It’s difficult to sell Tuesday night’s loss to the Dallas Stars as anything other than what it was for the Winnipeg Jets : another loss.

Following the 4-3 home-ice setback , Winnipeg has now won just two of its last 10 games and fallen to NHL .500 for the first time since the beginning of the season.

But when the last four weeks have been a perpetual search for not only answers, but also your game overall, Tuesday night might have offered a glimmer of hope and some signs that better days are, perhaps, ahead.

Of course, falling behind 44 seconds into the game and eventually finding themselves three goals in arrears didn’t provide much optimism from the nearly 14,000 fans in attendance.

In fact, none of them would be faulted if there were a collective eye-roll and a here-we-go-agai

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