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Learning how to win. Playing through adversity. Coming up clutch.
Pick any cliché you want. But look at the resumé of every successful hockey team and you'll likely find plenty of games during the course of a season that look an awful lot like what the Winnipeg Jets pulled off Thursday night against the Philadelphia Flyers.
They struggled out of the gate, quickly fell behind by a couple of goals and seemed destined for defeat. But they managed to stop the bleeding, claw their way back into the game, score a last-minute goal with their net empty and then salvage a victory in the shootout.