Jets Bounce Back in Game 5 | Winnipeg’s Third Line Saves the Season - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

Desperate times call for big performances—and Winnipeg's third line delivered in Game 5. A shaky Hellebuyck nearly cost them, but elite defense sealed the win. A huge response by the Jets! Peter Klein broke it all down on Couch Potato Diary.  #NHLJets #StanleyCupPlayoffs #WinnipegJets  🔗 Stay Connected & Support the Show 🎧 Listen & Subscribe:  Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-potato-diary/id1564122189  Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM 🧠 Partners & Promos:  C of Dead Apparel → https://www.cofdead403.ca/  Swift Energy → https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm  🎁 Use Promo Code: PKPrimetime for 25% off! 📲 Follow Me:  Twitter (X) → https://x.com/primetimeklein  Instagram → https://instagram.com/primetimeklein  Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary  Twitch → https://twitch.tv/primetimepk 📬 Business Inquiries & Fan Mail:  Email → couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com

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00:00the stanley cup playoffs continue and for the winnipeg jets the only way they're going to

00:11continue for the next little while is if they stepped up last night and boy did they as they

00:17pick up a 5-3 win over the st louis blues in a game that they absolutely had to have and quite

00:24frankly for most of them it was a performance that they absolutely had to have um look shifley has

00:31been excellent in this series now there's some concern because he plays eight minutes gets

00:36absolutely railroaded by brayden shen and then doesn't come back uh so no update on his status

00:42and it's this time of year so that's going to probably be a consistent theme um until the game

00:48that they play coming up tomorrow but that would be a really tough loss for them because his

00:54his playmaking is just on full display and um out here in calgary i was on sportsnet 960 last friday

01:01and one of the the texters asked a question who is the most underrated player in all of sports

01:05and honestly now thinking about it i think shifley could definitely fall into that category because i

01:11just don't think people appreciate the elite level of talent that this guy has like he is i think a

01:16really good offensive player and his playmaking is just it is marvelous some of the passes that

01:22he is able to make and look like a lot of times it's not just like a oh wow he somehow pinballed

01:26it through five guys and it got to the front of the net but it's just the quick decisions it is the

01:30puck is in the perfect place always and it sets up connor for that first goal and it is coming off of

01:36winning a lot of battles along the wall and that's where winnipeg i think really showed their

01:41true colors in this game this is a different team than winnipeg teams we have seen in the past but

01:47the i guess the the identity of this winnipeg jets team is always we're going to be tough to play

01:54against and i think sometimes you can look at um you know shifley to a certain degree connor um

02:01ehlers perfetti some of them like they're not this isn't dustin bufflin and blake wheeler running over

02:06people or something like that but it is those plays along the wall that they are able to create

02:11offense off of very quickly and you saw it in that game um suitor i thought had a tough one and

02:16the play behind the net on the first goal appleton gets clipped by something he believes it's

02:21a high stick st louis disagrees and the referee agrees with st louis um but as appleton is slowly

02:26getting up and kind of grabbing at his face here um as he's grabbing at his face suitor gives him an

02:32extra shot the problem is the puck's behind suitor and then it's to an angle uh just kind of to his

02:38three o'clock and then it's right beside him because it went in the back of the net and he had

02:41a couple that he got beat on uh appleton beat him in the corner on the second goal as well maybe third

02:47either way um appleton beat him in the corner that helped set up um another goal so suitor had a bit

02:53of a rough night but it is off of a board battle shifley gets it and a lot of times i think when we

02:58talk about like oh he won this board battle it is with brute strength or whatever you can use talent

03:04in those ones as well and his hands and again the playmaking ability his vision of the ice and just

03:09his instincts in general he gets the puck it is off his stick so quick um and now suitor again has taken

03:15a guy behind the net you have a forward who has lost the battle in front um texia has lost connor who

03:22does a really good job of getting to an open area a lot of times you just want to get like right

03:26front of the net he takes a bit of half of a step back now he's open for a shot and now it's in the

03:30back of the net so just a brilliant setup and something that they will really really miss if

03:35shifley is out of the lineup but when he does exit the lineup enters so enters i guess the third line

03:43they were brilliant in this game for winnipeg and i i have said this is the best third line in the nhl

03:50and it was one of the reasons why i was talking about winnipeg kind of needing to go get that second

03:55line center because if you can lock up like that top line is going to be good you know like shifley

04:00connor and whoever um if you can get that second line a real legitimate center and then you can roll

04:07with a bottom six with lowry nemestnikov niederreiter and appleton um like that's that that is depth that

04:16few teams are able to put out there at this point in the national hockey league in this era with a lot

04:22of stars taking up a lot of the salary cap and so that line just completely controlled things for

04:28them i like i said i thought appleton was great lowry was really good nemestnikov was fantastic

04:33the speed that he still has and the finishing ability that he has as well to be able to put

04:38things away i loved what i saw from winnipeg in those games or in this game so i i just think like

