Jets know the areas they need to improve on in Game 3

WINNIPEG - A quick optional practice, a meeting, and a flight to Montreal were on the itinerary for the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, as they prepare for their second set of back-to-back games in the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The first time they faced it came in the first round against the Edmonton Oilers.
In that scenario, they were up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series and were heading home to Bell MTS Place.
This time, though, things are different.
Trailing the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 in the series, the Jets are looking to get back on even footing over the course of the next two games in Montreal.

"I think with the experience we have in this group, we're comfortable about going in and playing on the road," said Jets forward Adam Lowry. "We have the depth, they have last change so they're going to be able to get their matchups, but we have the players that are going to be able to play against their top guys, against their top pairings. To be successful, it's just important that we get off to a good start tomorrow and I think that's what we're looking to do."
Perhaps some of the experience Lowry and his teammates can draw on is the fact a number of them have been in this position before.
Including Lowry, nine of the players on the current Jets roster were on the team in 2019 when they headed into St. Louis in the exact same scenario.
Two games later, a 2-0 series deficit was an even series heading back to Winnipeg.

One of those nine players - Mark Scheifele - won't be available in Game 3 on Sunday at the Bell Centre, as he serves the second game of his four-game suspension.
However, that doesn't mean there is any less confidence in the Jets dressing room.
"It's confidence in our game-plan, knowing that if we're doing what Paul (Maurice) is asking and what we've been shown on video to be successful, it's going to come," said Lowry. "It's not going to happen every shift, you're not going to create a chance every shift, but if you continue to do it you're going to start to get your chances, you're going to start being able to get to the net and get those second and third opportunities."
The Jets had 30 shots in Game 2, but Montreal's Carey Price stopped every single one of them.
So those second and third opportunities, as well as increasing the traffic in front of the net, will become key for the Jets as they look to get on the board in the series.
Of Winnipeg's 30 shots, 14 came from defencemen.
"We've given (Price) far too many clean looks from the outside, where we've had chances to sustain the pressure but we get pushed aside as forwards," said Lowry. "Most goalies are going to be stopping shots from the outside, without a deflection or no screen. It's going to be something that we're definitely going to be looking to improve upon in the next few games."
With Scheifele and Paul Stastny out of the line-up in Game 2, Andrew Copp played 21:43 in Game 2 between primarily Kristian Vesalainen and Nikolaj Ehlers, while Pierre-Luc Dubois took over Scheifele's spot between Kyle Connor and Blake Wheeler.
Dubois had an assist in Game 1, then followed that up with four hits and a shot on goal in 20:09 of ice time in Game 2.
"I don't see it as filling in for Mark. He's a fantastic player, he's his own player. I'm my own player," said Dubois. "I just see it as doing what I do best, doing what I can to help this team win. I put a lot of pressure on myself but at the same time I know when to relax and just go play."
Dubois has three assists in five playoff games in a Jets jersey. Maurice thinks the next step for Dubois to take in the series - with or without Scheifele in the line-up - is a certain level of physicality with the puck.
Maurice saw flashes of it in Game 2.
"That's something he can build on. It's not just finishing checks and those kind of things, he can take people to the net," said Maurice. "We think he can do some things that use speed and size with the puck."

The Jets have yet to hold a lead in the second round, and while Dubois feels getting the opening goal isn't the most important thing in Game 3 - hey, look back to that series in 2019 against the Blues and the Jets didn't open the scoring in that game either, yet won 6-3 - it might put the Canadiens in a spot they haven't been in since they started a five-game win streak in the postseason.
"You're never out of the fight, even if you're down 2-0 in the game but getting that first goal, I think, opens up the play a bit for them," said Dubois. "you're never out of it if you get scored on first but if we can get that lead, if we can get the first goal, it definitely changes the rhythm of the game, changed the outlook of the game.
"There's nothing that ever definitive. A one-goal lead doesn't mean anything until the game is over but it can definitely help throughout the game, throughout the whole 60 minutes."
The Jets believe that if they improve in those few areas, that by the end of the next 60 minutes, they'll have a good chance of being right back in this series.