Kyle Connor scored twice to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena. Mark Scheifele had two assists for the Jets who closed out their four-game road trip with a 3-1 record. It marked the 59th and 60th occasions this season that Scheifele and Connor combined on a goal, no other duo in the NHL has factored in on more goals together this season. Winnipeg will return home and will host the Seattle Kraken on Monday night.<\/p>\n
LOCKING IT DOWN<\/p>\n
Despite the fact the Jets gave up the game\u2019s first goal on the first shot\u00a0pf the game to Ivan Provorov at 1:17 of the opening frame, they defended well afterwards. The Jets didn\u2019t allow a shot on goal by the Blue Jackets for over 25 minutes during a stretch from the first period until the near the end of the second. In the end the Jets held Columbus to just 16 shots on the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were coming hard (in the first), and they were really aggressive, and I just it felt like we really kind of got back to playing fast. We got out of our zone quick, and really, in the second period, did a fantastic job of moving it north in a hurry,\u201d said head coach Scott\u00a0Arniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen obviously holding on to pucks once we got in the zone. Just, that was a real solid game.\u201d<\/p>\n
KC WONT BE DENIED<\/p>\n
After five scoring chances Thursday in Dallas, Kyle Connor made sure he wouldn\u2019t be shut down for a second straight game with 1:46 left in the second period. Connor went to the front of the net and received a perfect pass from Mark Scheifele and beat Jet Greaves for his 35th of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Connor scored twice to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-584245","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\/584245","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=584245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}