Dominant Jets establish two new records on Saturday.
The Winnipeg Jets are off to an incredible start, and that includes establishing two new records in a single night on Saturday.
The Winnipeg Jets are having an incredible start to the 2024-25 National Hockey League season, one that has been so dominant in fact that it has set a new bar at the NHL level.
The Jets have gone 14-1 to start the regular season, establishing a new mark for the best start through 15 games in NHL history as the only team to win 14 of those first 15 games. The Jets did so by defeating the Dallas Stars on Saturday in what was another dominant and exciting performance in front of a home crowd at the Canada Life Centre.
The Jets treated their fans to a great win and then some with some heated moments in the game including a captain vs. captain fight in the third period that saw Stars captain Jamie Benn and Jets captain Adam Lowry dropping the gloves. The Jets fans certainly were into it themselves chasing Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger from the game with one of the most brutal chants you're going to hear at an NHL game.
As if establishing a new record for the best start through 15 games in NHL history wasn't enough, the Jets established a second record on the day with goaltender Connor Hellebuyck setting a new franchise benchmark of his own. Hellebuyck now holds the longest shutout streak in Winnipeg Jets history after not allowing a single goal over a span of 191 minutes and 47 seconds beating the previous record of 187 minutes and 5 seconds set by Ondrej Pavelec back in 2015.
Fans in Winnipeg are understandably over the moon with how well their team is currently playing and the only question now is how long will they be able to maintain this kind of pace? And perhaps more importantly, will they be able to achieve this level of success when it matters most, in the upcoming 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs.