Good gracious. That was fun to watch.
The Winnipeg Jets, at least for one night, stopped the hemorrhaging that is their goals against last night against the Dallas Stars as the Jets handed out their own puck spanking, embarrassing Tyler Seguin and the gang 8-2.
In terms of offense, it was an avalanche for the young Jets, especially the line of Mark Scheifele, Nikolai Ehlers and Patrik Laine, who accounted for 10 points. Laine scored his second hat-trick of the young season while adding an assist. Scheifele scored two while adding two helpers, and Ehlers added two assists to his point total. Call up Nic Petan had a heck of a game as he had two assists as well.
The most amazing part of all this is, at least for the time being, the Winnipeg Jets now have the NHL's leading point-getter in Scheifele who now leads the league with 18 points.
Laine leads not only all rookies in goals, but for now, the entire league with 11. Scheifele is right behind him with nine. It's nice to have a Jet atop the NHL elite for as long as that lasts.
It's always good to have your team blow out someone once in a while. It's not so cool to be on the other end and that will most asuredly happen. The Jets are going to get destroyed in a few games this year, but if they can hand out their own punishment once in a while, that's o.k. As long as they can at least grab a wild card, because honestly, that's all that the Jets can really hope for these days in the tough central division, that's all that matters.
