Will Scheifele/Benn animosity carry over to Game 6?

Will Scheifele/Benn animosity carry over to Game 6?

After that big Jets four nothing win at home in game five. We have to speak with our Winnipeg bureau chief John Lou. What a gutsy win by this team. John, would you go so far as to say collectively this was Winnipeg’s best game of the Stanley Cup playoff so far? Yeah, I absolutely would, Jay, because given the circumstances, the situation they were in is that they absolutely had to win tonight. And yes, they shut out the Dallas Stars 4 nothing in game two. They had an incredibly dramatic uh moments or set of moments in game seven against St. Louis that will live in hockey lore in Winnipeg forever. But this was the most complete effort from the Winnipeg Jets from front to back, top to bottom in these playoffs. And Scott Arneil mentioned that too. From the goalie through the D through the forwards, everybody contributed on the roster. And we’ll start with Connor Hella. I mean, he didn’t face a whole lot this evening because his team was so good in front of him. But less than a minute into the second period, he makes a stop point blank on Thomas Harley that kept the score at zeros, opening the door for his teammates to score, to take the lead and not look back. And then look at the defense. Look at the forwards, their back check, their structure. They went eight and a half minutes in the second half of the second period without allowing a shot on goal of the Dallas Stars. And forwards Nikolai Eers kept rolling. Mark Shley scored for the first time since game one. The power play clicked twice. The penalty killing was perfect. Jay, this was about as airtight and perfect a win by the Winnipeg Jets as you could possibly imagine in these playoffs so far. And you mentioned Mark Shley got a goal which is terrific. He also had an assist. He was fighting hard against Jaime Ben, which is a tough thing to do because Jaime Ben’s a tough customer. Now, he took the worst of it and he was pretty upset about that on the bench as we saw. Do you think some of that animosity will carry over to game six on Saturday night? Yeah. Yeah, Jay, I think that was kind of what would we consider that sort of like a um a modified or a Gordy How hat-trick light. Uh but uh you know what Pete Dbor said that uh it’s an emotional series. We’re now five games into it. The stakes are incredibly high for the Winnipeg Jets. And uh so Pete Dbor said that hatred has settled into this uh into this series. Scott Arneil, as you can imagine, was absolutely not pleased with the fact that Mark Shiffley came away with the two-minute minor for roughing after he’d have been clocked with that left jab by Jamie Ben. And so yeah, I think that you can certainly imagine that because the emotions are running still high that the organic nature of this series will continue into game six that there were more scrums, more post- whistle uh animosity uh in this in this game than there was at any other point in the se in the series so far. And so it just makes it that much more interesting. But Jay, I will make one more note about Mark Shley because we’ve been talking music every hit in this series so far and I’m going to stick with that. During pregame, the Jets in-house band, they’re called Mach 10. They were playing AC/DC’s Shoot to Thrill. Well, that happened to be Mark Schiffley’s goal song. And so, hey, who should score in the second period with the eventual D GWG and the AC/DC Classic is on the PA. So, there’s a little connection. Little foreshadowing. Don’t know if they did that intentionally, but there’s your music note for my hit for this one here, J. I love this. This is practically turning into uh much music and I’m all for it. John Lou, you’re terrific. And the Jets going to try to even this series up Saturday night in Dallas for game number six.

TSN Winnipeg Bureau Reporter John Lu joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss the Jets’ incredible Game 5 performance that kept their season alive, and whether he thinks the animosity from the third period between Mark Scheifele and Jamie Benn will carry over into Game 6.