DENVER – Make no mistake: The panic button has been pushed.
Despite captain Blake Wheeler’s attempt to pass it off as something that happens a “handful of times every year,” Tuesday night’s 23-minute, closed-door, players-only meeting following his team's latest inexplicable effort was anything but routine.
It would be unusual at any time in the season, let alone after Game No. 80 and with the start of the playoffs a week away. And it shows the Winnipeg Jets appear to recognize they are in danger of flushing a season with so much promise right down the drain.