Tyler Myers and Toby Enstrom get along quite well, so you can save the odd couple references for someone else.

The two Winnipeg Jets defencemen share little in the way of physical similarity other than they are humans who both play professional hockey — Enstrom the shortest Jet at 5-foot-10 and Myers the towering 6-foot-8 rearguard who’s tall enough to post up in the NBA let alone anchor a professional hockey blue-line.

And their respective built-in styles of play make them an unlikely combo as well, both puck-moving defencemen neither shy nor sluggish when it comes to jumping up into the action to spark the offence.

Yet the duo has found a comfortable level of chemistry together these past few weeks as a top-six pairing on the Jets blue-line.

Finding that old-married-couple ease with one another was the area of biggest growth for the pairing, according to head coach Paul Maurice.

“Right from Tyler’s first game here last year those two were a fit,” said Maurice, whose team has another day off Wednesday before a home game against Columbus kicks off a back-to-back nights scenario that wraps up Friday in Chicago. “I think just having enough games in the league they just figured each other out very, very quickly.”

Maurice seemed to intimate that it was Enstrom, the nine-year Jet, who was inclined to do more of the adjusting.

“I think Toby probably was the more patient of the two in terms of jumping into plays because Tyler’s so active,” he said. “With Toby now just having spent a little more time together is starting to find some places where he can do it, where he can jump in. And that makes them very dangerous and we need Toby to do that because he has that skill set.”

Myers said Enstrom’s style of play — or perhaps more accurately his head for the game — complements what Myers likes to do.

“He moves so well and sees the ice so well that he makes a lot of real good passes that allow me to jump into holes and join the play,” Myers said. “We’re always looking if there’s something we could’ve done differently on a play we didn’t like or thought was a little off. We’re communicating well and I think that’s been the biggest thing.”

And he’s heard the jokes before about towering over teammates.

“I got that with (5-foot-5 Nathan) Gerbe and (5-foot-9 Tyler) Ennis in Buffalo, and now it happens to be my D partner here in Winnipeg,” he said.

Myers and Enstrom may not be finishing each other’s sentences, but they are working on the steady balancing act of taking care of things at home in your own end, and getting out and letting loose.

“The easiest way to shut guys down as a five-man unit on the ice is to go on the attack,” Myers said. “But I think over the past 10 games, especially our group, has really taken the defence-first mindset. I think it’s really helped our group and we just need to keep getting better at that.”

As far as the team’s overall defensive play, Maurice said there wasn’t much in the way of evidence to suggest the team is playing better in front one goalie — Michael Hutchinson or Connor Hellebuyck — over the other.

“When you look at certain kinds of scoring chances, Connor’s really had a spectrum of teams,” Maurice said. “Not so much the Minnesota team, but the Minnesota game there was 15 shots in total. And then Toronto put up quite a bit more. But the last two games were played against really skilled teams and we actually probably gave up more in the Washington game (a win) than we did in the Chicago game (a loss).”

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