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Oilers, Pickard leave Jets snakebitten 3-1 in final home game of 2025
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Evan Waldner
Dec 29, 2025, 23:28 ESTUpdated: Dec 29, 2025, 23:41 EST
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The Winnipeg Jets were looking to snap a five-game winless skid on Monday night against the Edmonton Oilers in front of a second straight sold-out Canada Life Centre but were ultimately snakebitten 3-1 by the Oilers and Winnipegger Calvin Pickard, who stopped 41 shots in the Jets’ sixth straight defeat.
The opening frame saw no scoring but plenty of good looks for Winnipeg. They outshot Edmonton 15-9 but went 0-for-2 on the power play.
The Oilers opened the scoring eight minutes into the second period when Logan Stanley was stripped of the puck behind the Jets’ net due to the forecheck of Curtis Lazar. The puck popped out to the side of the net, and Max Jones beat an unprepared Connor Hellebuyck for his first of the season.
Former Jets first-round pick Jack Roslovic made it 2-0 at 12:49 of the second period on the power play. A rebound popped off Hellebuyck’s pad to the right side, and Roslovic picked his spot for his 11th of the season.
Despite outshooting the Oilers 11-4 in the middle frame, Winnipeg found itself down a pair after 40 minutes.
Adam Lowry, playing in his 800th NHL game, got the Jets within one 5:46 into the third period, ending a 17-game scoreless drought. Morgan Barron fired a shot off Pickard’s pads, and it bounced right to Lowry in front of the net, where he backhanded it past the Winnipeg native.
The Jets kept pushing and firing pucks at Pickard but could only get one past him. Zach Hyman iced the game at 18:43 with an empty-net goal, his 11th.
The Jets drop to 18-15-3 with the loss, going 0-for-3 on the man advantage, outshooting Edmonton 42-21, and 80-45 in shot attempts.
“Again, it’s us finishing. The finishing aspect. Our power play spent almost the whole time in their end of the rink on our three power plays,” Jets head coach Scott Arniel said postgame. “We had eight quality scoring chances on our power play. When everything seems to be working, we’re scoring three, four, five goals a game, and you’re not talking about this stuff.”
The Jets’ top trio of Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, and Gabriel Vilardi each logged 24+ minutes tonight, Connor 24:15, Scheifele 26:44, and Vilardi 25:09, highlighting just how much of a one-line team Winnipeg is right now. Don’t get me wrong, every line had their chances, including Lowry’s goal, but the top line and first power play unit were absolutely rolling, they just couldn’t buy a goal.
Winnipeg now hits the road for three straight, starting in Detroit against the Red Wings on New Year’s Eve. Puck drop is at 5:30 on Sportsnet.

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