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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Ivan Barbashev's goal 3:47 into overtime lifted the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets Thursday night.

A bad line change by Winnipeg proved costly as Hadyn Fluery's attempted pass to Vladislav Namestnikov, who was changing, was picked off along the boards by Shea Theodore, who moved in on a 2-on-1 before dishing to Barbashev who fired the disc past a shocked Hellebuyck.

Keegan Kolesar and Victor Olofsson also scored for the Golden Knights, who kicked off a three-game road trip with a win.

Shea Theodore had a pair of assists.

Adin Hill turned aside 18 shots for Vegas, who moved to 19-7-3.

Nikita Chibrikov also scored for the Jets.

Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves for Winnipeg, who dropped to 21-9-1.

Chibrikov gave the Jets the lead 9:27 into the first when he drove the net and shot a rebound off a Vladislav Namestnikov shot into an almost wide open net.

The goal was his 2nd of the season and third in his three NHL appearances.

There was no scoring in the second period.

Winnipeg didn't register their first shot on goal of the second period until the 18 minute mark.

Keegan Kolesar scored 4:34 into the third when he parlayed a solid shift of forechecking into the tying goal.

"It's fun, it's very fun. Got a lot of special people in the building," said Kolesar, who grew up in Winnipeg. "It's exciting." Logan Stanley attempted to get a pass to Kyle Connor, but the disc ended up hopping over his stick and Kolesar took possesstion before firing home a wrister past Hellebuyck from inside the left circle to make it 1-1.

The goal was his 7th of the season.

Josh Morrissey scored at 10:55 and gave the Jets a one goal lead.

Morrissey took a partner pass along the Vegas blue line before moving in to the top of the face off circle and blew a slapshot past Adin Hill, beating him over his right shoulder.

The goal was his 3rd of the season.

Victor Olofsson tied it up with a power play marker at 18:11 when Mark Stone hit him with a cross-crease pass which the Vegas winger one timed past Hellebuyck.

The goal was his 4th of the season.

"I mean I think we played a solid game, I think we were the better team and we just kind of kept playing the same way the entire game and we finally got paid for it at the end," said Olofsson.

The game went into overtime.

"We were down two to one in the third and I thought we were playing really well to be honest with you especially defensively. They (Jets) are at the end of I think a four in six, they've had a tough stretch, we've been off for a while so I thought we might be rusty early," said Vegas Head Coach Bruce Cassidy.

"I thought after the first period that we executed better and had our legs and hands more than I would have suspected. Didn't give up much for two periods but hung in there and got some calls late we needed them obviously and our power play was able to connect there.

Both teams are active Saturday as Vegas visits Edmonton and Winnipeg hosts Montreal.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Mark Scheifele scored twice and added an assist and Kyle Connor scored and added two assists as the Winnipeg Jets cruised past the visiting Boston Bruins by a 8-1 score Tuesday night.

The Jets rebounded from a 4-1 loss to Columbus on Sunday night.

Winnipeg has won three of their last six games.

Gabriel Vilardi and Nikita Chibrikov each had a goal and an assist.

Neal Pionk had a pair of assists.

Vladislav Namestnikov and Gabriel Vilardi also scored for the Jets.

Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves for Winnipeg, who moved to 21-9-0.

David Pastrnak scored for Boston.

Jeremy Swayman turned aside 27 shots for Boston, who dropped to 15-12-3.

Winnipeg scored first on the power play 12:09 into the opening stanza. With Brandon Carlo off for high sticking Vladislav Namestnikov poked the puck past Swayman after Nino Niederreiter's shot hit the goal post.

The goal was his 7th of the season.

Mark Scheifele made it 2-0 with just under two minutes left in the first.

Gabriel Vilardi's second effort in the high slot saw him slide the puck to Connor along the goal line. The Jet winger paused before hitting Scheifele with a saucer pass in the slot which he shot just over Swayman's shoulder.

The goal was his 15th of the season.

Scheifele scored again just under seven minutes into the second when he one timed a cross ice feed from Josh Morrissey at 7:02.

