Before today’s matchup against the Montreal Canadiens, we take a look at the scoring chances from Sunday’s game against the New Jersey Devils.

*The app I use counts empty net chances as ES

It was yet another relatively slow start for the Jets Sunday night. As a whole, it was a rather boring period of hockey to watch as New Jersey was able to administer their kind of game, and it resulted in them winning the period chance wise. The Jets did get stronger as the game continued on, finding their own game to play and taking over in the later stages.

Special teams were huge on this night. Highlighted by Dustin Byfuglien’s 7 chances-for night on the power play and penalty kill, the Jets were aggressive in both aspects. Despite an elongated 5 on 3 and a total of 5 shorthanded opportunities, the Devils were only able to manage 2 chances. A number that was matched by the Jets while they were shorthanded.

Adam Henrique and Andy Greene were absolutely feasted upon by the Jets. They were also on the ice for Evander Kane’s first goal (it wasn’t recorded as a scoring chance).

Mark Stuart once again finished the night as the Jets worst defenseman. It makes little to no sense that this keeps happening, as his Relative Corsi number of -0.310 is lowest among Jets D. Looking at the fact that Trouba was once again a positive player while away from Stuart, it’s easy to see the weakest link in the chain. It’s time for him to take a seat, and let Postma and Clitsome make up that third pairing.

I thought the line of Jokinen, Tangradi and Setoguchi looked very good together. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. He might not be getting paid like a third line center, but Olli Jokinen has looked very good there thus far this year. Similarly, Devin Setoguchi was not brought in to be a third line guy, but it’ll be interesting to see how that line works.

James Wright did his thing. He was unable to make anything happen at even strength, but was on the ice for 2 chances for during penalty kills. Halischuk did the same. None the less, I’d rather have the two of them making up the fourth line than Chis Thorburn any day.

Not that I was expecting anything to be made out of it, but that was likely Jagr’s final game in Winnipeg. He was dangerous for a lot of the night, despite finishing a -1 o at even strength and a +1 overall.

The Jets match up against the Habs tonight, a team that has seemingly had the Jets number quite literally since day 1 of the return. I will be looking to see if these newly created lines can replicate their success to any degree, and to see if the Jets special teams can continue to be effective. Montreal brings a much faster paced game than the Devils do and will attempt to take things over from the start, so the Jets must be equal to the task. If anything, I hope they are at least able to keep Brendan Gallagher off of the score sheet. Fantasy hockey grudges and all.