The Winnipeg Jets stay undefeated with a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues Tuesday night. They extend their winning streak to six and remain the league’s only team with no regulation losses. The Blues fall to a record of 4-3-0 despite a hard fought effort.
The Jets kicked off the game with the Jets second line of Cole Perfetti, Vladislav Namestnikov and Nikolaj Ehlers, who made their presence felt early with two early scoring chances in the first three minutes. Jets star defenceman Josh Morrissey jumped into the offence on a play minutes after and was caught off guard with the Blues intercepting the puck and turning the other way for an odd man rush and subtly swung the momentum towards their direction.
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Minutes later, the Blues used the momentum to capitalize with star forward Robert Thomas making a great play by recognizing the Jets were outnumbered infront of the net two to one. Thomas took advantage and put a low shot on net to create a perfect redirect to linemate Brandon Saad alone in front which he shots past netminder Connor Hellebuyck for the game’s first goal.
The Jets ended the first period with physical play to show they weren’t going to allow another goal easily and that was highlighted by captain Adam Lowry hammering Blues forward Dylan Holloway just minutes after the goal.
Morrissey took the first penalty of the game in the closing minutes of the period when Blues forwards Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich performed a quick give and go that saw Kyrou in tight in front of the net and forced Morrissey’s hand to prevent a clean shot and earned him a hooking penalty that carried over into the second period.
The next period started with the Jets killing off the penalty and in the process generating a sizeable amount of momentum back their way and led to a big three goal period. It was all started with Blues captain Brayden Schenn holding onto Morrissey too long on a play coming around the Jets net and put them on the power play.
The Jets second power play unit got the job done with defenceman Neal Pionk spotting an open Jet in Nino Niederreiter, who redirects a Pionk shot to the opposite side of the net and past Blues netminder Jordan Binnington for the game-tying goal.
The Blues applied pressure back onto the Jets for a significant amount of time. However, the Jets battled through it and got the momentum back with a clean breakout that saw Ehlers and Perfetti skate into the Blues end and create an…