Jets confident they have the skill to pull out of nosedive – Winnipeg

Mark Scheifele didn’t have a solution for why the Winnipeg Jets’ dropping streak now sits at 4 video games.

Scheifele scored Winnipeg’s solely purpose in a 4-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues Tuesday, rolling the Jets’ file to 1-5-0 of their previous six video games and dropping them out of first place within the NHL standings.

Throughout the four-game skid, the Jets (18-8-0) have solely scored six objectives. They went into the sport sitting third within the league with 94 objectives.

“I don’t know if I can pinpoint it proper now,” Scheifele stated when requested the place the workforce’s offence has gone.

“I believe it’s only a matter of sporting groups down. Clearly, everybody’s gunning for us they usually know they received to play us arduous. So, I believe it’s only a matter of getting again to wanting on the blueprint that we have been doing earlier and simply attempt to get again to that.”

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 28 of the 31 photographs he confronted for Winnipeg.

Jordan Kyrou scored twice and Dylan Holloway had a purpose and help for St. Louis. Robert Thomas recorded an empty-net purpose.

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Winnipegger Joel Hofer made 22 saves for St. Louis (12-12-2), which is on a four-game level streak (3-0-1).

The four-game run coincides with the hiring of Jim Montgomery as Blues head coach on Nov. 24.

Winnipeg head coach Scott Arniel stated two issues stand out to him throughout his workforce’s dropping streak.

“We have now alternatives to assault the web and we’ve regarded for yet one more play,” he stated. “And the opposite aspect of it’s that, once we get inside, once we get our bodies and numbers inside, that creates these second and third alternatives.

“Generally it’s the opposition making an attempt to maintain you out of there, however typically it’s your will to go inside there and go get these second probabilities. For me, the assault mindset is one thing that we’ve had for many of the yr however now we’re deferring.”

Winnipeg entered the match tied in factors for first place within the league, a spot they’d been in since Oct. 22 however now not.

“We don’t look the place we’re sitting,” Arniel stated. “We have a look at, like we talked about once we beat groups, it’s the subsequent opponent and shifting on.”

He and his assistants will stress what’s wanted to have success.

“We have to be higher as a bunch. That’s the largest factor,” Arniel stated. “We received all these video games as a workforce and this isn’t going to alter right here. All people’s had a bit little bit of fault (with) these losses and now it’s a case of us sticking collectively and occurring to the subsequent sport on the street right here and discovering a solution to win that hockey sport.”

After Winnipeg had an 8-6 shot benefit within the first interval, St. Louis outshot the Jets 19-3 in second interval.

Throughout four-on-four play, Kyrou and Holloway gave the Blues a 2-0 lead after scoring 39 seconds aside.

Kyrou scored at 18:04 after his rebound went off Scheifele’s skate. Holloway notched his eighth of the season when he put in his personal rebound previous Hellebuyck at 18:43.

“That complete interval, we have been form of dominating them,” Kyrou stated. “We had tons of probabilities, and probabilities simply saved coming and coming and (Montgomery) was like, ‘We’re going to get one right here the final 4 minutes’ and we received two there so it was good.”

Kyrou registered his second purpose of the sport at 6:38 of the third, adopted by Scheifele’s purpose with 4:15 remaining and Thomas’s purpose with 3:39 left.

The Jets head out for a two-game street journey, starting Thursday in Buffalo towards the Sabres. The Blues journey to Calgary to play the Flames.

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