{"id":447298,"date":"2026-02-05T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/447298\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:38:12","slug":"jets-coach-arniel-vents-on-montreal-canadiens-fans-taking-over-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/447298\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets coach Arniel vents on Montreal Canadiens fans taking over in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-arniel\/8445088\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-arniel\/8445088\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Arniel<\/a> was not pleased with the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> fans at the Canada Life Centre Wednesday as his team suffered a 5-1 blowout loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYeah, that\u2019s pretty disappointing,\u201d Arniel told reporters post game. \u201cThat\u2019s probably the worst that I\u2019ve seen it in my four years back here tonight. That was really disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wednesday\u2019s game represented the last for the Jets before the Olympic break, leaving the team with a 22-26-8 record at the pause, 11 points back of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jets have a 12-11-5 record on home ice this season after\u00a0going\u00a030-7-4 in Winnipeg last year en route to winning the Presidents\u2019 Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Taking over opposing rinks has become a trend for the Canadiens, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/rasmus-dahlin\/8480839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/rasmus-dahlin\/8480839\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> defencemen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jake-sanderson\/8482105\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Sanderson<\/a> recently echoing similar frustrations to Arniel\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI really, really appreciate the fans that came out, but I don\u2019t want to see that many red in the future,\u201d Dahlin said after a 4-2 loss to the Canadiens on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYeah,\u00a0we\u2019re used to it,\u201d Sanderson said after a 6-5 loss to Montreal on Jan. 17. \u201cPlaying an away game at home, it happens quite often. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens have found no shortage of success on the road this season, going 16-6-7 while travelling compared to a 16-11-1 record on home ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal sits second in the Atlantic Division, four points back of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> with three more games played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets head coach Scott Arniel was not pleased with the number of Montreal Canadiens fans at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[4759,5,78,33168,4,77,18,32441,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-447298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-winnipeg","14":"tag-winnipeg-jets","15":"tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52","16":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116019010213861636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}