Recap: Jets Fly By Canes

The Carolina Hurricanes had their six-game point streak grounded by the Winnipeg Jets in an 8-1 loss on Friday.
The Jets netted four goals in the first period en route to sweeping the two-game season series between these two old Southeast Division foes.

One
"That was just not us," a dejected Justin Williams offered after the game.
And that just about sums it up.
That was not the Hurricanes of 2018-19, certainly not the Hurricanes of 2019.
That was the first true clunker, the first game all season that, from the start, felt like the Hurricanes just didn't have it.
"You name it, we weren't there," Williams said. "You name any play, they won it."
"We didn't have anything going. I don't think there was one part of our game that was any good. We were getting beat right from the beginning," Justin Faulk said. "We made it very, very easy on them."
Two
So, you flush it and move on.
For the Hurricanes, that might be easy - at least, easier - to do, considering they get right back on the horse less than 24 hours from now in Nashville.
"It's not something we want to see. Certainly not acceptable," head coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "Haven't had one of those this year, really. Had a couple bad games, for sure, but nothing like that. That's a little shocking. I didn't expect that at all. The good news is we've got to go play tomorrow. We can kind of tank this game and move one."

The response will say more about this Hurricanes team than the box score of this game.
"Guys come in, come to work and bring maximum effort every day. That's how we get through that and how we've managed to be where we are today. That's the only way we can look at it tomorrow," Faulk said. "We just need to work and compete. You do that, it's OK. It looks right. Everyone's on board. That's not OK."
It will be a tall task for the Hurricanes to rebound in Nashville, an emotional gut-check for a team to right the wrong of a game from the night prior against a team sitting near the top of their division that has been waiting since Tuesday to sink their teeth into Saturday's match-up.
But, if the Hurricanes have been anything in the last two-and-a-half months, it's resilient.
"We've always answered the bell this year so far, and it's time to do it again," Williams said. "This time of the year, a game like that can go one way or the other."
Three
In such a run as the Hurricanes have been on since New Year's Eve - a 21-6-2 record entering Friday, which was tied for the most wins and points by any NHL team in that stretch - a game like this was bound to happen.
As fun as it would be, the Hurricanes aren't going to go undefeated down the stretch.
And, if we're searching for the silver lining, the two points the Canes surrendered in this one went to a team in the opposite conference.
"It just counts as a loss at the end of the day," Brind'Amour said. "I think it's probably easier to park that one and move on than if we lost in the last minute or so. We'll see."
Four
Greg McKegg scored the lone goal of the game, a simple redirection in front of a Calvin de Haan point shot.

Laurent Brossoit made 42 saves on 43 shots against the Hurricanes in October. He didn't see as much rubber tonight, and the Canes couldn't convert when they needed to.
The Jets did, and that was that.
"Every grade-A we gave up, it went in the back of our net. We couldn't recover," Brind'Amour said. "The game was almost over before it got started, unfortunately."
The most unfortunate part of the eight-goal onslaught was that Curtis McElhinney had to absorb it. Because of the back-to-back situation, Saturday's starter Petr Mrazek wasn't going to get tossed into the fray after a 4-0 first period.
"That bothers me more than anything because [McElhinney] has been solid for us. That was a tough way to lose a game," Brind'Amour said. "I didn't expect that kind of effort."
"What happened in the first 10 minutes of the game and the last three minutes of that game was totally, totally inexcusable and something that, quite frankly, we're all ashamed of," Williams said. "We all owe [McElhinney] an apology for that."
Five
Micheal Ferland continues to fight through injuries.
A nagging upper-body injury that Ferland reaggravated in Boston made him a game-time decision for Friday's tilt, and despite being able to dress, he didn't make it through the game - again.
In the third period, Dmitry Kulikov lined up Ferland with a heavy, clean hit that appeared to be shoulder to chest. Ferland was slow to get up, went to the room and did not return. Brind'Amour did not have an update on his status following the game.
Up Next
Turn the page. The Canes fly to Nashville to take on the Predators on Saturday night.