One of the top teams in the East came to Winnipeg and the Jets handed the Lightning an unexpected 4-1 loss as the home team played a complete game and got help across the board with this victory to run their points streak to five games (3-0-2).
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:
We weren’t sure it would happen based on head coach Scott Arniel’s comments this morning but he did leave himself some wiggle room regarding roster management purposes and it turns out they held out Luke Schenn and Logan Stanley.
Kyle Connor tied Nikolaj Ehlers for 5th most games in a Winnipeg Jets jersey with 674. He’d be 8th all-time if you include Jets 1.0.
It took 40 games but Gustav Nyquist has his first goal as a member of the Winnipeg Jets.
Multi Point Game:
Mark Scheifele 1G 1A
Kyle Connor 1G 1A
Tanner Pearson 2A
Highlights:
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Up next:
The Jets are scheduled to practice tomorrow at 12 noon. Start your day with the Morning Papers which will go live at 7 AM CST tomorrow on illegalcurve.com and remember it is Trade Deadline day which concludes at 2 PM CST. We will hear from GM Kevin Cheveldayoff likely between 3 PM and 4 PM CST. All of which will be covered on this site and our YouTube channel.
Podcast:
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