After a scoreless second period, Stanley beat Gibson five-hole at 7:04 of the third period with a wrist shot from the left circle.<\/p>\n
Jets forward Gustav Nyquist<\/a> came close to tying the game in the final moments against his former team. With 1:38 remaining and Hellebuyck on the bench, he found himself with the puck about 15 feet from the net. He aimed for the left side of the net, but Gibson turned the shot off the post.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just doing my job,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cI was able to read it and get into position. It hit me, but sometimes you need a little luck.\u201d<\/p>\n Nyquist had a similar chance late in the second period, but Gibson deflected his shot off the crossbar.<\/p>\n \u201cWe created a lot of good chances tonight, but we have to start putting them away,\u201d Jets coach Scott Arniel said. \u201cWe\u2019ve reached the point where we have to play a perfect game to end this. We need our goalie to steal one on the same night we finish our chances.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: The game was the first Patrick Kane<\/a> and Jonathan Toews<\/a> played against each other in the NHL after leading the Chicago Blackhawks to Stanley Cup championships in 2010, 2013 and 2015. \u2026 The Jets play the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Thursday — the first New Year\u2019s Eve\/New Year\u2019s Day back-to-back in franchise history. The Red Wings are also doing it — they travel to Pittsburgh for a road game against the Penguins on Thursday. \u2026 Morrissey played his 700th NHL game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a scoreless second period, Stanley beat Gibson five-hole at 7:04 of the third period with a wrist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-380720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}