The Winnipeg Jets were only able to make it to the halfway mark of the goal they set out to achieve when their post-season run ended in Game 6 at Dallas.
And that means there is still much work to be done to take those very difficult next steps.
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The team that was the NHL‘s best in the regular season when it came to keeping the puck out of the net, executing on the power play, goals for and against differential, and winning on the road.
There are quite a few more items to add to that list. But in the playoffs, the Jets were well down the pecking order in all of those categories.
And when the clock struck 12 on Saturday night at American Airlines Center, in the most unfair and heartbreaking of ways — with the incredibly courageous Mark Scheifele in the penalty box — it was the final piece of evidence …