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Even though winning and losing is not the end all in NHL pre-season games, how you play is. Thomas Vermaelen Belgium Jersey . The Winnipeg Jets finished an eight-game exhibition schedule with a 5-0 loss to Tuukka Rask and the Boston Bruins in a game played in Saskatoon on Friday. The Jets finish with a 1-4-3 record and from players to coaches, all know there is work to be done in preparation for Tuesdays season opener in Edmonton (TSN 1290). There are also some roster decisions to be made as the Jets currently have 26 players remaining – 15 forwards, nine defencemen, and two goaltenders. The Jets did get a scare late in the game as Dustin Byfuglien went down awkwardly in his own zone, stayed down for a bit and then skated off very much favouring his left leg. Post game, head coach Claude Noel said Byfuglien was fine. The Jets also played without defenceman Zach Bogosian after he left last weeks game in Edmonton. Bogosian is expected to be ready for the opener. Back to the 1-4-3 record. Individuals have great pre-seasons and bad starts to the year, so do teams, and vice versa. Great pre-seasons do not mean great starts, so dont read too much into the record. However, back to the "there is work to be done" that we heard after the loss. Defending is still the biggest concern for Noel. In the 5-0 loss there were missed assignments, incorrect reads and any other terms coaches use. The Jets HAVE to cut down the goals against and maybe giving up five in the final game will make it easier for the coaches to hammer that point home. They gave up 144 last year. Only three teams in the East and two in the West gave up more. It starts with cutting down the oppositions quality chances. It is not just a case of saying the goaltending has to be better. You defend as a team, and being a solid defensive team is hard work. Its making a commitment to the system game in, game out. In some of the pre-season games we saw it. Now its just a matter of doing it consistently, which is easier said than done. The power play had its moments in the eight games but will need to be better than it was last season. Power play numbers in pre-season are what they are. It is not practiced much, from game to game never the same five-man unit, and its pretty much ad lib. The biggest positive from the pre-season was the penalty kill. Last year the Jets became a more aggressive team on the PK and in the last 31 games did not give up a power play goal against in 23 of them. In the eight pre-season games they killed 36 of 38. Key now is to continue with that confidence going into the regular season. And like defending, PK is following the system and hard work. Individually Jacob Trouba, Josh Morrissey and Adam Lowry are just three of the youngsters that stood out. All three are in different situations now, Morrissey back in junior and captain of the Prince Albert Raiders, Lowry in St. Johns (only one pre-season game because of injury), while Trouba appears to have done enough to be on the opening day roster. In goal Ondrej Pavelec will carry the load but after "wanting to play all the games" in previous years says he will no longer answer questions about how busy he wants to be. He will leave that up to the coach to decide and do what is best for the team to accomplish its goal of being in the post season. "That is my goal, do whatever I can to get us into the playoffs," said Pavelec. Al Montoya will see more action than he did in last years shortened season where he only got into seven games, starting only four. What will the D pairings be? We have seen Byfuglien and Grant Clitsome together and if that is the case can Clitsome play the big minutes Byfugien does? He showed last year he could as he was over 20 minutes in each of the last eight games and over 24 minutes seven times in the back half of the season. Injuries split Byfuglien and Toby Enstrom last season. Enstrom went 2-11-13 in the first 10 games and was key in the Jets scoring nine power play goals in the first nine games. Early in game 13 Enstrom was injured and missed the next 19. Bogosian will round out the top four with Mark Stuart and Trouba at five/six. Those two were paired together in the back to back games against Boston. Trouba was tested with big minutes in the pre-season and the coaches loved the response. That leaves Paul Postma, Adam Pardy and Zach Redmond for one final spot if the decision is to go with 14 forwards and seven D. Redmond had the horrific injury last year and needs to play, plus is on a two-way contract so will probably end up with the IceCaps. Up front Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler will again be asked to carry the offensive load. Ladd