Third time’s the attraction.
The Winnipeg Jets led three separate instances en path to a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames in entrance of 14,130 followers on the Canada Life Centre.
Brenden Dillon, Josh Morrissey and Sam Gagner scored for the Jets, who improved to 24-13-1 on the season.
Connor Hellebuyck had 32 rebounds within the win as Calgary outshot Winnipeg 34-25.
The sport began out humorous, with no high quality possibilities till Milan Lucic skated by means of the Jets protection and fired huge on a breakaway within the remaining minute of the primary interval.
Winnipeg opened the scoring at 14:50 of the second interval, when Dylan DeMelo’s level shot was headed in by Brenden Dillon. Mark Scheifele earned the opposite help on Dillon’s first purpose of the season.
Calgary tied the sport 1-1 within the remaining minute of the second. Nikita Zadorov took a middle cross and buried it previous Hellebuyck at 19:01.
Kyle Connor got here near breaking the impasse halfway by means of the third interval, however missed simply huge on the brief aspect after a Pierre-Luc Dubois cross discovered the again of the online.
The Jets took a 2-1 lead with a superbly positioned shot by Josh Morrissey. Morrissey minimize in from the purpose and Kyle Connor discovered him with an ideal bumper cross from the slot. Pierre-Luc Dubois was credited with the secondary help.
The assists lengthen each Connor and Dubois’ scoring streaks to 4 – Connor has one purpose and 5 assists throughout this present run whereas Dubois has two objectives and two assists.
Calgary tied the sport 2-2 quickly after when Mikael Backlund slid the puck previous Connor Hellebuyck five-hole. Andrew Mangiapane earned the lone helper.
At 14:20 of the third, Sam Gagner gave the Jets their third lead of the sport. The veteran ahead redirected a Ville Heinola level shot previous Jacob Markstrom on Winnipeg’s twenty first shot of the night time, whereas Dylan Samberg earned the additional helper.
The Flames had Markstrom pulled for an additional attacker, however Winnipeg closed it down defensively with Adam Lowry making a kick save shot block within the dying seconds.
The Jets subsequent sport is Friday night time once they host the Tampa Bay Lightning. Pregame present begins at 5pm on 680 CJOB with the puck dropping simply after 7pm
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