Maybe you’re just like the Jets and you watched the end of Nashville’s Thursday night loss just to make sure it went in favour of your favourite team. Once again: Nashville’s games in hand mean almost nothing if Winnipeg wins the head-to-head matchup.
It’s the difference between Winnipeg putting the Predators away or Nashville making it a three-team race and it fully reflects the “just win” cliche we discussed earlier in the week.
Here’s the swing in odds between two Jets wins and two Predators wins, according to The Athletic’s Dom Luszczyszyn. If Winnipeg wins on Saturday and again in their rematch on April 8, those games in hand mean almost nothing. But the Jets can virtually bury the Predators’ chances by beating them in their two remaining matchups. Winnipeg leads Nashville by just four points and Nashville has three games in hand. That’s not exactly true - not yet, anyway. Against Boston on Thursday, “pretty good” wasn’t enough to earn the Jets a goal, and there’s a sense heading into Saturday that the Predators who sold at the trade deadline have more control of their future than the Jets who bought from them. The Jets have raised their level of play from porous to pretty good but haven’t won enough games of late to separate themselves from Nashville and Calgary for the final wild-card spot. That Winnipeg is scoreboard-watching with this level of intensity after spending parts of the season atop the Western Conference is a sign of the times.
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