{"id":539493,"date":"2026-03-16T05:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539493\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:36:15","slug":"eric-comrie-backstops-the-winnipeg-jets-to-3-2-win-over-the-blues-to-complete-weekend-sweep-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539493\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Comrie backstops the Winnipeg Jets to 3-2 win over the Blues to complete weekend sweep \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets sweep their back-to-back set this weekend with today\u2019s 3-2 win over the Blues. Eric Comrie was excellent making 29 saves on 31 shots. Mark Scheifele &amp; Kyle Connor get their 31st while Haydn Fleury got his first ever with Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats click here to see the results from the game via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalstattrick.com\/game.php?season=20252026&amp;game=21057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Natural Stat Trick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notable:<\/p>\n<p>While it took awhile for Haydn Fleury to score <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2033260225218941071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his first goal<\/a> as a member of the Jets, but how random is the fact that it comes against the team and goalie that he scored his last goal (back on March 13th, 2023) against.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Scheifele celebrated his 33rd birthday with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2033262210252968159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his 31st goal of the season<\/a> to make it a 2-0 lead for the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Even after a few games I am still not used to seeing a 27 in a Jets jerseys executing what Dennis Beyak would call \u201ctight turns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Connor obviously didn\u2019t want Scheifele to be alone atop the goal scoring for Winnipeg as he tied him with 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICdave\/status\/2033291335189323888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scoring an absolute beauty on the breakaway<\/a> after a great pass by Morgan Barron who set a new career high for points with 22. It also gave Connor 62 game-winning goals which puts him three back of Scheifele for the all-time team lead.<\/p>\n<p>Five straight wins for Eric Comrie\u00a0who set a new career high for games played in a season with 21 and a new career high for wins with his 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Multi Point Game:<\/p>\n<p>Haydn Fleury 1G 1A<br \/>Morgan Barron 2A<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Coach availability:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Illegal Curve Post-Game Show:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Up next:<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are off tomorrow. Start your day with the Morning Papers which will go live at 7 AM CST tomorrow on <a href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">illegalcurve.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets sweep their back-to-back set this weekend with today\u2019s 3-2 win over the Blues. Eric Comrie was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-539493","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\/539493","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=539493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}