had a great season leading the team in scoring (18-28-46), Wheeler lead the team in goals (19 – prorated over 82 games and you get 32 which would have been a career high). With the additions of Devin Setoguchi and Michael Frolik the Jets hope the added offensive pop will take some of the load off the big line. In too many games last year if the big line didnt score, the Jets didnt win. But no second unit has been set. Evander Kane, who has led this team in total goals since the move to Winnipeg (47), leads the NHL in pre-season shots on goal while logging big minutes. Hitting the net with more regularity is still something the coaches would like to see from the 22-year-old. In the middle will it be Olli Jokinen or Mark Scheifele? The game-to-game rotation tells you neither has jumped up and grabbed the spot. Which of the newcomers will be on the right side? That still needs to be determined. In the last two games James Wright saw time in the top nine, with Jim Slater, Eric Tangradi, and Chris Thorburn starting the last two games together. Slater coming off a season shortened by injury, after scoring a career high 13 goals in the 2011-12 campaign. If that is the starting 12, that leaves Anthony Peluso, Patrice Cormier and Matt Halischuk for the final two forward spots, again if the plan is to go with 14. Halischuk has experience, is quick and has played for Nashville and New Jersey, two very good defensive teams, thus will stay. Cormier has been knocking on the door the past few seasons and can play centre or left wing, while Peluso has only five NHL games under his belt after suffering a hand injury last year. Will the Jets being in the tougher Western Conference benefit him when it comes to the final decision? Which brings us to the move to the West. How will the Jets adapt? The West is more physical, tighter checking, features teams with big centremen (Joe Thornton 64, 220, Ryan Getzlaf 64, 220, Anze Kopitar 63, 225, Mikko Koivu 63, 217), the champion Blackhawks, St. Louis always one of the toughest teams to play against, etc. The NHLs three best home teams last season came from the West. San Jose lost twice in regulation, Chicago three and Los Angeles four. The Jets at 13-10-1 HAVE to be better at MTS Centre. Especially with eight of nine at home after the opener in Edmonton. The move to the West makes for a better schedule. Much easier to fly to Chicago for a single, than to Carolina or Florida as was the case when they played in the Southeast Division. Total miles does not really tell the story. Jets will travel over 46,000 miles this season, compared to 44,600 in the 2011-12 season. Difference is in the Southeast the Jets would go on six- and seven-game road trips where now the home/road will balance out a lot better. If you check the month-to-month schedule you will notice the balance. This franchise was last in the playoffs in the spring of 2007. Is this the year? Great question, discuss among yourselves. With four divisions the top three from each get in, with wild cards spots up for grabs. Jets will play 10 back-to-backs (a good number), 10 afternoon games and one morning game (Friday Nov. 29 in Philadelphia). TSN Jets will feature 63 Jets games, including the home opener against Los Angeles on October 4 and barring a Stanley Cup meeting, Teemu Selannes final game in Winnipeg two days later, as he will retire at the end of the season to take up golf. Okay, maybe not after watching his "Im returning for one more year video." Jets will be featured on five TSN national telecasts and of course all games can be heard on TSN 1290. The team will spend the weekend in Banff, Alberta doing some team building before heading into Edmonton Monday. Sunday and Monday will include on-ice sessions to work on all aspects of the game. Yes, the pre-season slate is wiped clean and everyone starts even. But this team knows 27 goals against in the pre-season is too many. The 1-4-3 record will soon be forgotten, especially with a good start to the season. Players have talked about starting games better, more urgency to their games at the start of the season because a win in October is as important as a win in April. And to that end, remember last year when a losing streak put them in a position where they could not afford a loss down the stretch. They also want to and need to night in and night out be a tougher team to play against. They are a better team than last season, because players like Kane and Bogosian have another year of experience, and with players they added during the off-season. And starting Tuesday all the questions surrounding this team will start to be answered. The two biggest being "how will they handle the move to the West?", and "can they defend