\u201cIt’s time to end that stuff,\u201d Arniel said after Sunday\u2019s 3-2 loss to the Utah Mammoth. \u201cIt’s about playing a 60-minute game in this league.”<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n You can save this article by registering for free here<\/a>. Or sign-in<\/a> if you have an account.<\/p>\n Nearly three weeks into the regular season, and Jets head coach Scott Arniel is on slow boil with his team\u2019s middling and inconsistent play.<\/p>\n Advertisement 2<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY<\/p>\n Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.<\/p>\n Exclusive columns by Ryan Stelter, Paul Friesen, Ted Wyman, Scott Billeck, Lorrie Goldstein, Warren Kinsella and others. 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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.\u201d<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The Winnipeg Sun’s Daily Headline News<\/p>\n Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Advertisement 3<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Despite the even numbers on the scoreboard after 40 minutes Arniel wasn\u2019t pleased with the effort calling it \u201cway too sloppy, way too easy for the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n All the check points that go into making the Jets a winning hockey club\u2013getting the puck in deep, defending from the inside out, attacking the net and thinking the game through\u2014didn\u2019t happen enough in the second.<\/p>\n At least, not to Arniel\u2019s liking.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s our DNA, our work ethic and compete level, and I didn\u2019t like what (I) saw in the second period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n DeMelo essentially said the same thing with his post-game remarks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe goals obviously stand out because they were goals, but there was just stuff throughout the game\u2013 things we preach on all year that we haven\u2019t been able to do for 60 minutes with regards to gaining zones, getting pucks in, establishing our forecheck,\u201d DeMelo said. \u201cIt seems like the second period has been our Achilles heel in regard to our drop off, for some reason.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement 4<\/p>\n This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n DeMelo\u2019s tally, a point shot that pinged off the right post behind netminder Vitek Vanecek, was his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0in the second period.<\/p>\n \u201c(The second period problems) seem to be a little bit of a recurring theme,\u201d defenceman Josh Morrissey said.<\/p>\n Morrissey notched his 300th assist when he drew the primary assist on Scheifele\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Despite the lack of on-ice consistency in October, Arniel plans to keep \u201chammering it home.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s stuff that we\u2019ve been showing, and we\u2019ve been talking about it,\u201d Arniel said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s going to be one of those situations that doesn\u2019t get any better unless we start to do it on a consistent basis for each and every period.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jets are in Minnesota on Tuesday night to play the Wild for their first regular season encounter with this Central Division foe.<\/p>\n Article content<\/p>\n Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breadcrumb Trail Links SportsHockeyNHLWinnipeg Jets \u201cIt’s time to end that stuff,\u201d Arniel said after Sunday\u2019s 3-2 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-246744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Fred](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HKN-Mammoth-Jets-Online.jpg\")
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