David Pastrnak got Boston on the board with a power play marker 9:13 into the second when he one timed a Charlie McAvoy feed past Hellebuyck from the left face off dot, beating the Jet netminder high glove side to score his 10th of the season.

Kyle Connor scored 1:15 into the third to give the Jets a 4-1 lead when Mark Scheifele found him alone cruising in the slot.

Connor snapped the disc past Swayman, beating him high blocker side.

The goal was his 16th of the season.

Gabriel Vilardi scored 5:33 into the third after Connor hit him just inside the Bruins blue line before he cut to the center and beat Swayman with a wrister just inside the left post.

The goal was his 12th of the season.

Alex Iafalo made it 6-1 on the power play at 7:19 after he redirected a Neal Pionk shot from the point.

Mason Appleton scored at 16:16 off a shot from the corner which went in off of Swayman's skate.

Nikita Chibrikov scored ten seconds later off a turnover as Cole Perfetti fed him a pass which he one timed past Swayman, beating him high glove side to score his first of the season.

Winnipeg hosts Vegas on Thursday while Boston visits Seattle.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Jordan Kyrou scored twice and Joel Hofer stopped 22 shots as the St. Louis Blues downed the Winnipeg Jets by a 4-1 score Tuesday night.

The Blues moved to .500 with the win (12-12-2).

Dylan Holloway had a goal and an assist.

Robert Thomas also scored for the Blues.

Scott Perunovich had a pair of assists for St. Louis.

Mark Scheifele scored the lone Jet goal on the night.

Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg (18-8-0).

The loss extended the Jets losing streak to a season high four games.

There was no scoring in the first period.

Jordan Kyrou got the Blues on the board late in the second period when Brayden Schenn took control of the puck just along the boards in the neutral zone before before sending Kyrou in on Hellebuyck.

The St. Louis winger attempted a deke which the Winnipeg goaltender initially stopped before the disc was knocked into the net off a backchecking Mark Scheifele's skate.

Dylan Holloway followed up 39 seconds later when he broke in on Hellebuyck, getting off a shot before following up on his own rebound and lifting the disc past him at 18:43.

The goal was his 8th of the season.

Kyrou netted his second of the night 6:38 into the third when Dylan Holloway got control of the puck along the end boards before moving into the faceoff circle and slid the puck to Kyrou, who moved into the high slot before spinning and beating Hellebuyck with a wrister.

The goal was his 9th of the season.

Mark Scheifele scored at 15:45 of the third, beating Hofer with a wrister.

The goal was his 13th of the season.

Robert Thomas scored an empty netter at 16:21 to seal the win for the Blues.

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NOTES-Jets winger Nikolaj Ehlers was put on IR and Winnipeg called up F Brad Lambert from their AHL affiliate, the Manitoba Moose earlier in the day.

Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Alex Iafallo and Vladislav Namestnikov each had a goal and an assist as the Winnipeg Jets downed the visiting Dallas Stars by a 4-1 score Saturday afternoon.

Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves for Winnipeg, who won their 6th straight contest to move to an NHL leading 14-1-0.

Rasmus Kupari, Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for the Jets.

Jake Oettinger and Casey De Smith combined to stop 21 shots for Dallas, who dropped to 8-5-0.

Alex Iafallo scored on the power play 7:28 into the first period.

With Sam Steel off for tripping Namestnikov fed Iafallo from the corner after the Jet centre had cut hard for the net.

The goal was his 2nd of the season.

Iafallo snapped a shot just inside the left post to make it 1-0 Winnipeg.

Rasmus Kupari put the Jets up by a pair at 10:21 when he pressured Dallas defenceman Mathew Dumba who coughed up the puck to Alex Iafallo who got a shot on goal as Kupari calmly picked up the disc and slid it into the open net.

The goal was his 2nd of the season.

Vladislav Namestnikov scored 3:04 into the second period on a second effort following a wraparound attempt.

Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger appeared to have control of the puck following the initial shot but Namestnikov managed to smack the disc into the net in a follow up attempt.

The goal was his 4th of the season.

Nikolaj Ehlers made it 4-0 with a power play marker at 7:14 after he one timed a Mark Scheifele feed from the side boards past Oettinger.