better and cut down the goals against?". Axel Witsel Belgium Jersey . - On the night Dirk Nowitzki overtook Dominique Wilkins on the career scoring list, Brandan Wright was a human highlight film all by himself. Dries Mertens Belgium Jersey . The Stampeders announced the move on Wednesday. Bell spent his first two CFL seasons with the B. http://www.belgiumsoccerauthority.com/leander-dendoncker-belgium-jersey/ . - Hitting was supposed to be the Pittsburgh Pirates weakness coming into the season yet they lead the major leagues in home runs through the first 16 games of the season.Colorado Avalanche 4 Winnipeg Jets 3 (Shootout) – With the loss the Jets have gone five straight home games without a win. They did however pick up a point in three of those five games. Jets record is now 14-14-5, their home record 7-7-4. The Jets got off to the start they wanted with Blake Wheeler scoring his eighth of the season 24 seconds into the game, with assists to Toby Enstrom and Bryan Little. Enstrom snapped an eight game pointless drought, while Little now has 21 points in his last 21 games and has points in 22 of the teams 33 games this season. After failing to score on a two man advantage, the Jets did get a power play goal from Michael Frolik to take a 2-0 lead 5:25 into the game. It was the first time in four tries this season that they did not score while up two men. For Frolik it was his eighth of the year and first power play goal of the season. He deflected a Jacob Trouba shot, giving him his first power play point and his first home point. Matt Duchene snapped a seven game goalless drought at 15:08, scoring his 13th to make it 2-1 after the first, despite the Jets outshooting the Avs 14-4. In the last three first periods the Jets have outshot the opposition 37-11. In 29 games Colorado had only given up 17 first period goals. The second period was a reversal with the Avalanche outshooting the Jets 14-4 and getting goals from Ryan OReilly and Duchene to take a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes. Duchenes second of the night came with 2.6 seconds left in the period, on a play that he started in his own end by picking off a Jets pass and breaking out with Nathan MacKinnon. The Jets regrouped in the third period outshooting the Avs 13-5 and getting a power play goal from Wheeler to tie the game. Wheeler now has nine goals on the year and has scored four in the last five games after going 14 games without a goal. It was Wheelers 13th career two goal game. Grant Clitsome picked up his second assist of the night on the goal; Mark&nbbsp;Scheifele had the other assist. Romelu Lukaku Jersey. It was the second time this season the Jets have scored two power play goals in the same game. Jets went to their sixth power play of the night at 14:10 of the third but could not find the go ahead goal. In the overtime period, the Jets had five shots to Colorados three. Both Semyon Varlamov and Ondrej Pavelec made some big saves in this game as at times both sides opened it up and traded chances. The game went to a short shootout. Devin Setoguchi failed to score, Duchene did, Andrew Ladd did not score, while PA Parenteau did and the game was over. It was the Jets 11th overtime game of the year (1-1 in overtime and 5-4 in shootouts.) The Jets close out the three game home stand Saturday afternoon against Dallas (TSN 1290). Wheeler led the way with six shots on goal; Little won nine of 13 face-offs, Dustin Byfuglien played 29:20. Trouba played 25:52 the second highest total of the season. Jets how have 14 power play goals, 11 of them scored at home. This from Blake Wheeler post game - "they took advantage of our mistakes. Weve been taking positives out of losses too long. We didnt do enough to win the game." Coach Claude Noel agreed. "Tough point to lose. We played really good in the first; we got the building involved with the two first goals, and then didnt do the same things in the second. We missed the net, didnt shoot very much. Again, its game management. Turnovers in our own zone. Then get out of the second period 2-2, regroup and away you go." The goal with 2.6 seconds made it 3-2 for Colorado a team that is now 18-0 when leading after two. "We came back in the third, our power play was good again," continued Coach Noel. "Then we get to the shootout and weve been on the good side and the bad side. Winning in the NHL is not an easy process. Were a .500 team and thats not good enough. In the conference we are in, its not even close." Wholesale Jerseys 2019 China Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Wholesale Authentic Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys 2018 Cheap NFL Womens Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '