Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist to lead the\u00a0Winnipeg\u00a0Jets to a 3-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche at Canada Life Centre Saturday.<\/p>\n
The goal gave Connor his eighth 30-goal campaign, passing Ilya Kovalchuk for the most in Jets\/Thrashers franchise history.<\/p>\n
Alex Iafallo and Cole Perfetti, with an empty-netter, also scored for the Jets (27-28-10), who rebounded from back-to-back regulation losses to salvage a critical two points in their pursuit of a playoff spot. Mark Scheifele picked up two assists, including his 51st to set a new personal single-season record for helpers.<\/p>\n
Connor Hellebuyck lost his shutout bid late in the third but put forth a solid 28-save performance for the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Martin Necas broke the shutout at 18:44 of the third period with his 31st goal for the Avalanche (44-12-9), who saw their season-high six-game road winning streak snapped. Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar assisted on the play.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Blackwood made 15 saves in the loss for the Avalanche.<\/p>\n
Avalanche defenceman Brent Burns played in his 990th consecutive NHL game, surpassing Keith Yandle for the second-longest Iron Man streak in league history. Phil Kessel has the longest streak, at 1,064 consecutive games.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Jets:\u00a0Winnipeg\u00a0moved back into the win column to salvage a shot at a playoff spot, backed by a strong defensive effort against an Avalanche attack that entered the day leading the NHL with 3.80 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Necas extended his goal streak to three games. He has now found the back of the net in each of Colorado\u2019s last six road games.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Connor broke a scoreless deadlock at 2:05 of the second period, firing home his 30th goal of the year to ignite the\u00a0Winnipeg\u00a0offence and set a new franchise benchmark.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Connor has reached the 30-goal mark in every season of his nine-year NHL career except for the 56-game COVID-19 shortened campaign.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Jets: Host the St. Louis Blues on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist to lead the\u00a0Winnipeg\u00a0Jets to a 3-1 win over the Colorado…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-538655","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\/538655","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=538655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}