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Game Notes June 7 - Game 4 at Montreal Series Schedule Series/Broad- Date Loc Time/Res casters June 2 WPG 5-3 L Canadiens lead 1-0 June 4 WPG 1-0 L Canadiens lead 2-0 June 6 MTL 5-1 L Canadiens lead 3-0 June 7 MTL 8:00 p.m. ET Sportsnet/680 CJOB June 9 WPG TBA Sportsnet/680 CJOB June 11 MTL TBA Sportsnet/680 CJOB June 13 WPG TBA Sportsnet/680 CJOB Season Series Date Loc Sc Res Feb. 25 WPG 6-3 W Feb. 27 WPG 2-1 OTW Mar. 4 MTL 4-3 OTW Mar. 6 MTL 7-1 L Mar. 15 WPG 4-2 L Mar. 17 WPG 4-3 OTW Apr. 8 MTL 4-2 W Apr. 10 MTL 5-0 W Apr. 30 MTL 5-3 L Playoffs By Game Game 4: 3-5 Broadcast Game 4 on the Road: 2-2 Overtime: 4-2 Information Home OT Games: 2-1 TV: SPORTSNET Road OT Games: 2-1 Play-By-Play: Chris Cuthbert Analyst: Craig Simpson Rinkside: Kyle Bukauskas Down three The Jets have dropped the first three of games of this series…It’s the first time the Jets find Radio: 680 CJOB/Power 97 themselves down 3-0 in a series since the First Round of the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs against Play-By-Play: Paul Edmonds the Anaheim Ducks. Analyst: Jamie Thomas Studio Host: Kelly Moore Facing Elimination The Jets face elimination on Monday for the first time in this season’s playoffs…The Jets fran- chise is 1-5 all-time in playoff games when facing elimination…The lone win was Game 7 of the Upcoming Second Round in 2018 against the Nashville Predators. Media Schedule Date Event Time Back-2-Back Jets at Montreal The Jets play their second back-to-back of the playoffs on Monday…Winnipeg swept the back-to- June 7 Canadiens 8:00 p.m. ET back against the Edmonton Oilers in the first round…The Jets were 4-3-1 in the first half and 5-3-0 June 8 Media Availability TBA in the second half of back-to-back sets during the regular season. June 9 Morning Skate 10:30 a.m. Jets vs. Montreal Canadiens 7:00 p.m. Back on the Road Winnipeg’s three-game road playoff winning streak, dating back to last season, ended on Sunday night…The Jets are 5-3 in their past eight road playoff games and have won at least one road game in five of their past six playoff series…Winnipeg won a franchise high three road games in 2018 during their Second Round series against the Nashville Predators…During the regular sea- son, Winnipeg was seventh in the NHL at 17-10-1. On the Draw As a team, the Jets are second during the playoffs with a 53.4% faceoff winning percentage… Winnipeg was 13th in the regular season in faceoffs at 50.5%...Adam Lowry is leading the Jets and is ninth in the NHL during the playoffs with a 55.8% winning percentage…Andrew Copp has won 25 of 43 (58.1%) of his faceoffs in the past two games. First Sweep The Jets swept the Edmonton Oilers in four games in the First Round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs…It’s the first time in franchise history the Jets have swept a playoff series…This is also the second time in franchise history the Jets have advanced past Playoff Experience the first round of the playoffs, joining the 2018 Stanley Cup Play- Paul Stastny leads all players on the Jets roster with 102 NHL play- offs when the Jets advanced to the Western Conference Final. off games during his career…Trevor Lewis is second with 86, while Nate Thompson is one game behind with 84. Overtime a Good Time The Jets won their last three games against the Oilers in over- Career Overtime Winners time…The Jets have won four consecutive playoff overtime games, Date Player Team Opponent Result Time dating back to the 2019 playoffs…It’s the longest active overtime Apr. 17, 2014 Paul Stastny COL MIN 5-4 W 7:27 winning streak in the NHL. Apr. 16, 2019 Kyle Connor WPG STL 2-1 W 6:02 Aug. 6, 2020 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ TOR 4-3 W 18:24 Comeback May 21, 2021 Paul Stastny WPG EDM 1-0 W 4:06 In Game 3 against the Oilers, the Jets erased a three-goal deficit, May 23, 2021 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG EDM 5-4 W 9:13 which marked the second time in franchise history Winnipeg did May 24, 2021 Kyle Connor WPG EDM 4-3 W 46:52 so in a playoff game…The Jets trailed 3-0 to the Nashville Preda- tors in Game 3 of their 2018 second round series…The Jets were All 56 third in the NHL during the regular season when trailing after the Eight members of the Jets played all 56 games during the regular first period at 8-14-0 and ninth when trailing after the second at season…Josh Morrissey and Derek Forbort were the only defence- 4-17-0. men to reach that mark, while forwards Mason Appleton, Kyle Connor, Trevor Lewis, Mathieu Perreault, Mark Scheifele, and Paul One-Goal Games Stastny also accomplished the feat…The eight players playing 56 The Jets have won three of their four playoff wins by one goal, games led the NHL. while their 4-1 win in Game 1 against Edmonton was buoyed by two 1,000 empty-net goals…The Jets went 12-6-3 in one-goal games during th the regular season. Paul Stastny played in his 1,000 NHL game on May 11 against the Vancouver Canucks…He was the sixth player from the 2005 NHL Playoff Debuts Draft class to play in 1,000 NHL games…He’s played 538 games Defenceman Logan Stanley and forwards Kristian Vesalainen made with the Colorado Avalanche, 267 with the St. Louis Blues, 121 with the Vegas Golden Knights, and 75 with the Jets…His dad Peter their Stanley Cup Playoff debuts in Game 1 against Edmonton… th Twenty-four players on the Jets playoff roster have played in at played in 977 NHL games from 1980-1995…He became the 354 least one playoff game. player in NHL history to reach 1,000 games, joining the likes of Jets coaches Dave Lowry (1,081) and Charlie Huddy (1,017)…Stast- ny is the 34th active player to reach the 1,000-game mark and Team Effort ninth this season. The Jets finished sixth in the NHL with a .911 save percentage during the regular season…It’s the fourth consecutive season the Jets have been in the top 10 in the NHL in team save percentage. 10 and 20 The Jets had eight players with double digit goals, which was tied for third in the NHL and one less than leaders Washington and Forwards Take the Lead Colorado…Winnipeg was one of five teams in the NHL with three Winnipeg’s forwards had the biggest impact on their team’s offen- 20-goal scorers this season. sive production of any team in the NHL during the regular season… The forwards contributed 94.1% of the team’s goals, 75.9% of the assists, and 82.5% of points…All three categories led the NHL… Multi-Point Leader Mark Scheifele led the Jets during the regular season with 16 Winnipeg’s forwards also scored all 30 of the team’s game-win- th ning goals. multi-point games, which was tied for 13 in the NHL…Scheifele 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 four overtime games all of the 2019-20 season…The franchise re- Lots of Action cord for overtime wins in a season is 10, which occurred in Atlanta Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck played 45 games during the regular during the 2010-11 season…The most overtime wins in a season season, which was the most in the NHL…Since the 2017-18 season, since relocation is seven, which occurred during the 2018-19 Hellebuyck leads NHL goaltenders in games played with 233, 20 season. more than Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy…With 1,223 saves this 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 th 300 Victories 80.5%, which was good for 13 …It’s the first time in three seasons th the Jets penalty kill finished the season at better than 80%. Head coach Paul Maurice won his 300 game as the Jets head 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 is seven, which happened during to coach two different franchises to 300 regular season wins.