There are no excuses.
Sure, the season-ending injury to Bryan Little didn’t help. And the trade rumours that swirled around Andrew Ladd all this month created a distraction, no matter how much everyone in the Winnipeg Jets dressing room insisted it hadn’t.
But at the end of the day, February was a month of put up or shut up for the Jets and they will now head into March quiet as a church mouse, with 21 games still to play but not a whole lot to actually play for.
Whatever slim hopes the Jets had of making a playoff push basically evaporated with a 4-7-1 record in February that has them tied for 12th in the Western Conference and a full 12 points out of the final wild-card spot heading into today’s NHL trading deadline.