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OK, what was a bigger gut punch?
Anaheim scoring three in 181 seconds with John Gibson pulled in Game 5 on May 5 2017, to tie it and winning it on Corey Perry’s goal seven minutes into double OT in California? Or this total collapse in Winnipeg on Sunday?
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This was the first time the Jets have beaten in the Oilers in the playoffs in Winnipeg in 31 years, one week and two days as Hockey Night in Canada’s Scott Oake said. He must have a calendar in his bedroom as he trotted out that stat, before the OT winner by Nikolaj Ehlers.
The Oilers and Jets met six times in the post-season between 1983 and 1990. Edmonton won each series and captured five Stanley Cups during the span. I think it was bad timing on our part because we were playing against one of the best teams in hockey history. Edmonton was loaded up, said Dave Ellett, a former Jets defenceman who saw action in four iterations of the playoff saga. But you know what? We were close. … We were in the games and we were hanging with them.
The Jets and Oilers will renew their rivalry on Wednesday when they kick off the first round of the North Division playoffs in Edmonton.