{"id":540193,"date":"2026-03-16T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540193\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:44:09","slug":"winnipeg-jets-beat-the-colroado-avalanche-3-1-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540193\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets beat the Colroado Avalanche 3-1 on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) \u2014 Kyle Connor reached 30 goals for a franchise-record eighth time and added an assist, Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Connor broke a tie with Ilya Kovalchuk for the most 30-goal seasons in Thrashers\/Jets history. 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 when he had 26.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Iafallo and Cole Perfetti, with an empty-netter, also scored for the Jets. Mark Scheifele had to two assists for push his season total to 51, one more than his previous best.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Necas ended Hellebuyck&#8217;s shutout bid with 1:16 left.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Blackwood made 15 saves for the Avalanche. They had won six in a row on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche defenseman Brent Burns played in his 990th consecutive NHL game, surpassing Keith Yandle for the second-longest streak in league history. Phil Kessel is the leader at 1,064.<\/p>\n<p>    Up next<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: Host Pittsburgh on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host St. Louis on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) \u2014 Kyle Connor reached 30 goals for a franchise-record eighth time and added an assist,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[210980,210981,210982,210983,210984,49,45339,48,758,210985,210986,210987,22073],"class_list":["post-540193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-avalanche-stanley-cup-final","tag-avs","tag-avs-game-recaps","tag-avs-scores","tag-avs-stanley-cup","tag-ca","tag-cale-makar","tag-canada","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-colorado-avalanche-stanley-cup","tag-colorado-avs","tag-denver7-colorado-avalanche","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540193","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=540193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}