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Pavelec, Jets get through tough stretch with flying colours posted on 01/22/2015

Ondrej Pavelec sat slumped in his locker stall, the sweat still dripping from underneath his Winnipeg Jets hat a good half hour after the final horn had sounded following the club’s 25th win of the season.

And the look on his mug — it was the same for just about any other player who made an appearance in the dressing room following Sunday’s 4-3 shootout win over the Arizona Coyotes — was that of pure-satisfaction-meets-absolute-exhaustion.

Indeed, there were a lot of smiles underneath bloodshot eyes as the Jets completed their most-gruelling stretch of the 2014-15 campaign, a seven-games-in-11-days stretch that took them from Winnipeg to Arizona to California to Winnipeg to Texas to Chicago and back here to River City.

And they didn’t just survive, they thrived, going 5-1-1 and pulling into a tie with the Blackhawks, who have two games in hand, for fourth spot in the Western Conference.

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Winnipeg Jets Strength Weakness and Stanley Cup Chances posted on 10/16/2014

The Winnipeg Jets finished the 2013-2014 season in the 22nd position and failed to make it through the central division to the playoffs. The season saw the departure of Coach Claude Noel and the entry of the new coach Paul Maurice.

Team’s Performance

The player with the highest number of goals was Blake Wheeler who scored 28 goals. He also finished the season with 69 points. The other top player in the team is Evander Kane. Kane finished the season with 19 goals and 41 points in 63 games.

None of the players in the team can be said to be a Number .1 Player. The team relies on the talents of Evander Kane, Blake Wheeler Andrew Ladd and Dustin Byfuglien. These talents are good, but hardly good enough for the team to perform better than it did in the last season. They need elite talent in the team, if they are to perform better.

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