Paul Maurice has been fretting over his team’s penchant for penalties and it’s not hard to understand why.
The Winnipeg Jets were the 12th-most penalized team in the NHL (10:27 minutes per game) heading into tonight’s action and had been whistled for the third-most minor penalties (95 in 24 games). Most recently, careless stick infractions have been on the rise.
"We’ve taken more stick penalties than we can take," the Jets’ head coach said after practice Monday morning.
"And you get on runs, like Mark Stuart gets a four-minute (high-sticking minor) in the third (Sunday afternoon vs.