The 50-minute session almost had a bit of a 'training camp' feel in that the Jets took some drills, like breakouts off face-offs, at a slower pace before ramping it up to full speed. They worked on neutral zone positioning. They worked on as many aspects of the priority list as possible to reassert their identity.
"You do this lots in different areas," Arniel said. "You might do it in your own zone cycle, you might do it on breakouts. This was one area that you don't get to touch too often. We just wanted to make sure that we did a good job with it."
None of the injured seven - Saku Maenalanen, Nikolaj Ehlers, Blake Wheeler, Logan Stanley, Cole Perfetti, or Nate Schmidt - skated with the group on Wednesday.
The hope, based on head coach Rick Bowness' comments ahead of Tuesday's game, remains that Maenalanen would be the first player to return, and that could come within a week.
Until those bodies start to come back though, the Jets took a look at some different line combinations:
Connor-Dubois-Gagner
Lowry-Scheifele-Kuhlman
Barron-Stenlund-AJF
Eyssimont-Gustafsson-Harkins
Morrissey-DeMelo
Samberg-Pionk
Dillon-Heinola/Capobianco
With a bunch of new faces playing in different spots, Morrissey says details become even more important.
"If I see the other four guys on the ice in their position I can be aggressive," he said. "But if one of those guys is five feet off, or multiple guys are five feet off, and I'm kind of caught in between, then you're flat-footed and you see that on the forecheck, in the neutral zone and d-zone coverage."
One of Winnipeg's best games in the last couple weeks came against the very team they'll be hosting on Thursday night - the Vancouver Canucks.
Back on December 17, the Jets had goals from five different players in a 5-1 win over Vancouver. On that night, the Jets hounded the Canucks all over the ice and didn't give them any easy ice. The defence was involved in the offence, and they capitalized off turnovers that resulted from being strong defensively.
It's a template that works, regardless of the line-up, and playing that way will also give the Jets a chance to snap out of this season's first three-game losing streak.
"We've talked all of our lines looking the same," said Arniel. "We can't all of a sudden turn and reinvent some new kind of game. A lot of the emphasis last night and this morning is about 'hey, let's go back to what we do well and that was eliminating the amount of scoring chances that we give up and create them from that good structure.'"
They don't have to look too far back for video of that good structure, and Morrissey believes the confidence in the room remains high.
"I think the systems kind of feed the ability to be aggressive, and being in the right spot allows you to be aggressive, knowing that you can trust your linemates and teammates that they're in the right spot," Morrissey said. "It happens all over the ice, and that's why it was nice to be able to work on a lot of stuff today. That should allow us to play that fast, aggressive game that we've been successful with."
