Jets down Utah 5-2 Featured

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Cole Perfetti scored three goals and Connor Hellebuyck made 17 saves as the Winnipeg Jets rolled the Utah Hockey Club 5-2 Friday night.

Nikolaj Ehlers had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg.

David Gustafsson also scored for the Jets, who won their second game in a row.

Dylan DeMelo had a pair of assists.

Winnipeg moved to 33-14-3 on the season.

Nick Schmaltz and Barrett Hayton scored for Utah.

Clayton Keller had a pair of assists for the Hockey Club.

Connor Ingram turned aside 24 shots for Utah, who dropped to 21-20-7.

The Jets got on the board late in the first period with a power play marker when Cole Perfetti converted a cross ice pass Nikolaj Ehlers pass and fired the disc just inside the post.

The goal was his 8th of the season and snapped a 15 game scoring drought.

Nick Schmaltz tied it up on the power play 1:13 into the second when he redirected a Michael Kesselring shot from the top of the faceoff circle past Hellebuyck to make it 1-1.

David Gustafsson gave Winnipeg the lead 8:48 into the second when a Dylan DeMelo shoot in found Gustafsson in front of an abandoned Utah net alone with the puck.

The puck bounced off the end boards and found Connor Ingram in no man's land as the disc took a favorable bounce.

Gustafsson fired the disc into the open goal to score his 1st of the season.

Barrett Hayton scored 1:19 into the third to knot the contest at 2 when John Marino hit him with a crisp pass at the top of the right faceoff circle.

Hayton made no mistake, beating Hellebuyck blocker side with a wrister to score his 12th goal of the season.

Cole Perfetti broke the tie 5:51 into the third when Vladislav Namestnikov slid him the disc in front of the net and he fired it into a wide open net.

The goal was his 9th of the season.

Nikolaj Ehlers poked the puck away from Utah defenceman Michael Kesselring at the Winnipeg blue line before breaking in alone on Ingram and flipping a backhand past him at 12:16 to make it 4-2 Jets. Winnipeg hosts Calgary Sunday while Utah visits Ottawa.

SHOTS-UTAH 19 WINNIPEG 29

Philip Paul-Martin

A well rounded journalist with experience in both print and broadcast mediums, Philip has written news stories with impact, broken national news while at the CBC, anchored radio news and hosted talk show radio. His coverage includes feature writing, game stories and more in-depth pieces during the off-season as well as writing about the National Hockey League and the Winnipeg Jets. He calls Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada home.