WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Jets will look to make it back-to-back wins on back-to-back days when they host the St. Louis Blues at Canada Life Centre on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Jets played one of their best defensive games of the year holding the league\u2019s best team the Colorado Avalanche to just one goal in a 3-1 win on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we were competitive on pucks. We knew that with their talent and skill, and they come in with speed, we did a really good job of protecting the guts of the ice. There were a couple of breakdowns, but (Connor) Hellebuyck was there for those,\u201d said head coach Scott Arniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, I thought we did a really good job managing the game. Doing a good job of getting our five above their five and for the most part we did a strong job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jets are six points out of a playoff spot with time running out and will need to show more consistency than they have for the majority of this week with losses on Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this league, at this time of year, when you get into February and March and April, it\u2019s heavy hockey, it\u2019s a hard hockey. Teams are jockeying to get in, teams are jockeying for positioning in the standings, guys are playing for jobs \u2013 it\u2019s everything,\u201d said Arniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrior to the playoffs, this is the hardest hockey you\u2019re going to see all season long. If you\u2019re not all in, you\u2019re not going to have success, you\u2019re going to be chasing games, and I thought those last couple (of games) weren\u2019t how we needed to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Make sure to watch the Jets pregame show “The Check In” at 11 CT or watch it later on YouTube, X or Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 The Winnipeg Jets will look to make it back-to-back wins on back-to-back days when they host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-538124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538124","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=538124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}