from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

This was a place the Winnipeg Jets had never been before, and at the same time a milepost they were preordained to reach one day.

You can’t get to Flin Flon from here without passing through The Pas, and you can’t get past Round 2 without solving the kind of game plan Nashville threw at Winnipeg in Game 4 Thursday night.

A Game 4 on which a series always turns, against an experienced, desperate opponent that knew it could not afford to lose. So it took the game plan and did a 180, taking run-and-gun and turning it into clog-and-dump.

Suddenly, the hockey was not so much fun to play, and the crowd grew quiet. The battles ramped up — along the boards, in the middle of the ice, for time and space — and now the young Jets weren’t cruising around at warp speed anymore.

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Game highlights of Nashville's 2-1 win can be watched below.