November was not so kind to the Winnipeg Jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Jets were 31st in points percentage<\/a> in November at .385 per cent a far cry from being 6th in that same category in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s the type of run that gets you in the basement of the league and a lottery pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, seeing the record of 5-8 through November doesn\u2019t seem quite as bad. The issue is, there are becoming so many OT and SO games, so everyone is getting points in the NHL (for reference, just look at the Eastern Conference).<\/p>\n As we know in Oilersnation<\/a>, teams that did well last year have scuffled to begin 2025-26. Florida is languishing at the bottom of the east<\/a>, too. The President\u2019s Trophy winners a year ago at this time had an 18-8 record in 2024 \u2014 heading into tonight\u2019s tilt it\u2019s 14-12-1.\u00a0This weekWhen the Hart Trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> is out, the guy who starts as many games in goal as anyone in the NHL, it\u2019s a massive hole. He just had arthroscopic knee surgery on Nov. 22 and there\u2019s no set timeline for his return yet. With Eric Comrie and Thomas Milic filling in, they\u2019ve gone 3-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n Head coach Scott Arniel seemed particularly frustrated by the team\u2019s rush defence on Tuesday, a 5-1 blowout loss to Buffalo, with a lengthy team chat in the dressing room afterwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty disappointing, that effort,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then Wednesday vs Montreal, better, a point, but a 3-2 loss in the shootout.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the blueprint that we need to look at, and if we do that, we\u2019ll get wins,\u201d Scheifele said. \u201cHopefully, we can build on that game.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday, they got another whack at Buffalo: This time victorious 4-1, setting up a back-to-back spot with Edmonton tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSome of the things that maybe I\u2019ve talked about in the past that weren\u2019t up to speed, I thought tonight as a whole we did a better job,\u201d Arniel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Depth issues<\/p>\n The big boys are scoring like normal, but the depth is ice cold. That reversed in large part Friday, with fourth-liners Tanner Pearson and Cole Koepke lighting the lamp.\u00a0<\/p>\n Cole Perfetti has struggled to find his game offensively after a late start to the season: 2-2\u20134 in his last 13 games played heading into Friday. He scored one and added an assist. <\/p>\n Newly acquired free agent Gustav Nyquist is goalless in 21 games. Adam Lowry has never scored more than 36 points in a season, but has three only right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n It seems like WPG misses the top-six presence of Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> in terms of being a top-flight team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another element that most don\u2019t want to say out loud: Jonathan Toews has struggled. He\u2019s in an ugly rut of being scored against when he\u2019s on the ice, sitting -12 on the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Winnipeg will be interesting to follow if they remain a bubble team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Road stretch<\/p>\n Similar to Edmonton, the Jets have played length stretches on the road. A 6-game roadie in mid-November, then a grueling 5-gamer that wrapped up on Wednesday in Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is just a one-and-done to Alberta for the Jets, who return to friendly confines for four in a row next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n NotesMark Scheifele has seven points (three goals, four assists) during a six-game streak. Wednesday clinched his 30th career point streak of at least five games, passing Blake Wheeler for the most such streaks in Jets\/Atlanta Thrashers franchise history. This year: 14-21\u201335 for the Jets team lead in scoring.\u00a0He also became the Jets\/Thrashers all-time leader in games played<\/a> in November, and franchise leader in points in October, surpassing Blake Wheeler<\/a>.Kyle Connor extended his goal streak to four games. On the year: 15-19\u201334. He signed a massive extension, 8-year, $96 million, in October.Connor recorded his sixth career goal streak of at least four games to tie Scheifele for the second most in franchise history. Iyla Kovalchuk did that 17 times.As you can gather, this is a top-heavy offensive group. Gabe Vilardi has been a wonderful addition, coming from the Kings in the Pierre-Luc Dubois trade. After a career high season of 61 points, he is nearly a point-per-game, 12-12\u201324 in 27GP this year.Josh Morrissey will likely be the only player selected for Team Canada for Milan-Cortina. Here was teammate Dylan DeMelo in the Winnipeg Sun<\/a>: \u201cHe is absolutely a lock\u2026he is on that team, but he won\u2019t say it\u2026He is humble that way.\u201dThe Jets wasted no time and flew to Edmonton right after the game.\u201cWe were joking that the road trip is still going, type of thing. That\u2019s the way you\u2019ve got to look at it. Go to Edmonton and get the job done.\u201d \u2013 Tanner Pearson<\/a>.The Oilers went 1-1-1 in the season-series vs the Jets last go-round, losing both home games, including last year\u2019s home opener in a blowout.The Oilers are 1-2-2 in their last five home games vs WPG.Puck drop is set for 8 PM.ARTICLE PRESENTED BY bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November was not so kind to the Winnipeg Jets.\u00a0 The Jets were 31st in points percentage in November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-329941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329941","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=329941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}