He was beaten 10 seconds into the game, with the final notes of O Canada just fading from the MTS Centre rafters. But by night’s end, Michael Hutchinson had backstopped his Winnipeg Jets to a mistake-filled ‘W’ that won’t include many — if any — clips on his personal highlight reel.
All that said, the Jets netminder is now 3-0 with a goals-against average of 2.00 and a save percentage of .935 after Sunday’s 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Wild.
A Picasso, it was not. But as hockey types will insist, a win is a win is a win — even if it means giving up a 5-1 lead, and even if it means getting scored on 10 seconds into the game, when Justin Fontaine waltzed around Jacob Trouba and beat Hutchinson.