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As the month of March comes to a close, so too do the hopes for the Winnipeg Jets\u2019<\/a> 25-26 season. Thursday night\u2019s loss to Colorado<\/a> reflected so much of what has been positive for Winnipeg since the Olympic break. They played well enough to win for about 55 minutes. The first five minutes of the third period proved too much to overcome.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n In the last 30 days \u2014 16 games \u2014 this team has eight wins, four losses and four overtime or shootout losses. That\u2019s 20 of a possible 32 points. Quite frankly, those are respectable numbers.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n But this late-season surge, grasping for a playoff spot, should not disguise a season that can only be described as unfulfilling. It\u2019s too early to do a full autopsy on this Jets team, but this is just a little glimpse into the next six months of water cooler discussions.<\/p>\n Countless times this season we have been reminded that you can\u2019t win a playoff spot during the regular season but you can certainly lose one. For this team, for this season, that playoff spot was lost in November and December, when the Jets went 7-16-4. They had 18 points in those 61 days of the season.\u00a0\u00a0 By comparison, Thursday night\u2019s opposition had 49 points. Forty-nine! Dallas had 43; Minnesota had 42.<\/p>\n Oh sure, you could point to the slow rehab of Cole Perfetti and Adam Lowry, and the surgery for Connor Hellebuyck, but if you do that, you are suggesting that this team, as constructed, might be good enough next season to compete in the tough Central Division. You are suggesting patience over change. You are suggesting that this season is an outlier.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Sports Don\u2019t be fooled: Colorado, Dallas and Minnesota set the bar in this division. It is a bar that is certainly high, but also young and fast. Ask yourself the question, are the Jets fast enough, and young enough to play next season\u2019s 84-game schedule at the same level as the Avalanche, Stars and Wild?<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Not to worry, we don\u2019t need an answer right now.\u00a0 There will be plenty of off-season to discuss it.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size As the month of March comes to a close, so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,43,18,387],"class_list":{"0":"post-525846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-winnipeg-jets","12":"tag-winnipeg-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116301670608810645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525846","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=525846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\")
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