It’s a simple game, this hockey: the more pucks you get to the net, the more pucks are likely to go into the net. And the more pucks that go into the net, well, like former Winnipeg Jets head coach Claude Noel used to say, the more joy there is in Joyland.
So yeah, it’s little wonder the Jets lost 4-1 to the Colorado Avalanche Monday night when two-thirds of what the team tracked as "scoring chances" didn’t actually result in a frozen piece of rubber striking the Colorado goaltender, much less the twine behind him.
