It wasn’t youth. It wasn’t inexperience. It wasn’t Dustin Byfuglien or cap constraints or the alarming number of skaters Winnipeg has on the injured reserve.



Three strides and 10 feet cost the Winnipeg Jets two points on Sunday.



When Brandon Montour’s neutral zone pass deflected off Zemgus Girgensons and then Nathan Beaulieu onto Kyle Okposo’s stick, the Sabres were gifted a two-on-one. That was a bad bounce.



When Okposo took that fortuitous bounce toward the net, he had Beaulieu and Mark Scheifele on his tail. Okposo took two strides and then glided, focusing his energy on stickhandling and setting up his shot. Beaulieu took three strides and then glided, focusing on Girgensons in the slot — a man who had no bearing on the play. Scheifele took three strides toward Okposo and then stopped skating, choosing to reach out toward Okposo with one ineffectual arm as he scored the game-winning goal.



That was a bad...