The Winnipeg Jets could have been dashing around the ice Monday morning at Bell MTS Place, preparing for the most crucial game of the team's 2018-19 NHL season.
They were at the rink all right — packing up their gear, holding one-on-one meetings with their general manager and their coach, and participating in final chats with the media before departing for the off-season.
It's an off-season those within the organization agree will be painfully long and filled with uncertainty after the St. Louis Blues dumped the Jets 4-2 in their best-of-seven, first-round playoffs series. A Game 7 in the series was set for Monday in Winnipeg but became a moot point after the host Blues' 3-2 triumph in Game 6 on Saturday.