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Winnipeg Jets' Tucker Poolman, watches Columbus Blue Jackets' Artemi Panarin and Jets' Mark Scheifele during third period NHL hockey action in Winnipeg, Tuesday. Winnipeg seemed to lack quickness in all areas of play in their loss to the Metropolitan division squad.
The Winnipeg Jets say the try was there but the execution wasn’t in Tuesday’s ugly defeat to the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.
Conspicuously absent from the Jets’ (3-3-0) performance was quickness — not defined simply by their acceleration through the neutral zone but more by winning races to loose pucks, hasty attacks on Columbus puck carriers and short, swift routes to open spaces.