Jets Five-Game Winning Streak Halted by Seattle

Jets shut out by joey daccord, drop to 5-2 on the season

The Winnipeg Jets five-game winning streak came to an ugly end on Thursday night.

With two empty net goals in the final two minutes of the contest, the Seattle Kraken beat the Jets 3-0 in a sleepy affair in front of 13,690 at Canada Life Centre.

The less said about this one the better. The Jets simply laid an egg, Seattle took advantage of a surprisingly flat Winnipeg team to grab a road win against one of the hottest teams in the league. The locals will have to pick it up on Friday night when the Calgary Flames come to town.

"Hopefully we can be a mature group here and take what we can from that game and not get too down on ourselves for not getting on there," forward Kyle Connor said after the game.

The Jets looked a tad sluggish in the first period, but they did have the best chance to score. With only seconds left on the clock, Scheifele hit the cross bar behind Seattle’s Joey Daccord, but that was it.

Winnipeg outshot Seattle 10-9 in what was a pretty pedestrian opening period.

In the second, Seattle’s Jaden Schwartz opened the scoring at 2:28 as he banged home a loose puck in the slot. It was his third goal of the season.

The second period ended with Seattle up 1-0 and the Jets just didn’t look like a team that was going to do much if anything on this night. Seattle outshot Winnipeg 11-8 in the second period, and really, it was a giant nothingburger.

In the third, the Jets came out with some jump and outshot the Kraken 10-1 to start the period, but they just couldn’t solve the riddle of Joey Daccord.

Seattle put a cork in it at 18:20 as Schwartz scored his second of the night into an empty net to give the Kraken a 2-0 lead. Jordan Eberle scored another empty-netter just 33 seconds later and the building emptied.

Winnipeg outshot Seattle 32-28, 12-7 in the third. The Jets outhit Seattle 32-13 and won 57.4 per cent of the faceoffs, but proved once again that stats are for losers.