleast reunion against the Caps 4-3 to start off the road trip with an L. They have now lost seven of their last ten games going 4-7-0 in November. That is not good. They are 12-10-0 sitting three points back of the second wild card spot.

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.

Multi Point Game:

Kyle Connor 3A
Gabriel Vilardi 2G

Notable:

With his second goal of the game Gabriel Vilardi got to the 100 goal mark for his career.

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Up next:

The Jets are off to Carolina where they will practice on Thursday. Start your day with the Morning Papers which will go live at 7 AM CDT tomorrow on illegalcurve.com and then check back for the Practice Report.

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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