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Opinion
It’s not just that the Winnipeg Jets won Friday night, although that’s plenty special all by itself in a town where it had been 31 years since the last time the local NHL team had won a playoff series.
It was more how they won, though, that spoke the loudest volumes about the truly remarkable thing this Jets team has become since the last time they made the playoffs.
Missing three of their top-six defencemen and two top-nine forwards to injury or suspension Friday night — including a 29-goal scorer in Nikolaj Ehlers, who was a game-time scratch — the Jets laid waste at Bell MTS Place to a desperate Minnesota Wild team that was fighting for their playoff lives in Game 5 of the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.