Jets trying to regroup for Game 3 in Winnipeg after losses in Anaheim
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This article was published 19/04/2015 (3798 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Winnipeg Jets are trying to move on the morning after another stinging loss.
But it’s not easy.
The Jets dropped a second straight game to the Anaheim Ducks Saturday night, falling behind 2-0 in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series when Jakob Silfverberg scored with 19.8 seconds left in regulation time for a 2-1 victory.
Anaheim came from behind in the third period of both of the first two games to win — the first time in NHL history taking that route to a 2-0 series lead, says Elias Sports Bureau.
Game 3 is in Winnipeg on Monday night.
“It’s the most important time of year,” Jets defenceman Mark Stuart said this morning before the team’s departure here. “Playoffs is when you want to make things happen. It’s two games. We’re looking that we’re going to have to play seven so we’re going home to turn the series around.”
Asked how he was feeling today, the morning after another tough defeat, Stuart said:
“Don’t worry about how I feel. I’ll be okay. I’m a big boy.”
There was lots of post-game chatter on Saturday about things that did and didn’t go the Jets’ way. One of those subjects was the officiating of referees Jean Hebert and Marc Joannette.
One item that seemed to grate was that just before the Silfverberg goal that decided the game in the final minute, the Ducks had too many men on the ice.
“Yeah, there’s too many men on the ice but I could give you a list of things,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said this morning. “(Mathieu) Perreault gets cross-checked into the goalpost and we lose him for five or six minutes.
“There’s 40 penalties to be called. They’ll pick the ones they see or… it wasn’t unfair in terms of we got 10 and they got three. But there’s some stuff in the third period you’d expect a call on but we didn’t get but that’s not the telling tell of the game because of the way it played out.
“They all are (supposed to be called). Those things happen quick. Don’t be taking the refs off the hook today. There’s nothing you can do about that. They call the game as best they can. I haven’t felt in the last two games they necessarily got it right or wrong but it was at least even and we’ll just take that. We’ll take even in numbers whether you deserved to be on the power play more or not.”
Maurice was looking ahead to Game 3, but he didn’t want to do that too quickly, his experience tells him.
“Just through experience, don’t cut it (frustration and anger) off too early,” he said. “I’m not in a particularly good mood meeting with you here this morning and I’m going to let that hang around a little while.
“They’re tight games. It’s just a matter of inches and that’s the frustrating part.
“We’re going to go home. There’s a long history of being down 2-0 and feeling pretty down about yourself and coming back and winning the series. These have been tight, tight games and we just need to find a little more of that confidence that will keep us moving quick through 60 minutes.
“And then you talk about the things you need to do better and you get your energy back up and then you get back home and get excited about the game.”
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
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