That Winnipeg Jets game last night against the Boston Bruins, eh? Oof. I know a lot of you probably turned it off early, or just fell asleep trying to make sense of it. Well, if you did, you missed... more of the same, unfortunately. The Boston Bruins absolutely rolled over our Winnipeg Jets, ending in a pretty brutal 6-1 loss. It felt like every time we blinked, the puck was in our net, fer sher. David Pastrnak got them started in the first, and it just kept coming. We managed to get one back on the power play in the third from Johnny Toews, eh, assisted by Elias Salomonsson and Brad Lambert, which was a nice moment for the kids, but by then, it was already 4-0. Felt a bit like trying to stop a prairie windstorm with a screened door.
The key moments, honestly, were mostly Boston's, which is tough to say. L. Reichel and V. Arvidsson really stepped up for them in the second period, and P. Zacha added to that early in the third. It wasn't just one guy, it was a full team effort from the Bruins. Our guys, well, the shots were pretty even at 24-27, but the quality of Boston's chances just felt different, you know? It’s hard to find too many individual bright spots when the scoreline looks like that, even if Johnny Toews' power play goal was a little spark. We just couldn’t seem to get anything sustained going, and that's the real problem, eh?
So, what does this mean for the Winnipeg Jets going forward? We're now 28-29-11, still sitting 6th in the Central, and holding onto that Wildcard #6 spot, but barely. Our last ten games are 5-3-2, so we've been up and down, and this loss breaks our streak. This road trip is proving to be a real grind, and every point right now is critical. Losing like this, especially when we're fighting for playoff positioning, it just hurts. You wake up this morning, and the whole city feels a little... heavier, eh? Like a thick fog rolling in over The Forks. We've got to regroup, and fast. The next few games are absolutely massive, and we need to find that grit again.
Go Jets Go — from the Peg, this is Kate Fehr. You gotta hear what Jay and the morning crew are saying about this one — catch 'em live at mornings.live.