In their first game back since the Olympic break, the Winnipeg Jets got back in the win column to continue their mostly winning ways with coach Paul Maurice, now 10-3-1, the Jets defeated the visiting Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 in a shootout.
The game shouldn't went that far as the Jets out-played the Yotes a majority of the time. A clearly chincy call for hooking (and I mean phantom penalty in every sense of the word) on Mark Stuart. The Coyotes capitalized on the ensuing power-play and tied the game at two. Overtime solved nothing and Olli Jokinen has a shootout winner to go along with his recent Olympic bronze medal. Devin Setoguchi also scored in the shoot-out for the Jets.
Ondrej Pavelec silenced his critics, at least on this night, as he was brilliant when he had to be, especially in the shoot-out.
The Jets are now only two points behind the Dallas Stars for the second wild card spot and the eighth seed in the NHL Western conference. However, between the sixth-place Nashville Predators and the eighth-place Stars, only four points separate five clubs, including the Jets.
The Jets now sit in fifth with an overall record of 29-26-6 for 64 points.
