Thursday night in Edmonton, the Winnipeg Jets found out what it was like to watch a slow-moving horror movie that suddenly gets exciting before all hope is crushed in an instant. The Jets waited four and a half months to play hockey during the NHL's pandemic pause. It was a fitting end to a season where the Jets couldn't catch any break that didn't involve a physical injury. "It's extraordinary, to say the least, the circumstances we're all in now — but par for the course, for the Winnipeg Jets, [given] the year that we had," Maurice said. Jets forward Adam Lowry, however, expressed some optimism after the prolonged pandemic pause this spring was followed by what he described as "a whirlwind" this summer.

Source: CBC News August 07, 2020 10:50 UTC