Game Day: Winnipeg Jets vs. St. Louis Blues
Winnipeg grabbed a pair of goals in the middle frame on Saturday. Kyle Connor opened the scoring with his 30th, joining Jets legend Dale Hawerchuk as the only players with eight 30-goal campaigns in Jets history, before Alex Iafallo added his 11th to make it 2-0. Winnipeg held that lead for most of the game until Colorado got some life with just over a minute to go in the third period on Martin Necas’ 31st. Luckily for the Jets, it didn’t end up mattering, as Cole Perfetti iced the game with an empty-netter shortly after for his ninth, snapping Winnipeg’s two-game losing skid. The Jets improved to 27-28-10, while Connor Hellebuyck was lights out with 28 saves.
“Yeah, it was great. You know, the details were there. We had a lot of jump. We played together,” said Hellebuyck on his club’s performance Saturday. “Very little mistakes. And, you know what, some help from DeMelo blocking some goal-line shots. So, yeah, we had it all.”
Winnipeg and St. Louis are tied with 64 points, with both clubs sitting six points back of WC2.
It’s the second-last meeting of the season between the two clubs, who battled through a seven-game series in last year’s playoffs. The season series is tied 1-1 after St. Louis took the first meeting 1-0 on Dec. 17 and Winnipeg responded with a 3-1 win on Jan. 20. The final meeting of the season will be in Missouri on April 9.
Connor – Scheifele – Iafallo
Perfetti – Lowry – Vilardi
Nyquist – Toews – Rosen
Koepke – Barron – Lambert
Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Salomonsson
Fleury – Bryson
Comrie
Hellebuyck
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Puck drop is at 2:00 p.m. CT on TSN3.