What a solution to spend a Friday night time…..sitting on the sofa with a plateful of salt & pepper wings and my favorite beverage whereas watching the Winnipeg Jets & Dallas Stars sq. off on the Canada Life Centre. As I munched on my supper, that is how I noticed the sport play out…..
GAME RECAP
The Jets began off the sport properly, with the underside six offering Winnipeg with two early scoring probabilities when Brandon Tanev was denied on a breakaway after which Nino Niederreiter hit the publish on a large open internet. The house workforce continued to press a bit later after the highest line was caught defending for the early a part of their shift…however good stress close to the Jets’ blueline allowed the True Northers to interrupt out the opposite method. Kyle Connor carried the puck by means of the impartial zone earlier than handing the puck off to Mark Scheifele alongside the boards within the offensive zone. The first line heart purchased a little bit of time earlier than hitting Dylan Samberg with a move on the blueline, permitting the defender to step in solely barely earlier than he rocketed a shot by Dallas’ Jake Oettinger to present Winnipeg an early lead. WPG 1-0. Because the interval reached the halfway level, the guests had their finest shift when the Stars’ prime unit virtually capitalized on a scramble in entrance of Connor Hellebuyck. After one other sturdy shift by Dallas, the Jets had one other wonderful likelihood when Scheifele deked out the goaltender however failed to slide the puck into the web because it banged towards the publish and away from hazard. With 3 minutes left, Winnipeg dumped the puck into Dallas’ zone with Scheifele in pursuit. After a short battle alongside the boards within the left nook, the highest pivot managed to shortly pull the puck out and ship it to Connor within the low left face-off circle. With a lightning launch, the American sniper had put the biscuit by the Stars’ goalie earlier than he had an opportunity to maneuver. WPG 2-0. Whereas Dallas led on the shot counter after the first (9-6), Winnipeg was taking part in bodily (Jets 14-6 within the hit division) and had the higher of the anticipated targets battle (0.77 to 0.33).
The Texans began the center interval off properly, pressuring the Manitobans on back-to-back shifts and testing Hellebuyck on a number of events. Winnipeg’s 2nd line was in a position to tilt the ice the opposite method, with Cole Perfetti taking part in an enormous function in an extended cycle shift within the opponent’s finish. The Jets’ prime ahead line created an excellent likelihood after they rushed up the ice to achieve the zone, earlier than Scheifele fed the puck to Connor and allowed him to carry out an image excellent give & go along with Josh Morrissey. A notable plateau for KFC, as he ties Scheifele for the workforce lead with 35 targets on the season. WPG 3-0. The True Northers maintained the pace & ferocity that they had within the opening body and it allowed them to clog up the impartial zone and create turnovers with good again stress. In the long run, Dallas as soon as once more had extra photographs than Winnipeg (8-4) within the interval and with the assistance of a late powerplay, the Stars had been in a position to take a slight lead within the anticipated targets battle (1.11-1.09 DAL). With the Jets’ virtually excellent file when main after two intervals (35-0-1) and Dallas’ struggles on the powerplay towards our workforce (0 for 10 this yr), the visiting franchise had an enormous process forward of them.
The third interval opened up with some cautious play from each squads within the first 5 minutes, however then the Stars had been in a position to string collectively a pair offensive zone shifts in a row. Winnipeg did job of conserving the probabilities to the perimeter and a pleasant rise up by Samberg on the Jets’ blueline stopped a Dallas counter assault in it’s tracks. With simply their third shot of the interval (thirteenth of recreation), the house workforce added to their lead when the 4th line had a pair our bodies within the capturing lane for Dylan DeMelo to unleash some extent shot, just for Morgan Barron to deflect it in (sixth of yr). WPG 4-0. The Dallas Stars had been in a position to destroy Hellebuyck’s shutout try late within the recreation when a Winnipeg miscue on protection of their finish allowed Mason Marchment to be left alone in entrance of the Jets’ internet. A misplaced puck battle behind the aim line noticed the puck slip by DeMelo to the uncovered Star and Bucky couldn’t react in time to disclaim the prospect. WPG 4-1. Though there was nonetheless over 3 minutes left, Winnipeg did a advantageous job of denying additional offensive seems to be and took a ten level lead over the Stars within the standings when the ultimate horn blew.
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FINAL SCORE: WINNIPEG JETS 4 DALLAS STARS 1
FINAL STATS
Photographs: 25-22 DAL / Hits: 35-17 WPG / Face-Offs: 51.8% DAL / x Targets: 2.19 WPG – 1.69 DAL /
MoneyPuck’s Need to Win: 59.2% WPG / Excessive-Medium Hazard Scoring Possibilities: 9 to six DAL
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SCORING SUMMARY from ESPN
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SHOT CHART from MoneyPuck
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ADVANCED SKATER STATS from MoneyPuck
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GOALIE STATS from ESPN & MoneyPuck
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If you want to dive deeper into the sport’s stats, comply with the hyperlinks under to the sport pages:
MoneyPuck: Dallas Stars vs. Winnipeg Jets – Friday March 14 2025 – MoneyPuck.com
NaturalStatTrick: Dallas Stars @ Winnipeg Jets, 2025-03-14
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BOJA’s Observations:
- Connor Hellebuyck got here very near a career-high seventh shutout of the marketing campaign, however a defensive miscue value him that non-public distinction. The tender nonetheless performed very properly, turning apart 24 of 25 photographs for a .960 save proportion and a +0.69 Targets Saved Above Anticipated.
- Brandon Tanev picked up his first level as a Winnipeg Jet in 2024-25 and his 18th level of the yr on fellow 4th liner Morgan Barron’s sixth aim of the season.
- The Jets’ prime ahead line of Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, & Gabriel Vilardi got here to play final night time. The trio mixed for 8 photographs on internet & 7 factors in simply over 17 minutes of ice-time. Winnipeg will want these guys to play like this within the playoffs in the event that they need to make a future.
- The general recreation final night time was up there with the Jets’ finest video games of the yr. They stifled the Stars’ offense all night time and restricted a workforce that averages about 2.4 anticipated targets per recreation to simply 1.69.
- Holy cow!! The Jets managed not solely to out-hit their opposition (one thing that not often happens), however they really doubled up the Stars within the bodycheck rely (35 to 17).
- With the win over the Dallas Stars, the Winnipeg Jets’ “magic quantity” to lock up the highest spot within the Central Division is now 12. Each time the Jets get a regulation win or the Stars endure a regulation loss, that quantity will lower by 1 (0.5 lower for any WPG or DAL extra time loss). As soon as the quantity will get to 0, then the True Northers have sealed up the division title.
A really pleasing solution to begin the weekend for us Jets’ followers….a dominating win over a hated rival and the franchise’s finest outing because the conclusion of the 4 Nations Face-Off. With Winnipeg off till Sunday night, my consideration will change to the Manitoba Moose, who will play a pair of video games towards the Iowa Wild this weekend. Will Fabian Wagner proceed his 4 recreation scoring streak (5 targets) and may the mini-Jets begin piling up wins to steal a wildcard spot with a late cost? Guess I’ll discover out.
Take pleasure in your weekend everybody.
UP NEXT: Winnipeg Jets @ Seattle Kraken – Sunday, March sixteenth @ 8:00 pm CST
