Three Surprises from the Winnipeg Jets so far this Season

The Winnipeg Jets have had their fair share of surprises so far this season. Here are three surprises from the 2021-2022 Winnipeg Jets.

The holiday season and Christmas are sometimes filled with surprises. At the Christmas break and thirty games into the 2021-2022 season, the Winnipeg Jets have had some surprises this season.

Surprises for a hockey team can either be good or bad. Some good surprises could be a player stepping up and becoming a key figure and contributor to the team or a team that was supposed to be in a rebuild are in playoff position, while some bad surprises can happen when a team that is supposed to be a contender does not live up to those expectations or a star player does not perform to expectations.

Already at this point in the season, there have been some surprises for the Jets. Here are three of them:

3. Eric Comrie

As our site wrote about a few days ago, goaltender Eric Comrie has stepped up in a huge way for the Jets and has been a surprise to many this season.

Coming into this season, Comrie was an inexperienced goaltender at the NHL level. Prior to this season, he had only appeared in eight NHL games, but the Jets decided to take a chance on the twenty-six-year-old and name him as the backup to Connor Hellebuyck.

During each season in the NHL, Comrie never had a goals against average below three and the only time his save percentage was .900 or better was last year when he only appeared in one game.

This decision has paid dividends for Winnipeg as Comrie has posted a 3-2-0 record with a 2.53 goals against average and a .914 save percentage.

Although he has not played often, each time Comrie has started, he has given the Jets a great chance to win.