Third periods have been a pain for the Winnipeg Jets this season Globe_Sports
Associate coach Jamie Kompon and head coach Paul Maurice of the Winnipeg Jets during a time-out in action against the St. Louis Blues in Game One of the Western Conference First Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Bell MTS Place on April 10, 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Hockey slowly evolves – but at least most rule changes improve the game.
Third periods have been a pain this season for the Jets. When they let a 1-0 lead slip away Wednesday night and watched the St. Louis Blues score twice in the third period to win 2-1 in Game 1 of the opening round of the playoffs, it marked the 10th time in 2018-19 that the Jets let a game slip away.
“Who was the last team to go 16-0 in the playoffs?” Wheeler asked. “Has that ever happened? We didn’t expect to do that.” In Tampa Bay, they cancelled practice and held meetings. The players there carried much the same message to the gathered media as was delivered in Winnipeg: Don’t change, keep working, keep it simple, chip pucks in, stay with the plan. There needs be no media availability to know these will be the fallback answers.
Blues captain Ryan O’Reilly, who successfully took several key faceoffs as the game wound down, thought that his team stole the game a bit. Teammate Alex Steen, who was born in Winnipeg, said it was more a case of the Blues’ confidence growing as the game moved along. “We got two huge goals there in the third.”
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