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Game Notes May 24 - Game 4 vs. Edmonton Series Schedule Date Loc Time/Res Series May 19 EDM 4-1 W Jets lead 1-0 May 21 EDM 1-0 W Jets lead 2-0 May 23 WPG 5-4 W Jets lead 3-0 May 24 WPG 8:45 p.m. Sportsnet/680 CJOB May 26 EDM TBD Sportsnet/680 CJOB May 28 WPG TBD Sportsnet/680 CJOB May 30 EDM TBD Sportsnet/680 CJOB Season Series Date Loc Sc/Time Res/Rec Jan. 24 WPG 4-3 L Jan. 26 WPG 6-4 W Feb. 15 EDM 6-5 W Feb. 17 EDM 3-2 L Mar. 18 EDM 2-1 L Mar. 20 EDM 4-2 L Apr. 17 WPG 3-0 L Apr. 26 WPG 6-1 L Apr. 28 WPG 3-1 L Playoffs By Game… Game 4: 2-5 Broadcast Game 4 at Home: 0-3 Overtime: 3-2 Information Home OT Games: 1-1 TV: SPORTSNET Road OT Games: 2-1 Play-By-Play: Harnarayan Singh Analyst: Louie DeBrusk Rinkside: Scott Oake Three Up The Jets won Game 3 5-4 in overtime on Sunday night to take a 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven Radio: 680 CJOB/Power 97 first round Stanley Cup Playoff series with the Edmonton Oilers…It’s the first time in franchise Play-By-Play: Paul Edmonds history the Jets have led a playoff series 3-0…Nikolaj Ehlers scored twice, including the overtime Analyst: Jamie Thomas winner, in his first game of these playoffs…Josh Morrissey (1G, 1A) and Pierre-Luc Dubois (2A) Studio Host: Kelly Moore each had two points as well…Blake Wheeler and Josh Morrissey completed the comeback with goals 16 seconds apart in the third period to set the franchise record for fastest two goals in the playoffs…The Jets are the 10th team in NHL history to come back from being down three goals in Upcoming the last 10 minutes of the third period in a playoff game. Media Schedule Date Event Time Helle Good May 24 Jets vs. Edmonton Oilers 8:45 p.m. Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck improved to 3-0 during the playoffs by making 44 saves in Game May 25 Practice 12:00 p.m. 3…He’s stopped 114 of 119 shots in the series for a .958 save percentage…He’s started 30 con- May 26 Morning Skate TBD secutive playoff games for the Jets…During his career, Hellebuyck has a .937 save percentage in Jets at Edmonton Oilers TBD 18 playoff games when he’s faced 30 shots or more. Comeback Sunday’s win marked the second time in franchise history the Jets erased a three-goal deficit in the playoffs…The Jets trailed 3-0 to the Nashville Predators in Game 3 of their 2018 second round series…The Jets trailed after each period in Sunday’s win…The Jets were third in the NHL during the regular season when trailing after the first period at 8-14-0 and ninth when trailing after the second at 4-17-0. One-Goal Games The Jets have won the past two games by one goal, while their 4-1 win in Game 1 was buoyed by two empty-net goals…The Jets went 12-6-3 in one-goal games during the regular season. Multi-Point Party Three members of the Jets had two-point games on Sunday…Seven different players have regis- tered a multi-point game for the Jets during the playoffs. The Hits on Repeat All 56 The Jets have registered 167 hits in the series (68 in Game 1, 52 Eight members of the Jets played all 56 games during the regular in Game 2, and 47 in Game 3)…The 68 hits in Game 1 is a franchise season…Josh Morrissey and Derek Forbort were the only defence- record in the regular season and playoffs…Winnipeg’s averaging 55 men to reach that mark, while forwards Mason Appleton, Kyle hits per game in the playoffs, which leads the NHL…The most hits Connor, Trevor Lewis, Mathieu Perreault, Mark Scheifele, and Paul the Jets had in a game in the regular season was 43. Stastny also accomplished the feat…The eight players playing 56 games led the NHL. Playoff Debuts Defenceman Logan Stanley and forwards Kristian Vesalainen made 1,000 their Stanley Cup Playoff debuts on Wednesday night in Game 1… Paul Stastny played in his 1,000th NHL game on May 11 against the Twenty-four players on the Jets playoff roster have played in at Vancouver Canucks…He was the sixth player from the 2005 NHL least one playoff game. Draft class to play in 1,000 NHL games…He’s played 538 games with the Colorado Avalanche, 267 with the St. Louis Blues, 121 with Clinched the Vegas Golden Knights, and 75 with the Jets…His dad Peter The Jets are competing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the