Winnipeg, get your head out of the clouds and embrace the battle.
Stop expecting your hockey team to “take that next step,” as the cliche goes, by beginning to win easily.
That’s like saying this winter’s going to be a cakewalk. It never is.
We don’t do easy winters.
And the Winnipeg Jets don’t do easy anything.
That seemed to be the message emanating from every pore of Blake Wheeler on Tuesday.
I had asked Wheeler about expectations, and whether it was unrealistic to expect the Jets to carbon-copy their game from a year ago, as if you could just place it on the glass top of the Xerox machine and hit the “copy” button.