DALLAS — You can dissect a defeat like this one a million ways, but in the end, the biggest culprit in a 6-3 Winnipeg loss to the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center Thursday night was the failure of the Jets’ specialty units.
On a night the Jets gave up two power-play goals — including the game-winner — they also went 0-for-4 on their own power play. Case closed. Any questions?
The maddening part for Jets fans was it was all so predictable.
The Stars were scoring on 28.6 per cent of their power plays heading into Thursday’s game — second best in the NHL — so it didn’t take a genius to know the most effective way to shut down the Dallas power play was to simply not give them any.