LOS ANGELES — They didn't go to boot camp or reform school. But the Winnipeg Jets have certainly cleaned up their act of late, spending far less time in the penalty box while making other teams pay dearly for their on-ice sins.
Consider this: in the first month of the 2018-19 NHL regular-season, no team took more penalty minutes than the Jets. They were the NHL's resident bad boys, with 50 minors, four majors, five 10-minute misconducts and one game-misconduct in their first 13 games, which took them through the end of the Global Series trip to Finland.