MONTREAL, QC - If Paul Maurice and the Winnipeg Jets could bottle the effort they've put in, and the surgical precision with which they've executed over the past three nights - culminating in a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday afternoon - they'd take it today, tomorrow and 82 times a year.
"The players understand that you're going to lose games, but it's about (not) losing confidence," Maurice said following the game at the Bell Centre. "When we left that [Pittsburgh] game, you don't lose a thing. You feel terrible because you put a lot into it, but they didn't walk away playing any less confident - probably even more confident because even in an overtime loss, they were walking out of there saying 'That's what we're capable of doing on a nightly basis and that's our challenge.'"
Challenge accepted.
Unlike the Pittsburgh game, the Jets got the full two points they deserved this time around.
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