{"id":539751,"date":"2026-03-16T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:37:12","slug":"fleury-has-goal-assist-jets-hang-on-to-end-blues-7-game-point-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539751\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleury has goal, assist, Jets hang on to end Blues\u2019 7-game point streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Comrie<\/a> made 29 saves, and Morgan Barron<\/a>\u00a0had two assists for the Jets (28-28-10), who have points in eight of 10 games (6-2-2) since returning from the break for the 2026 Winter Olympics, including a 3-1 win here against the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday. It was Comrie\u2019s first game since Feb. 25; he is 5-0-0 in his past five starts with a 1.39 goals-against average and .946 save percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be tough sometimes because you go a long time without playing,\u201d Comrie said. \u2026 \u201c(Starting goalie Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>) is pretty good; I was going to say, he won the Hart Trophy last year. (Five straight wins) feels good. Once again, I just try and do my job once my name gets called, just trying to be ready whenever I get my chance. And I feel good right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dalibor Dvorsky<\/a> and Dylan Holloway<\/a> scored for the Blues (27-30-10), who were 6-0-1 in their previous seven. Jordan Binnington<\/a>\u00a0made 13 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Winnipeg was better than us at the net-fronts, which is an area where offensively we haven’t gone,\u201d St. Louis coach Jim Montgomery said. \u201cWe don’t consistently screen goalies, and it’s a big reason why we haven’t scored as much as we were expecting this year. And then defensively, you can’t give up two breakaways to their two best players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleury gave Winnipeg a 1-0 lead at 2:31 of the first period, finishing a quick passing play from the left face-off dot on the rush with Barron and Brad Lambert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jets defenseman was limited to 39 games in 2024-25 due to injury, and Sunday was just his 25th game this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all the injuries that have happened to (Fleury), and all the injuries on our defense, we have needed him now,\u201d Winnipeg coach Scott Arniel said. \u201cHe has been playing really well. He is a great skater and he has great mobility, and he has filled in real well for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to see him score, especially early on \u2026 that was a great shot and it looked like he\u2019d been doing that his whole career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Scheifele<\/a> made it 2-0 at 7:51, stealing the puck in his own zone and scoring on a breakaway with a backhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Comrie made 29 saves, and Morgan Barron\u00a0had two assists for the Jets (28-28-10), who have points in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-539751","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\/539751","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=539751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}