Seven times this season, the Winnipeg Jets have won two games in a row.
And seven times, as of Monday night at MTS Centre, the Jets have lost the third game.
A see-saw 2015-16 season that has seen the Jets unable to find any sustained traction continued Monday night with a 2-1 Winnipeg loss to the Colorado Avalanche in which the Jets penalty killing unit was once again the difference in a Winnipeg loss.
A pair of Colorado goals in the second period — the first on a delayed holding penalty to Toby Enstrom and the second with Blake Wheeler in the penalty box for interference — proved to be the margin on a night the Jets were sorely missing the scoring touch of injured forwards Drew Stafford and Mark Scheifele, not to mention Adam Lowry.