The rest of the team followed in lockstep behind their number-one line on a night where the Jets, likely for the first time this season, really needed to win a hockey game.
At the end of the night, the game sheet might have reflected that seven different players recorded goals for theBut what the NHL document of record doesn’t reveal is the sheer dominance the line of Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Gabe Vilardi played with in the Jets’ biggest offensive outburst since mid-October and their largest margin of victory of the season.
And as a result, the rest of the team followed in lockstep behind their number-one line on a night where the Jets, likely for the first time this season, really needed to win a hockey game. And not only was last night a win for the Jets, it was also perhaps a subtle message to everyone outside their dressing room that after a preposterous four-week road schedule and injuries to three key players, including Scheifele himself, that adversity can be a gift.Now, one game — and a major offensive one at that — only represents 60 minutes of hockey in a marathon of a season.
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