{"id":506339,"date":"2026-03-16T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/506339\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:10:32","slug":"analysis-winnipeg-jets-cole-perfetti-share-common-goal-of-avoiding-lost-season-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/506339\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Winnipeg Jets, Cole Perfetti share common goal of avoiding lost season – Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Winnipeg Jets rescued their \u201cmake or break\u201d homestand with a pair of huge wins over Colorado and St. Louis on the weekend.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not unlike how Cole Perfetti has \u201cresurrected\u201d what was once looking like a lost season on an individual basis.<\/p>\n

It did not look good for Winnipeg when they began the week by delivering consecutive \u201cunderwhelming\u201d performances in the disappointing defeats to Anaheim and the Rangers.<\/p>\n

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With back-to-back visits from league-leading Colorado and red-hot St. Louis on the horizon, the homestand was beginning to look like a lost cause \u2014 until the Jets recovered for those impressive 3-1 and 3-2 decisions over the Avs and Blues, respectively.<\/p>\n

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You could write a similar script to outline how the season has gone to date for Perfetti. After struggling for most of November and December while coming back off a high ankle sprain, a critical season for the 24-year-old forward was taking on water and in danger of going under.<\/p>\n

But a lifeboat arrived in the form of the Christmas Break and, ever since, Perfetti has steadily looked more and more like the player who produced the Manitoba Miracle.<\/p>\n

Promotion to the No. 1 power-play unit, and while the Jets have struggled with the extra skater, the offensive production has returned for No. 91, with 10 points in the last 13 games in particular.<\/p>\n

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And so has the 200-foot game. Perfetti has been consistently playing on a shutdown line of sorts with Adam Lowry and has earned trust from the coaching staff to the point where, during this homestand, he was out on the ice for a huge late-game tying goal against Chicago, and that clutch empty net clincher versus the Avs Saturday afternoon after poke-checking the puck away from Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n

How discussions go on a 3rd pro contract fall into the \u201cto be determined\u201d category. But one thing is for sure \u2014 Perfetti has played himself into a much more favourable bargaining position when negotiations do eventually get underway.<\/p>\n

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