Four more points wasted.
The Winnipeg Jets had a two-game home-stand that could have put them in a post-season spot. Or at least within an eyelash of one. But after successive losses to both the streaking Columbus Blue Jackets (a 5-3 decision) and the New York Islanders (a 6-2 embarrassment to yet another team that is below the Jets in the oversll standings-albeit by just one point)
I cannot reiterate this enough and I will continue to preach it, you have to beat the teams below you. These are must-wins. Not a must-win in the sense that it's the playoffs and you're down 3-1 in the series, but a must win in the sense that that game against the Islanders was an easy two points for a better team and one that is supposed to be better than average at home. But where was Scheifele, Byfuglien, Wheeler, Little or Laine? Nikolaj Ehlers scored to represent (yeah, that's right, I said represent. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?)
But where was everyone else? Especially the defence. If Jacob Trouba wants to be paid like a star, one would think he would be producing like one. Kudos goes out to Shawn Matthias for his work on a Jets shot-handed goal. But with the amount of time Connor Hellebyck was left all alone, I'm surprised that all defensive pairings aren't benched. I know, that's ridiculous. But they are really starting to make a rookie goal-tender look even more inexperienced.
But, unbelievably, the Jets, as of this writing, are still only three points out of the second wild-card spot for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
