{"id":951583,"date":"2026-10-30T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951583\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:38:09","slug":"jets-rally-but-fall-to-lightning-for-seventh-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951583\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets rally but fall to Lightning for seventh straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Pontus Holmberg set a career high with four points on a goal and three assists, Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli each had a goal and two assists, and the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> remain unbeaten at home with a 6-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Brayden Point, John Carlson and Conor Geekie all scored for Tampa Bay. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 17 shots.<\/p>\n

The Lightning improved to 6-0 at home to tie a franchise record to start a season.<\/p>\n

Neil Pionk, playing his 600th game, scored twice. Kyle Connor and Dylan Samberg also scored for the Jets and Mark Scheifele had three assists.<\/p>\n

Stuart Skinner allowed five goals on 21 shots before being replaced by Nico Daws to start the third period. Daws finished with nine saves in his Winnipeg debut.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg is winless (0-5-2) in the past seven games, including three consecutive regulation losses since trading goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to New Jersey.<\/p>\n

The Jets’ last victory came on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

“That’s pretty frustrating,” head coach Scott Arniel said. “We can’t have those brain cramps, we can’t have those situations where you miss an assignment.”<\/p>\n

After Point and Pionk traded goals in the first period, Tampa Bay pulled away in the second period with four goals, including three in the final 4:04.<\/p>\n

Geekie backhanded in a pass from Dominic James at 9:43 before Cirelli scored a power-play goal at 15:56, getting his stick on a cross-crease pass from Holmberg. Carlson made it 4-1 at 18:07 as he one-timed Holmberg’s pass from the left faceoff dot. Hagel finished off the period with a tap-in from Cirelli at the back post with 56 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg scored two goals less than two minutes apart in the third to cut into the lead. Perfetti fed Samberg for a one-handed redirect at 7:00 while Pionk scored his second at 8:50, with Dawson Mercer registering his first point with the Jets on the play. Connor scored with 2:49 left to make it a one-goal game.<\/p>\n

Holmberg added an empty-net goal with 1:33 left.<\/p>\n

“Yeah I loved the way we played in the third but that’s how you have to play for 60 minutes,” Arniel said. “If you want to be a team that’s going to be considered one of the top teams, you have to play like that every night.”<\/p>\n

Jets: At Florida Panthers on Friday.<\/p>\n

Lightning: At Nashville on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Pontus Holmberg set a career high with four points on a goal and three assists,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-951583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951583","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=951583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}