If Jets aren't close by U.S. Thanksgiving, expect a turkey

JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESSWASHINGTON. D.C. — The captain wishes to advise everything is going to be fine.

"We’ve played pretty well recently and I think we’re happy with where our game is going," Jets winger Blake Wheeler said at the MTS Centre Tuesday night, minutes after his club lost a 3-2 heartbreaker to the Washington Capitals that dropped the Jets season record to 4-6 — the club’s second-worst start to a season since they returned to Winnipeg.

If those two things seem incongruent — everything is fine, but the Jets are off to their second-worst start in 2.0 history — well, maybe that’s because they are incongruent.

But let’s give Wheeler the benefit the doubt here. Yeah, the Jets are…