fourth played in 977 NHL games from 1980-1995…He became the 354th consecutive season and sixth time in franchise history…The Jets player in NHL history to reach 1,000 games, joining the likes of finished third in the Scotia North Division and face the Edmonton Jets coaches Dave Lowry (1,081) and Charlie Huddy (1,017)…Stast- Oilers in the first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. ny is the 34th active player to reach the 1,000-game mark and ninth this season. Team Effort The Jets finished sixth in the NHL with a .911 save percentage 10 and 20 during the regular season…It’s the fourth consecutive season the The Jets had eight players with double digit goals, which was tied Jets have been in the top 10 in the NHL in team save percentage. for third in the NHL and one less than leaders Washington and Colorado…Winnipeg was one of five teams in the NHL with three Forwards Take the Lead 20-goal scorers this season. Winnipeg’s forwards had the biggest impact on their team’s offen- sive production of any team in the NHL…The forwards contributed Multi-Point Leader 94.1% of the team’s goals, 75.9% of the assists, and 82.5% of Mark Scheifele led the Jets during the regular season with 16 points…All three categories led the NHL…Winnipeg’s forwards also multi-point games, which was tied for 13th in the NHL…Scheifele scored all 30 of the team’s game-winning goals. tallied 38 (13G, 25A) of his 63 points during multi-point games… Kyle Connor (15), Nikolaj Ehlers (13), Andrew Copp (11), and Blake OT Winners Wheeler (11) also had double digit multi-point games…Scheifele The Jets went 6-1 in games decided in overtime this season, which and Wheeler each had a team-leading six three-point games. was tied for second in the NHL with a .857 winning percentage… Five of the six overtime wins were by a 4-3 score…Winnipeg won Lots of Action four overtime games all of the 2019-20 season…The franchise re- Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck played 45 games during the regular cord for overtime wins in a season is 10, which occurred in Atlanta season, which was the most in the NHL…Since the 2017-18 season, during the 2010-11 season…The most overtime wins in a season Hellebuyck leads NHL goaltenders in games played with 233, 20 since relocation is seven, which occurred during the 2018-19 more than Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy…With 1,223 saves this season. season, he was the only goaltender in the NHL to surpass 1,200 saves, while his 2,603 minutes also led the league…Hellebuyck fin- Special Teams ished fifth in the NHL with 24 wins, marking the fifth consecutive The Jets special teams both finished the top half of the league… season he’s racked up at least 20 wins. The Jets had one of the best power plays in the NHL all season and finished seventh at 23.0%...The team’s penalty kill came in at 300 Victories 80.5%, which was good for 13th…It’s the first time in three seasons Head coach Paul Maurice won his 300th game as the Jets head the Jets penalty kill finished the season at better than 80%. coach on May 5 at Calgary…The 300 wins comprise nearly 40% of his coaching wins in the NHL…He won 384 games coaching the Handful of Zeros Hartford/Carolina franchise and 76 games with the Maple Leafs… The Jets registered five shutouts during the regular season… Maurice is fourth all-time among head coaches in the NHL with Four of the five shutouts came on the road…It’s one shy of the six 1,656 games and sixth in wins with 762…Maurice joins Scotty shutouts the Jets had during the 2019-20 season…The franchise Bowman and Joel Quenneville as the only coaches in NHL history record for shutouts in a season in seven, which happened during to coach two different franchises to 300 regular season wins. the 2017-18 campaign. Blocker Undefeated with Four Derek Forbort finished fifth in the NHL with 115 blocked shots Winnipeg went a perfect 24-0-0 when scoring four goals in a game during the regular season…He averaged a career high 2.05 blocked during the regular season…Winnipeg was the only team in the NHL shots per game this season…Forbort had at least one blocked undefeated this season when scoring four goals or more on 16 or shot in his final 10 games.