'Literally a whiteout on the plane': Jets fans cheer for team during flight

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: May 05, 2025 4:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The Winnipeg Jets lifted thousands of fans disconnected of their seats astatine the Canada Life Centre this weekend, but fewer could accidental they were elevated by Sunday night's win as overmuch arsenic a fewer Winnipeggers who got to spot it portion they were virtually up successful the air

A level afloat of passengers headed to Winnipeg was flying determination implicit Saskatchewan erstwhile the Jets defeated the St. Louis Blues successful the winner-take-all crippled to get into Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Rishona Hyman said she and the U16 h2o polo squad she was chaperoning during contention successful Calgary had conscionable boarded the level erstwhile the Jets tied up the people with 3 seconds remaining in regularisation time during Game 7.

"People were going brainsick successful the Calgary airdrome earlier we adjacent got on the gate," she said Monday. "Then we committee the plane, and I deliberation it was the archetypal clip radical were like … 'Can we stay? We privation to decorativeness the game.'"

Hyman said arsenic soon arsenic the passengers got connected committee the plane, everyone started scrambling to get their devices connected to the plane's Wi-Fi to stream the game.

"The aviator really came connected and said, 'Okay I'm not going to really speech due to the fact that you don't privation to perceive maine talk. We're each going to cheer for the Jets. Have a large flight,'" she said. 

She said a antheral who was sitting astatine the beforehand held up his iPad truthful the full formation could see.

Hyman said it was "literally a whiteout connected the plane," with passengers waving barf bags alternatively of handkerchiefs and chanting "Go Jets Go" arsenic the crippled went on.

They were mid-air erstwhile Jets captain Adam Lowry scored the game-winning extremity successful treble overtime.

"The formation attendants flashed the lights connected and off.… Everyone's going crazy," Hyman said.

"Then the h2o polo squad that I was traveling with started singing the, you know, 'be my girl' song they sing astatine the Jets arena.… It couldn't person been better."

The Jets volition look the Dallas Stars successful the 2nd circular of the playoffs starting Wednesday. Hyman said she's excited, but that determination was nary amended spot to beryllium to spot the squad win.

"It was genuinely Canadian, genuinely Winnipeg," she said. "Everyone was into it. Everyone was cheering and screaming and, like, truthful excited. The excitement was palpable."