{"id":552990,"date":"2026-03-22T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:56:18","slug":"winnipeg-jets-let-must-win-slip-away-fall-5-4-in-shootout-to-penguins-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552990\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets let must-win slip away, fall 5-4 in shootout to Penguins \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets showed some battle but not enough attention to detail as they let this one slip away with their failure to hold a 3rd period lead.<\/p>\n<p>For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats click here to see the results from the game via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalstattrick.com\/game.php?season=20252026&amp;game=21099&amp;view=limited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Natural Stat Trick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notable:<\/p>\n<p>The ethical tank folks had to be \u201chappy\u201d with the start by the visitors as the Jets gave up two goals in 2:02 to start the game and found themselves down 2-0 rather quickly to start this game,<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Barron tied his career high in goals with his 11th of the season in what I\u2019m sure <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2035407393480180189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it will be a memorable one for him<\/a>. That\u2019s three assists in the last four games for Jets prospect Brad Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>1st period analysis: Two goals against Connor Hellebuyck in first three shots. Dylan DeMelo played all of two shifts (on for both against).<\/p>\n<p>Message was received as the Jets started the middle frame on a much better foot\/skate.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually they would tie the game <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2035420769253986611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">courtesy of a shorthanded goal<\/a> with Cole Koepke getting his sixth on the season. He scored zero goals in his first 17 games and now had six goals in his last 36.<\/p>\n<p>First game back for Neal Pionk and he tied the game in the 3rd early in the 3rd. It appeared the Jets had gone bang-bang with Mark Scheifele putting them up 4-3 but it was called back after a Pens challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg would score the fourth goal of the game (again) as Brad Lambert got his second of the season and secured his first multi point game of his career firing a shot past Silovs to make it a 4-3 game.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Hellebuyck did get taken out but would stay in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Seemed somewhat inexplicable in a must-win game but Jets coach Scott Arniel went with Gustav Nyquist as the second shooter. While you understand that he\u2019s evidently the second best guy on the team from a % perspective, that\u2019s historical and he didn\u2019t have a particularly strong game that would merit a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins would go on to win the shootout and thus the game 5-4 over the Jets. Winnipeg drop to 0-1-1 on this three-game road trip in what was really a must-win game for Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Multi Point Game:<\/p>\n<p>Brad Lambert 1G 1A<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Players\/Coach availability:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Illegal Curve Post-Game Show:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Up next:<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are back in action tomorrow in New York City as they take on the Rangers. Start your day with the Morning Papers which will go live at 7 AM CST tomorrow on <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">illegalcurve.com<\/a> and then join us after the game on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=808xwXxd7ik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Illegal Curve Post-Game Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets showed some battle but not enough attention to detail as they let this one slip away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-552990","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\/552990","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=552990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}