Luke Schenn explains how the Jets finally snapped out of their slump

A week ago, this season felt like it was slipping away.

Now Winnipeg has ripped off four straight wins, and you can see shoulders dropping on the bench again.

The crazy part is how deep the hole was.

The Jets ended an 11-game skid with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, January 9, and that night looked like a team just trying to breathe.

Then the wins stacked, and the math started to look less hopeless.

ESPN's team page has Winnipeg at 19-22-5 for 43 points through 46 games.

That turnaround matters even more because of what this group was last season.

The Jets won the 2024-25 Presidents' Trophy at 56-22-4 with 116 points, so the standard in that room is not «just survive.»

When Nick Alberga asked Luke Schenn how teams crawl out of stretches like this, his answer was basically veteran muscle memory.

Schenn talked about showing up, grinding daily, blocking out noise, and letting one good win bring back smiles and looseness.

As a fan, it feels like the room finally stopped squeezing the stick, and started playing like a team that expects good things again.

Schenn is a good messenger for it, because his career has been long enough to include every kind of slump.

He's 36, a 2008 fifth-overall pick, and he's in the last year of a deal that carries a $2.75 million cap hit.

He's not here to run a power play, he's here to steady shifts.

ESPN and Puckpedia both list him at one goal and five points in 31 games, and even that one goal, the January 6 wrister against Vegas, felt like a little exhale moment.

The streak has also come with a simpler identity.

Winnipeg has defended earlier in the neutral zone, gotten pucks behind coverage, and relied on work instead of perfect plays, which is exactly what Schenn was describing without saying it like a coach.

If the Jets keep that mindset, the next milestone is obvious.

Turn four wins into a real month, because that's when a lost season becomes a race again.