Jack Drury also scored, and Artturi Lehkonen had an assist in his return from an upper-body injury for the Avalanche (48-13-10), who went undefeated on a four-game road trip. Mackenzie Blackwood made 22 saves.<\/p>\n
Lehkonen missed 11 games after sustaining the injury in first period of a 4-2 win at the Los Angeles Kings on March 2.<\/p>\n
Colorado extended its first-place lead in the Central Division to nine points over the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n
Mark Scheifele scored two goals, and Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves
for the Jets (30-30-12), who had won two in a row, but have lost four of six (2-2-2).<\/p>\n
Winnipeg remained five points behind the Nashville Predators for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Scheifele gave the Jets a 1-0 lead at 9:55 of the first period. After Josh Morrissey stopped a clearing attempt at the Colorado blue line, he quickly gave it to Kyle Connor, who then fed Scheifele a backhand from the slot for a one-timer from below the left dot.<\/p>\n
Jack Drury tied it 1-1 at 17:40, grabbing the rebound from Sam Malinski\u2019s point shot and out-muscling Winnipeg defenseman Elias Salomonsson so he could jam it in under Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon\u2019s power-play goal 13 seconds into the third period put Colorado ahead 2-1, knocking in a rebound that sat behind Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon scored again to push it to 3-1 at 3:55 off a redirect of Artturi Lehkonen\u2019s saucer pass on a 2-on-1. Winnipeg challenged the play for goaltender interference, but the goal was upheld following video review.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL with 48 goals this season.<\/p>\n
Scheifele cut it to 3-2 at 9:39 with his 34th goal this season, finishing a quick passing play from Gabriel Vilardi and Cole Perfetti with a redirect at the edge of the crease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Drury also scored, and Artturi Lehkonen had an assist in his return from an upper-body injury for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-563545","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\/563545","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=563545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}