{"id":347011,"date":"2025-12-14T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347011\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:14:11","slug":"hellebuyck-makes-24-saves-in-return-from-knee-injury-jets-top-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellebuyck makes 24 saves in return from knee injury, Jets top Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Vilardi<\/a> scored two goals, and Alex Iafallo<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Jets (15-15-1), who had lost three straight. Mark Scheifele<\/a>, Kyle Connor<\/a>, Josh Morrissey<\/a> and Adam Lowry<\/a> each had two assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew getting Hellebuyck back for their group was going to be a jolt of energy,\u201d Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. \u201cAnd then you bring into the desperate group that you’re going to face because you know how things have been going for them. So I’m sure everything coming out of their camp is, you know, our season’s on the line, desperation, all those types of (things) — so you knew you were going to get their absolute best effort tonight. So, not good enough from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun<\/a> scored and Logan Thompson<\/a> made 30 saves for the Capitals (18-10-4), who lost in regulation for the first time in 10 games (7-1-2).<\/p>\n

\u201cNot much went well tonight,\u201d Chychrun said. \u201cAll areas of our game, I think. Just lack of execution with the puck. For some reason it just seemed like there were plays to be made and we were either late making a play or just making the wrong one. And it just led to a lot of time in the D-zone. It just wasn’t our best night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winnipeg forward Nino Niederreiter<\/a> skated in his 1,000th NHL game, becoming the first Switzerland-born player to achieve that milestone. He was plus-1 in 15:45 of ice time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody had a maybe a little extra step for me and wanted to win that game also for me, to make it a special night. And they sure did,\u201d he said. \u201cThey played unbelievable right from the get-go. I think we came out and want to make sure we put on a good show tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals, and Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist for the Jets (15-15-1),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-347011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}