Jets leaning on experience as they prepare for home stand finale

WINNIPEG - There was a very business-like approach to Tuesday's practice for the Winnipeg Jets, which came a little under 12 hours after a 6-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
The work to get back in the win column started much earlier than the noon start time of practice, however.
"The video today, depending on your perspective wouldn't necessarily been very positive, but honest," said Jets head coach Paul Maurice.
"At the end of the day, I think we are we are quite honest in how we approach and how we deal with our challenges."

Monday's setback was the fourth straight loss for the Jets (27-18-3), who up until this point of the season had only lost consecutive games in regulation once.
Two of the losses on this four-game skid came against the Oilers. Edmonton seems to have Winnipeg's number in the season series, as the Oilers have come out on the winning side of the last five match-ups.

Last night, nearly all of Edmonton's offence came off the rush.
"We're not going to necessarily stop their transition, but we can certainly slow it down," said Neal Pionk. "That starts in the offensive zone. Whether it's something as simple as hanging on to the puck versus throwing it away, or cycling it down low and making sure it gets below the goal line. It starts in the offensive zone, then even in the neutral zone, just making sure the puck gets past the red line, past the blue line, and you keep advancing zones and making sure they have to come the full length of the ice."
Pionk says every player on the Jets roster has likely gone though a stretch like this in their careers.
Even last season, the Jets had a five-game losing streak, but turned that around and by the time the NHL season was paused in March, the team was on a four-game winning streak.
Of course, that was then, and this is now.
All the Jets can do is focus on today and the next match-up in front of them. They have an opportunity to climb back into second in the North Division with a victory in the home stand finale.
The key to that though, as Maurice referenced on Monday night, is changing gears.
He feels the teams around them in the standings, including the Oilers and the Toronto Maple Leafs, have made that shift as the postseason gets closer.

He feels the Jets had a chance to do the same, coming off a five-game road trip that produced four wins. However, that didn't happen.
Paul Stastny, who had an assist in Monday's loss, felt it was a trend dating back somewhere between 10-20 games.
"Sometimes, (Connor Hellebuyck) stood on his head and saved us," Stastny said. "(We need to) get away from the hope plays and get away from trying to do too much. Know who you're out there against, know who you're playing against and if you have to adjust to certain guys and certain teams, then you've got to be willing to do that if you want to win."
There weren't any changes to the Jets forward lines in Tuesday's practice:
Copp-Scheifele-Appleton
Connor-Dubois-Wheeler
Vesalainen-Stastny-Perreault
Harkins-Thompson-Lewis
Morrissey-Poolman
Forbort-Pionk
Benn-DeMelo
Adam Lowry remains in a non-contact jersey, so it looks like he won't be available for Wednesday's game against Edmonton.
If it's the same line-up, Mathieu Perreault wants to see his team respond.
"We definitely have to come out and play a better game," said Perreault. "We want to beat them, but we want to go back to playing a style of game that is going to give us a chance to be successful down the stretch here."

He said the mood around the room is as expected with the team hitting its first major speed bump of the season.
But there is also a belief, says Maurice, that the team knows they're much better than what they have been.
"It's tough because you lose a bit of that belief when you've lost a bunch of games, right? It can be a challenge in just staying focused and staying, in sometimes, staying relaxed and that's an unusual word," said Maurice.
"The game happened a handful of hours ago, so there hasn't been a lot of opportunity to create signs (that the team is turning a corner). We dealt with it today and we're going to be looking for those signs starting tomorrow."