With Jamie Benn off for roughing, Ehlers worked his way to the top of the left face off circle before Scheifele found him and the Jet winger hammered it through Oettinger's pads.

Oettinger's afternoon ended shortly thereafter as Stars Head Coach Pete DeBoer pulled him in favor of Casey DeSmith just over two minutes later.

The Stars scored a late power play goal when Roope Hintz got a puck through Hellebuyck's pads.

The goal was his 5th of the season.

Dallas visits Pittsburgh Monday while Winnipeg travels to New York to face the Rangers Tuesday.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Gabriel Vilardi's goal just over a minute into the contest proved to be all the offence the Winnipeg Jets needed Thursday night as goaltender Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 34 shots he faced as the Winnipeg Jets blanked the visiting Colorado Avalanche by a 1-0 score.

The shutout was his second straight and 40th career shutout.

“I thought the guys played really hard in front of me. They let me see pucks, cleared rebounds, scored. We really committed to our game in our defensive zone. It might not have been pretty but that’s why every game is a team effort," said Hellebuyck.

“We didn’t give up at all. We battled right to the end. Like I said, they were cleaning up, they weren’t giving up any rebounds, they were boxing out, puck was hitting me. We had a perfect combination for a game like that.” “No. 40 feels really good. That’s one of those milestones. One more is just the 300 wins. I’m really looking forward to that this season. Hopefully, I can achieve it, but this one feels really good.” Winnipeg has lost only once this season, a 6-4 setback to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Their record stands at 13-1-0.

Alexandar Georgiev made 27 saves for Colorado, who dropped to 6-8-0.

Gabriel Vilardi opened the scoring just over a minute into the opening stanza when Mark Scheifele took control of the puck along the boards in he neutral zone before moving across the Avalanche line and sliding the disc to Vilardi, who shot the puck past and outstretched Georgiev's glove at 1:06.

The tally was his 6th of the season.

"Yeah, I think on the 2-on-1’s, I'm expecting to get that puck every time from him. I've seen him do it in practice so many times. He always finds the triangles under the stick, whether it's through the legs, whatever it is, he'll wait a guy out and find the seam and that's on 2-on-1’s, that's on power play. That's all over the ice because he's just such a smart player," said Vilardi.

There was no scoring in the second period.

Colorado put on some pressure in the third, outshooting Winnipeg 16-4 and generated some quality scoring chances but were unable to score.

Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar pulled his goaltender with just over three minutes left in regulation.

Colorado enjoyed a two-man advantage for 1:10 as Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey was penalized for holding but were unable to tie the game.

Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar was satisfied with his club's effort on the night. "Listen I don't have any complaints on our game, our effort or competitiveness. I thought it was all fantastic tonight. You know I would say the chances we gave up on the defensive side, they (Jets) earned them. You know we had a couple of turnovers up ice first period especially that led to some dangerous chances against."

But Jets Head Coach Scott Arniel wasn't quite as content with his troop's effort as his counterpart Bednar was.

"I think I'll go three places. We didn't break the puck out real well. We didn't get through the neutral zone. We turned a lot of pucks over through the neutral zone and then we didn't have that extended zone time. We got knocked off pucks. Our puck support in the ozone, where we usually -- and especially in the first, we had close support, we got pucks to the net, we had traffic... It was kind of a 200 foot kind of problem tonight. In the second period, I think they had five rush chances where we got outnumbered. Our F3 dove in, our fourth and fifth guys got beat up the ice by maybe their D, so a little bit of everything kind of happened there." SHOTS-COLORADO 34 WINNIPEG 28

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Nino Niederreiter fired a pair of third period goals and Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 21 shots he faced as the Winnipeg Jets shutout the visiting Utah Hockey Club 3-0 Tuesday night.

Gabriel Vilardi had the other Jet goal.

Adam Lowry had a pair of assists.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 21 shots he faced to earn his 2nd shutout of the season (12-1-0). Karel Vejmelka turned aside 25 shots for Utah, who dropped to 5-5-3.

There was no scoring in the first period.

