ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Winnipeg Jets needed to be lucky or almost perfect to beat Devan Dubnyk Wednesday night.
Unfortunately for the visitors, they couldn't catch a break when they needed it most and Dubnyk, the 30-year-old Sultan of Stops, was nearly unbeatable as the Minnesota Wild posted a 3-1 triumph over the Jets before 19,002 fans at the Xcel Energy Center.
A coach's challenge, which resulted in a reversal of a goal scored by Winnipeg's Blake Wheeler at 9:54 of the third period was a backbreaker. Wheeler's perfect deflection of a Toby Enstrom shot was disallowed when Nikolaj Ehlers was judged to have been offside as Wheeler was carrying the puck over the blue line.