Winnipeg Free Press · Dec 5, 2018
Battle-scarred Jets fly successful mission to league's eastern front
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The Winnipeg Jets won all three games during the team's trip to the east coast. (Julio Cortez / The Associated Press files)NEW YORK — The Winnipeg Jets escaped from New York in the wee hours Wednesday mentally drained after three tense road games with a depleted roster due to a rash of injuries.
But, as is the way in sports, teams define themselves by the sum of their parts and, in many ways, the Jets returned to the Manitoba capital a much stronger collective.
And as some guy named Mark Twain once wrote, "Make your mark in New York and you are a made man."