04:44that third line is enough that like obviously the high-end talent on st louis is there kairu thomas

04:52um i would put snugger root in there at this point he's been excellent in this series uh butchnevich

04:57has had some great moments as well that that high-end talent is there for st louis but that depth

05:02isn't not to the point of winnipeg and like honestly i don't know who has that and in basketball

05:08we talk about how depth is a little bit overblown in the nba playoffs it ain't in the nhl playoffs how

05:14many times have we seen like everyone goes for the big moves at the trade deadline but the team

05:19that has the success is the one that shores up their depth now the counterpoint to that is colorado

05:23did it and those guys aren't doing shit right now but still um that third line can win you hockey

05:29games and when you are trying to win four out of seven having a third line that can win you one

05:35certainly makes life easier and it just helped settle winnipeg into this game in a really important

05:41way they played an excellent hockey game um throughout they were so superior in this game

05:48and then the problem and it is funny because in the first couple game or the last couple of games i

05:53guess i i have said look it's 12 goals it's two games it's two really bad losses i don't think

06:00it's hellebuck's fault entirely now and then we got into some discussions about like maybe not every

06:06high danger chance needs to go in but you can't blame him for any of those goals and now they pick

06:12up a win and they only give up three and one is in the final minute after they've iced the game away

06:17um and i actually had a more of a problem with his game in this one than i did the other two like

06:24this this performance on uh last night on thursday sorry wednesday night was more in line with what

06:30people i think the perception was of the last two games if that makes sense like i thought he actually

06:36played pretty well in the two games leading up to it it was just he didn't make those key saves at key

06:40times i thought in this game that they won i thought he was putrid um that that second goal that just

06:46can't go in and when you are a winnipeg team that is already really fragile you have some concerns

06:55about that and so when you now feel like you can't make a mistake that becomes really problematic like

07:02this game it's 5-3 i mean 4-2 basically uh you get an empty net goal and then st louis gets one

07:07like i said after everything's been iced away it shouldn't have been that close not even a little

07:11bit winnipeg completely controlled this hockey game and so this was the one that i was like man

07:15hellebuck dude like i don't i don't know man like that was that was a really really bad performance

07:21on a night where now everyone around him stepped up and picked him up and got him there but

07:27that was that was the one that was the most concerning to me from a winnipeg standpoint it

07:32wasn't the two games leading up to this one that game that was so so bad he almost cost them on a

07:38night where i thought they were soundly outplaying st louis and so look there were a lot of problems in

07:44the two games leading up to it where i thought st louis really outplayed winnipeg and then you're not

07:50getting the big saves at the big times and so it all snowballs but if winnipeg is going to have to

07:55just whoop that ass to this extent enable in order to win games by two that become that's that's

08:02where you start to have a real problem between the pipes so um that there is i honestly i came away

08:09from this one even though they won more concerned about winnipeg than i was going into it and that

08:16i i was not necessarily anticipating it is kind of funny though like i um again out here in calgary

08:22do a trivia night on wednesday so i wasn't able to watch this live i get to um when i'm doing that

08:27like i just i kind of tune out from all the sports because i got this thing to focus on and so i i

08:31walked into pazzy uh where i do this downtown and um they got the games on the tv and i see winnipeg

08:38against st louis and when st louis is up four to one i was like oh my god like this is this is a

08:44this is at home this is a train wreck and so i okay start setting up look up is that oh this

08:49is a replay from the okay so sportsnet duped me a little bit on that because i like in my head

08:53because i know i got the podcast today i'm like that this is a complete collapse and utter failure

08:57i don't think they've quit i just think they're overwhelmed blah blah blah blah and then you look

09:01up it's like oh it's kind of a shitty whiteout oh it's the last game okay good um actually honestly

09:07the only way i caught it was i looked over and they had the montreal game on and it said pre-game

09:10coverage live now boy that a little late for that isn't it if we're in the second oh i see

09:16so uh that's just me being weird but on the st louis side i think they really showed how far behind

09:22the jets they really are here um again winnipeg has not played well in the two previous games

09:29but this is awfully similar to the la edmonton series when these two teams are playing at their

09:33best there is no question who is the better team and it is the one who resides in central canada

09:38the the the blues are just like forward group one through four blue line all of it um even when

09:45the goalies are playing at their best that they're not close they're just simply not close winnipeg is

09:49so much better than they are and so maybe st louis is able to be the banana peel for the jets now in

09:55the next two because we've seen winnipeg doesn't exactly bounce back all that quickly so if st louis

10:00can come out get a good start on home ice like they did back in game three then they have a chance to

10:04again put the fear of god in the jets because their goalie isn't giving them the confidence

10:08to be able to to bounce back in that sort of a way so again i would just have i would just have

10:15some concerns if i was the the jets but looking at um looking at it from a st louis blue standpoint

10:23i'm not saying hey no we can bounce back because we're better than that hey we can bounce back because

10:27they they might get a little spooked here uh that's basically what it comes down to a reminder that

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