Are players-only meetings a solution for what ails a struggling hockey team? That depends on whether you look at the glass being half-full or half-empty.

Much has been made of the players-only meeting Winnipeg Jets’ captain Adam Lowry called — without the knowledge of head coach Scott Arniel — following his team’s 5-1 loss at Buffalo Monday night. It was their fifth defeat in six games and it seems when a team loses to the Sabres, it has hit rock-bottom.

The Jets were more inspired Wednesday night at the Bell Centre but still lost, 3-2, to the Canadiens in a shootout. The visitors still got a loser’s point and came within a post on a Gabriel Vilardi shootout attempt in the third round of extending the game.

Glass half-full.

But Winnipeg lost nonetheless. Glass half-empty.

The Canadien

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