{"id":585516,"date":"2026-04-06T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585516\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:08:10","slug":"connor-scores-twice-as-the-jets-beat-the-blue-jackets-2-1-to-stay-in-the-playoff-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585516\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor scores twice as the\u00a0Jets\u00a0beat the Blue Jackets 2-1 to stay in the playoff hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg\u00a0Jets\u00a0overcame an early deficit to beat the Columbus 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping their playoff hopes alive and sending the Blue Jackets to their sixth straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg moved to 78 points, a point out of the final wild-card spot in the crowded Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Connor tied it with 1:46 left in the second period, and scored the winner with 9:02 left in the third. He has 36 goals this season. Mark Scheifele had his 59th and 60th assists, and Connor Hellebuyck made 15 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Provorov scored for Columbus, which has lost four straight at home and remains outside the Eastern Conference wild-card picture. Jet Greaves stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Provorov scored on Columbus\u2019 first shot 1:17 into the game. It was the Blue Jackets\u2019 57th goal by a defenseman this season, a franchise record.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus then went more than 25 minutes without another shot as Winnipeg took control.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host Seattle on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: At Detroit on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg\u00a0Jets\u00a0overcame an early deficit to beat the Columbus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-585516","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\/585516","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=585516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}