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11-04-2025
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Jets Earn Both Points in Sunday Afternoon Test With Vancouver
Photo by James Carey Lauder/USA Today The Winnipeg Jets have improved to 51-19-4 thanks to a 3-1 home victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday afternoon. The game was decided in the third period, as Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti provided goals that pushed Vancouver further and further down the Western Conference playoff race. Advertisement Kyle Connor scored Winnipeg's first goal in the second period on Sunday - his 38th of the season - after Pius Suter gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the opening frame. But it was in the third where the Jets' depth wingers took over. First, it was Appleton who gave Winnipeg its first lead of the game with 13 minutes to play, before Perfetti dazzled with a sensational solo effort, beating Thatcher Demko with a wrist shot after a nifty toe drag. Winnipeg finished the game with 27 shots to Vancouver's 24. Connor Hellebuyck picked up his 43rd win of the season, making him just the third goaltender since 2001 with multiple seasons of 43+ wins. The matinee affair was Winnipeg's final test of a four-game homestand, to which the Jets will now hit the road for three games out west next week. Contests with Los Angeles, Vegas and Utah are on tap for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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03-04-2025
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Which Team Should The Avalanche Want To Play In Round One Of The Playoffs -- The Winnipeg Jets Or Dallas Stars?
Nathan MacKinnon (James Carey Lauder, USA TODAY Images) Barring some drastic change in the remaining weeks of the NHL's 2024-25 regular season, the Colorado Avalanche are more or less locked into third place in the highly-competitive Central Division. However, the two teams currently above them in the Central -- the first-place Winnipeg Jets and second-place Dallas Stars -- aren't nearly as secure in where they are at the moment. Advertisement Indeed, with the Jets having another eight games left to play, and with the Stars having another nine games left, there could be a switching of positions beween the two teams. Winnipeg presently has 106 standings points, while Dallas has 100 points with a game in hand on the Jets. So, with that in mind, which of the Jets or Stars should the Avalanche hope to play in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs? For a few different reasons, we're going to argue that the Avs should be hoping Winnpeg slides to second place and Colorado gets the Jets in the opening round. Why? Well, for one thing, the Stars are arguably the deepest team in the league after the addition of star winger Mikko Rantanen. And Winnipeg's recent playoff history has been far from ideal -- and not nearly as good as Dallas' recent playoff runs. To that end, last season, the Avalanche beat the Jets in the first round, before Colorado fell to the Stars in Round Two. So you can see why the Avs would probably prefer to take on Winnipeg in the opening round. Now, the season series between Colorado and Dallas and Winnipeg would suggest the Stars should be the Avalanche's preferred first-round opponent. The Avs went 2-1-0 against Dallas this season, and they only went 1-2-1 against Winnipeg. In addition, the Jets have the best goaltender in the league in Connor Hellebuyck, and Winnipeg has been slightly more dominant than the Stars. Advertisement That said, Dallas also has an elite goalie in Jake Oettinger, and the Stars also have the best defeseman (other than Avs superstar Cale Makar and Canucks star Quinn Hughes) in Miro Heiskanen. This is to say it's going to be very difficult for Colorado no matter who they get in the first round, because in the second round, the Avalanche is almost assuredly going to take on either Dallas or Winnipeg. Still, if we were an Avalanche fan and we had to choose either the Stars or Jets in Round One, we'd pick the Jets without hesitation. Winnipeg simply hasn't proven itself worthy of being a favorite in the post-season, and Dallas has continually proven itself to be a team that can win at least a round or two. The Avs should want to avoid the Stars until the second round -- or even more ideally, they ought to hope that Dallas is eliminated in the first round -- and that means taking on the Jets in the first round. Time will tell if we're right in that regard, but one way or another, the Avalanche are going to get a tough test right off the hop. And the way they respond in Round One will set the table for their subsequent destiny.
