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“It’s time to end that stuff,” Arniel said after Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth. “It’s about playing a 60-minute game in this league.”
Published Oct 28, 2025 • 3 minute read
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Nearly three weeks into the regular season, and Jets head coach Scott Arniel is on slow boil with his team’s middling and inconsistent play.
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“It’s time to end that stuff,” Arniel said after Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth. “It’s about playing a 60-minute game in this league. What we did in the first period (against Utah) was hard work and it has to happen each and every shift and it has to happen from all four lines and all of our defencemen.”
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The second period on Sunday started brightly with Dylan DeMelo spotting the Jets a 1-0 lead 45 seconds into the second period. Utah then responded with two goals 64-seconds apart, Mikhail Sergachev and Michael Carcone filling the net behind Connor Hellebuyck. The Jets got on even terms when Mark Scheifele knotted the game with a powerplay marker at 15:09.
Dylan Guenther grabbed the game-winning goal at 14:24 of the final frame. Guenther has five goals this season. He leads the league in game-winning goals with four.
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Despite the even numbers on the scoreboard after 40 minutes Arniel wasn’t pleased with the effort calling it “way too sloppy, way too easy for the opposition.”
All the check points that go into making the Jets a winning hockey club–getting the puck in deep, defending from the inside out, attacking the net and thinking the game through—didn’t happen enough in the second.
At least, not to Arniel’s liking.
“That’s our DNA, our work ethic and compete level, and I didn’t like what (I) saw in the second period,” he said.
DeMelo essentially said the same thing with his post-game remarks.
“The goals obviously stand out because they were goals, but there was just stuff throughout the game– things we preach on all year that we haven’t been able to do for 60 minutes with regards to gaining zones, getting pucks in, establishing our forecheck,” DeMelo said. “It seems like the second period has been our Achilles heel in regard to our drop off, for some reason.”
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DeMelo’s tally, a point shot that pinged off the right post behind netminder Vitek Vanecek, was his first goal of the season.
Utah outshot the Jets 16-8 in the middle stanza. The locals have been outshot 116 to 81 in the second period heading into NHL action on Tuesday night. According to Natural Stat Trick, the Mammoth had nine high danger chances with six of them occurring in the second period.
“(The second period problems) seem to be a little bit of a recurring theme,” defenceman Josh Morrissey said.
Morrissey notched his 300th assist when he drew the primary assist on Scheifele’s eighth goal of the season. Morrissey assisted on both Winnipeg goals. He also picked up three assists in the home win over Calgary on Friday night. He has six assists, dating back to last Monday against the Flames. The Calgary native reached 300 helpers in 671 regular-season games.
Despite the lack of on-ice consistency in October, Arniel plans to keep “hammering it home.”
“It’s stuff that we’ve been showing, and we’ve been talking about it,” Arniel said. “And it’s going to be one of those situations that doesn’t get any better unless we start to do it on a consistent basis for each and every period.”
The Jets are in Minnesota on Tuesday night to play the Wild for their first regular season encounter with this Central Division foe.
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