They came dressed in all white and left feeling all blue. Not more than a week since playoff fever gripped downtown Winnipeg for the first time since the mid-1990s under a different franchise incarnation, it was all over Wednesday night. The Anaheim Ducks, it turned out, were not interested in any feel-good, small-market Canadian team playoff-run storylines.
The Ducks completed the first-round Western Conference series sweep in front of the monochrome crowd at the MTS Centre. One can say this much for the Jets: Among all that white in the building, Winnipeg never tossed in a flag of that color.