Jets coach Bowness 'disgusted' after ugly season-ending loss to Golden Knights in Game 5

Jets coach Rick Bowness stepped on the dais in the T-Mobile Arena media room and declared his post-game availability was going to be short and sweet.

He wasn't kidding.

Still seething after a 4-1 loss to Vegas that eliminated Winnipeg in five games, Bowness sounded off on his club's effort in a 65-second diatribe.

"I'm so disappointed and disgusted right now," Bowness said.

The veteran coach didn't name names but didn't mince words.

"There has to be pride," he said. "You have to be able to push back when things aren't going your way. We had no pushback. Their better players were so much better than ours tonight. They deserved to win.

"They were the better team in the regular season, they were the better team in this series."

Instead of coming out with a desperate brand of hockey in an elimination game, the Jets were listless and never really got going.

Vegas controlled play for most of the first period as Winnipeg was held without a shot for the first eight minutes.

Mark Stone, William Karlsson and Stephenson all scored in an eight-minute span in the second period and the Golden Knights were on their way.

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Kyle Connor scored the lone goal for Winnipeg.

"It's not where we envisioned we'd be," said Jets forward Adam Lowry. "It's not where we want to be."

Nikolaj Ehlers made his series debut for the Jets after missing over two weeks with an upper-body injury. Mark Scheifele (upper body) and Josh Morrissey (lower body) sat out.