And breathe. Given the hot start the Carolina Hurricanes had to start the season, combined with the Jets missing their best defenseman in Dustin Byfuglien and starting the great unknown in Laurant Brossoit, a lot of fans cringed at the thought about just how bad Sunday night’s game could have turned out.
With Nic Petan coming off non-roster player status for the Jets, the team needed to make a player move to fit him back into the roster and while many thought that the Jets would send brendan Lemieux to the Manitoba Moose due to his waiver exempt status, it’s Marko Dano the Jets moved to the waiver…
A tough night for the Jets as a crazy second period filled with all kinds of frustration and penalties does them in. It was a huge topic of discussion with the players and Paul Maurice after the game…
For 20 minutes, this game was all kinds of fun. And then it stopped being fun. Bad turnovers, undisciplined play, questionable officiating that led to more undisciplined play and some strong goaltending from Pekka Rinne did in the Winnipeg Jets on this night as they fall right back to .500 after a 3-0 loss in Nashville.
Welcome to week two of JetsNation picks, where our group of plucky writers go against each other and our weekly guest picker in order to find out who can see the future the best. In this round of picks, we show way too much faith in Toronto, Dallas and St. Louis and probably not enough in…
The Winnipeg Jets looked good early and hang on for the 2-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings to open the 2018-19 season at home. Here are some of the players as well as head coach Paul Maurice’s thoughts on the game as well as metrics and shot charts from the contest.
The Jets got back to basics a little bit in their 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night to open things up at home for the 2018-19 season Mark Scheifele scored his first of the year and Kyle Connor scored his third in as many games to win the game in the…
Everyone loves the pomp and hype of a home opener and the Jets come into this home opener with all kinds of hype and you can just get feel the excitement as the 2018-19 edition of the Winnipeg Jets were introduced onto the ice before Tuesday’s contest. In case you didn’t have a chance to…
Home Sweet Home The Jets will get to play in front of the Winnipeg faithful for the first time in the 2018-19 regular season and they do so with the challenge of looking to play a cleaner, calmer game than they had on Saturday when bad penalties and poor special teams play sunk them against…
After two games on the road to open the season, the Jets are back in the friendly confines of Bell MTS Place and hosting the Los Angeles Kings who start a four game road swing through Canada starting tonight in Winnipeg before going to Montreal on Thursday and then through Ontario this weekend. This we…
A one and one start to the season hasn’t eased the worry Jets fans have about some players that have been a concern for a while. The biggest of these worries might be Nik Ehlers who played just 10:31 in the game against St. Louis and while he had a few more minutes worth of…
It’s like I’ve always said. You may be able to beat the Dallas Stars nine out of ten times, but you simply can’t do it ten out of eleven. It’s impossible. The Winnipeg Jets proved that by looking bad early and often as the Stars coasted to a 5-1 win.
