Penalty-killing unit top priority for Jets coach
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Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice says you don’t have to look very far to find the man to blame for the seemingly never ending struggles this season of his club’s woeful penalty killing unit.
“I’m fully in charge of all things broken,” Maurice told reporters Wednesday afternoon following his team’s practice at MTS Centre.
“I’m in charge of everything.”
The Jets penalty killing unit is ranked 27th in a 30-team league as of today — a cellar-dwelling position it’s been in for most of this season.
And it continues to kill Maurice’s team. The Jets have given up a power-play goal to their opponents in seven of their last nine games, including Tuesday night in a 5-3 loss to the Dallas Stars at MTS Centre.
The Jets technically gave up just one power play goal to the Stars, but Dallas also got a second goal Tuesday night at the exact second another Stars power-play expired.
Put it altogether and the struggles of the Winnipeg penalty killing unit was once again the margin of difference in a Jets loss.
So what’s the problem, Maurice was asked? “There’s a list,” said Maurice. “It’s a function of faceoffs, but the biggest one is finding a balance between being aggressive when we can be and then being far more patient and not opening up seams.”
Maurice had a two word answer when he was asked where the penalty killing unit is on his list of priorities right now.
“It’s one,” said Maurice.
The Jets skated on Wednesday without forward Andrew Ladd or defenceman Toby Enstrom. Maurice said both men were on a maintenance day and were expected to be back on the ice on Thursday.
The Jets next play on Friday night against the Carolina Hurricanes at MTS Centre.
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