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Good morning, folks.
I hope you all found a way to enjoy the Victoria Day long weekend.
I know you Winnipeg Jets fans had some happy moments.
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I’m still hearing from friends about Sunday’s Game 3 — but not just about their excitement over how the local NHL team rallied from a 4-1 deficit to eventually win in overtime and take a 3-0 stranglehold in their playoff series with Edmonton. The messages are instead filled with incredulity over the fact that I left my perch in the Bell MTS Place pressbox and headed home after the Oilers had taken a three-goal lead in the game.
Say what?!
You did what, Steve?!
Yep, in what had been a pretty boring game, I made a decision to hit the road after Jujhar Khaira scored five minutes into the final frame to give the visitors what looked like a commanding lead.
“Beating the traffic?” grinned Mike McIntyre as I prepared to make my exit.
Old habits die hard, Mike.
In fact, it was mostly my tummy that urged me to take my leave. As many of you know, I have a sweet tooth, and the treat I like most to satisfy that craving is ice cream. Earlier Sunday, someone had given me a drumstick after grocery shopping and it was just waiting for me to get home.
Giving no thought to the possibility of a comeback, I didn’t even tune in to the game on my way home. Frankly, I’m not even sure how to get a radio station on my new SUV: does anyone listen to radio anymore?
After parking in my garage, I checked my phone and had a text from Mike that read: “Look what you’ve done! You leave and they come to life!”
Figuring the Jets had scored a goal or two, I checked my Sportsnet app to see they had actually scored three goals and tied the game.
As Yogi Berra said: “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
You all know what happened after that: Nicolaj Ehlers scored what might have gone down as the most memorable goal in Jets history. At least it was until the next night, when Kyle Connor scored in triple overtime to give the Jets a sweep of the series.
Nikolaj Ehlers celebrates his game-winning goal with teammate Logan Stanley Sunday. Ehlers made an immediate impact when he returned to the Jets lineup in Game 3. (Fred Greenslade / The Canadian Press files)
Let the record show that despite Game 4 ending hours after my bedtime — it basically started at my bedtime — I was still awake when Connor scored 6:52 into the sixth frame Tuesday morning. Didn’t need any “OMG, you went to sleep?!” messages.
Let the record also show that I was sitting comfortably on my couch enjoying that drumstick when Ehlers scored.
And don’t be too hard on me, now: let the record also show that I picked the Jets to beat the Oilers and a few of you sent me messages saying I was nuts. And not the good kind, like on a drumstick.
“You can observe a lot by just watching.” — Yogi Berra
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