Welp.

Being that it was the second half of a road back-to-back effort and their third game in four nights against a red hot Vegas Golden Knights club, you may not have expected much from the Winnipeg Jets tonight, but I don’t think any of us expected such a white washing either as the Knights deny a playoff clinching night for the Jets with a 5-0 win.

Let’s make this quick.

A crazy start to the period with Blake Wheeler fighting Mark Stone as Stone took a bit of a shot at Wheeler, and then a minute later the Knights take a 1-0 lead on a William Karlsson goal. The Knights make it 2-0 off a bad Joe Morrow turnover and while the 5 on 5 scoring chances are a decent 7-5 margin for the Knights, the shots are 16-10 and it feels like the Jets are very much skating on fumes to start the game.

At the end of the first period it had appeared that Jets starting goalie Laurent Brossoit was injured, but he started the second period even though he was clearly laboring through whatever pain he was in. There was already talk of replacing him with Connor Hellebuyck when the Knights scored their third goal – a short-handed tally from Tomas Nosek.

Up until that third goal, it actually looked like the Jets were playing a bit better and were going to make of game of things, but the third goal proved to be a bit of a back breaker as the ice tilted in Vegas’ favor for the remainder of the period and a pair of quick goals 25 seconds apart late in the second absolutely sunk any Jets hopes on this night.

No goals were scored for. No goals were scored against. Score effects weren’t a thing in this game as vegas continued to play steady while the Jets just looked like they wanted to break even for 20 minutes and then go the hell home.

Look, the real issue here is we’ve all just watched three late games in four nights. Some of us have possibly OD’d on coffee and we should maybe even appreciate the Jets and Knights efforts to take all the drama out of this game so early in the evening, lest we would have looked like Phillip J Fry after 100 coffees…

Those of you who stayed up to watch all three late games this week, I deem you all playoff ready!

Let’s hope the Jets can get that way in the next two weeks as well starting with Nashville at home on Saturday.