As good as the Jets played on Saturday, the key now is to do it all over again against another quality opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, because then you can build momentum. You know, shift in, shift out,\u201d said Alex Iafallo who has goals in back-to-back games.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeel like, it’s a big test for us tonight to keep that going. And it’s in the room everybody, you could feel it. So just keep pushing forward. Keep working hard in every zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Part of the Jets issues with consistency has been the penalty kill haven\u2019t looked like they did earlier in the season. Saturday night against a dangerous Capital power play, they were nearly perfect but did give up a late goal 5-on-3. Ottawa arrives in Winnipeg with the fourth best power play in the league with Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle and Jake Sanderson just a few of the names that have been terrorizing the NHL.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had a good power play for numerous years. They have really good players. They score multiple ways on it,\u201d said Dylan DeMelo.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously Tkachuk in front of the net causing a lot of havoc, they got great D that are good at getting pucks through and they\u2019ve got shooters on each flank so it\u2019s a big task.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jets saw a renewed offensive performance from their depth forwards following a group of new-look forward lines on Saturday. Most notably, the Jets line of Morgan Barron, Adam Lowry, and Alex Iafallo led the offence. Barron and Iafallo both found the back of the net for the second consecutive game, with Iafallo also tallying an assist. Lowry also recorded two assists in the game, marking his first multi-point effort of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it’s fun playing with them. A lot of chances down low, solid defensively. Obviously, Lows, taking all those draws, winning those battles is huge for us. Starting with the puck like that,\u201d said Iafallo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got a lot more offensive draws too. So, you know, that helped out getting those and getting some shots through. Bear he\u2019s got so much speed down the line there, in the corners winning all those battles. We\u2019re going to keep doing that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jets have posted a 6-4-0 record in the last 10 games against the Senators and a 4-1-0 record in the last five. Winnipeg won both games against Ottawa to sweep the season series last year.<\/p>\n
Puck drop is scheduled for 6:30 CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As good as the Jets played on Saturday, the key now is to do it all over again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-350173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}