CHICAGO — Mathieu Perreault leaned back in his stall in the Winnipeg Jets locker-room Thursday and spoke about his scoring touch as if it were pure chance, a phenomenon that comes and goes with no warning.
"Sometimes you take a shot and it goes post and in, the other time it hits the post and doesn’t go in," he said after the morning skate. "That’s just how this game goes."
Hours later, the Jets beat the Columbus Blue Jackets, 6-4, and it became evident within moments of the opening faceoff Perreault’s offensive gifts had made it to the MTS Centre.