Parental guidance advised: DeMelo's illness mirrored Jets' play in St. Louis

Winnipeg Jets defenceman Dylan DeMelo took some time on Tuesday to describe just how sick one has to be to miss a playoff game. “Pretty sick,” DeMelo said. “I couldn’t keep anything down, couldn’t keep anything in.

That’s the PG version of what I’ll give you. It floored me for a few days..



. I’m feeling good now.” The 31-year-old missed Game 3 in St.

Louis, holed up in his hotel room mustering what energy he had to scream at the TV when overtime in the Toronto-Ottawa game delayed the broadcast switch to the Jets-Blues. “I was like, oh come on here. Somebody score so we can get it going,” he said.

“I got through a period and a half...

it was super late and went right to bed. As much as I wanted to watch, I wasn’t doing any help, watching and staying up late. So I went to bed and got as much sleep as I could.

” DeMelo didn’t miss much, the Blues running up a 7-2 rout. He’d return for Game 4, but not before a couple days of doing his best to keep whatever he had from spreading to teammates. “I was treating it like I was in isolation.

I didn’t leave my room. I would bring what I could eat to the room. That room might be off limits for a little bit for the next people who are coming in there.

“You just try to stay away, and hopefully everyone’s in the clear.” Health-wise, they seem to be, so far. But another decisive loss in Game 4, this time 5-1, had the Jets feeling less than 100 percent as they returned home.

Two days has helped them re-set their temperature going into Wednesday’s Game 5. “It’s what we’ve talked about, what we’ve stressed – learn from it, move on and get ready for the next one,” forward Kyle Connor said. “We’ve got a great opportunity here in front of us.

It’s a best-of-three series, two at home.” -Friesen.