{"id":532964,"date":"2026-03-13T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:47:11","slug":"playoff-hopes-grow-dimmer-as-winnipeg-jets-lose-2nd-straight-on-home-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532964\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff hopes grow dimmer, as Winnipeg Jets lose 2nd straight on home ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist to lead the New York Rangers to a 6-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Noah Laba, with an empty-net goal, Adam Edstrom, Gabe Perreault, Tye Kartye and Adam Fox also scored for New York (27-30-8). Igor Shersterkin stopped 24 shots.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Vilardi, Kyle Connor and Isak Rosen replied for Winnipeg (26-28-10). Connor Hellebuyck made 11 saves before 13,763 fans at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n

The Jets are now 3-2 on their current eight-game homestand.<\/p>\n

The Rangers scored goals 4:11 apart in the third period to take a 4-3 lead. Adam Edstrom beat Hellebuyck from in front at 11:08.<\/p>\n

Perreault gave New York a 4-3 lead when he got to the puck in front of the crease and shovelled it past Hellebuyck at 6:57.<\/p>\n

Vilardi made it 3-3 about three minutes after New York had taken the lead. He pounced on an Adam Lowry rebound, then backhanded the puck past Shesterkin.<\/p>\n

New York took a 3-2 lead early in the third. Kartye deflected a pass from Matthew Robertson past Hellebuyck just 1:15 into the frame.<\/p>\n

\"AWinnipeg’s Kyle Connor beats New York goaltender Igor Shesterkin with his 29th goal of the year, tying the score at 2-2 late in the second period Thursday night. The visiting Rangers outscored the Jets 4-1 in the final period to skate away with a 6-3 victory. (John Woods\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Connor had tied the score 2-2 late in the second on a brilliant individual effort. He took a pass from Mark Schiefele, then beat Fox and deked Shesterkin before lifting the puck over the Rangers netminder for his 29th goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Lafreniere had given New York a 2-1 lead when he deflected a point shot from Will Borgen past Hellebuyck. It was his sixth goal in his past five games and ninth in 10 outings.<\/p>\n

Recently acquired forward Rosen tied it 1-1 early in the second with his first goal as a Jet. Rosen deflected a shot from the point by defenceman Jacob Bryson \u2014 another trade-deadline acquisition \u2014 past Shesterkin.<\/p>\n

The Rangers opened the scoring just 68 seconds into the game. Only nine seconds after Winnipeg’s Gabe Vilardi took a hooking penalty, Fox blasted a slapshot from the blueline that beat Hellebuyck over his right shoulder.<\/p>\n

Shesterkin stopped Jonathan Toews on a breakaway about two minutes after the opening goal.<\/p>\n

It was the 700th NHL career game for Jets defenceman Dylan DeMelo.<\/p>\n

It was the 500th game for New York defenceman Vladislav Gavrikov.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Jets: They kept rebounding after the Rangers took one-goal leads but failed to cover players in front and paid the price.<\/p>\n

Rangers: They led 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 as every time Winnipeg tied the score, New York retook the lead, taking advantage of getting players in front of the net.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Edstrom sunk Winnipeg’s dwindling playoff hopes when he gave New York a 5-3 lead at 11:08 of the third period.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

The Rangers scored five goals on only 16 shots.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Jets: Host the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Rangers: Face the Wild in Minnesota on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-532964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532964","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=532964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}