It’s chiseled in stone as one of the commandments in winning hockey games: thou shalt keep thy puck out of thy net.
And through the first 28 games of the 2015-16 National Hockey League season – especially during the month of November – the Winnipeg Jets weren’t exactly being true to the game’s good book. Defence became a glaring issue for the team during a 4-9-1 run last month that saw them surrender an average of 3.79 goals per game. The breakdowns became so common it left everyone surly and had the goaltenders suffering through abandonment issues.
But the red light has been flashing less and less behind the Jets netminders of late and, not coincidentally, their game has steadied.