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OTTAWA -- Given all their challenges in trying to improve, this may not have been a high-priority issue but it's not out of character.

The Winnipeg Jets and the Atlanta Thrashers before them have almost always had problems killing penalties.

So this year's start by the Jets, ranked at the bottom of the 30-team NHL in that category with a success rate of just 63.6 per cent (21 for 33) is again in the dreadful range. But it's the neighbourhood in which the team has resided for most of its 12 previous seasons.

Only once in that time has the franchise ever cracked the top 10 in NHL penalty killing, and in 10 of the 12 years, including last season's move to Winnipeg, the team was ranked 23rd or worse.

BadHidden Mother Brewery will begin renovating a North Washington Street building into a Spokane taphouse, according to permits issued by the city.

The Liberty Lake-based beer making company will turn the former Fleet Feet Sports store, 1311 N. Washinton St., into a 15-barrel brewhouse. The work is valued at $250,000.

The brewery was started by Mike Detar a year ago, and has since grown in popularity. It focuses on barrel-aged wild ales, and Detar plans to increase production quickly at the new site.

The brewery won both gold and silver medals in the experimental category at the 2018 Washington Beer Awards, for its Pine Tree Peppercorn Saison and Morel Mushroom Red.

The project’s general contractor is Yost Gallagher Construction, of Spokane. It was designed by Russell Page Architects, also of Spokane.