The Jets took a 1-0 lead late in the second period on the power play when Gabriel Vilardi tipped a Josh Morrissey blast from the point past Vejmelka at 17:57.

The goal was his 5th of the season.

Nino Niederreiter gave the Jets some breathing room 7:30 into the third period when he converted a Mason Appleton feed to make it 2-0 Winnipeg.

Adam Lowry moved across the Utah blue line and hit a streaking Mason Appleton along the right side boards before the Jet right winger spotted a trailing Niederreiter in the high slot and sent him in alone on Vejmelka and beat him with a low wrister.

Utah Head Coach André Tourigny pulled his goaltender with just over three minutes left in regulation.

Niederreiter scored nto an empty net to seal the win for the Jets.

The goal was his 7th of the season.

Both clubs see action Thursday as Utah visits St. Louis while Winnipeg hosts Colorado.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Dylan Samberg's goal 7:38 into the third period proved to be the game winner as the Winnipeg Jets opened up a four-game homestand by edging the Tampa Bay Lightning by a 5-4 score Sunday afternoon.

The win was their third in a row.

Samberg snuck a puck through traffic from the point, beating a screened Jonas Johansson to give the Jets the lead.

Seven different Winnipeg players scored in the game.

Mark Scheifele and Vladislav Namestnikov each had a goal and an assist for the Jets.<[p> Logan Stanley, Alex Iafallo and Cole Perfetti also scored for Winnipeg.

Josh Morrissey had a pair of assists for the Jets.

Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves for Winnipeg, who moved to 11-1-0 on the season.

Brandon Hagel, Brayden Point, Mitchell Chaffee and Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning.

Jonas Johansson turned aside 27 shots for Tampa Bay, who dropped to 7-5-0.

Brandon Hagel gave the Lightning the lead 6:49 into the opening period when he scooped up a loose puck in front of the Winnipeg net after Jets defenceman Dylan DeMelo gloved the disc out of the goal crease during a goalmouth scramble.

Hagel fired it past Hellebuyck to score his 7th of the season.

Winnipeg challenged the goal, citing interference but it was allowed to stand following a video review.

Tampa Bay took advantage of the ensuing power play scoring 1:13 later when Brayden Point one-timed a Nikita Kucherov feed past the Jet netminder, beating him blocker side to make it 2-0.

The goal was his 8th of the season.

Vladislav Namestnikov cut the Tampa lead in half at 12:23 when Josh Morrissey found him cutting for the net and hit him with a crisp pass that he calmly slid past Johansson to make it 2-1.

The goal was his 3rd of the season.

Logan Stanley tied it up 5:49 into the second when Nikolaj Ehlers found him in the high slot.

Stanley stepped into it, firing a high wrister past Johansson to make it 2-2.

Mark Scheifele gave the Jets the lead at 7:36 following a turnover at the Tampa Bay blue line.

The Jet centre worked a textbook 2-on-1 with linemate Gabriel Vilardi before firing the return pass into a largely open net to make it 3-2 Jets.

The goal was his 7th of the season.

Mitchell Chaffee tied it at 3 at the 8:39 mark when Jake Guentzel took control of the puck in the neutral zone before moving across the Jets blue line and hitting Chaffee with a cross slot pass as he drove the net.

Chaffee beat Hellebuyck with a wrister just inside the left post.

Alex Iafallo gave the Jets the lead just over four minutes into the third when Nino Niederreiter found him alone in front of the Tampa Bay net and slid him the puck from behind the goal.

Iafallo beat Johansson with a low shot to make it 4-3.

Nikita Kucherov knocked a puck off of Vladislav Namestnikov's stick past Hellebuyck to make it 4-4 at 6:51.

Namestinikov, who had the puck, elected to cut right in front of his own net and Kucherov simply knocked the puck off his stick and past Hellebuyck.

Dylan Samberg scored at 7:48, sneaking a shot from the point through traffic past a screened Johansson to make it 5-4.

Nikolaj Ehlers potted an empty netter with 2:45 remaining in regulation to seal the win for the Jets.

Cole Perfetti scored into an empty net with 36 seconds left to make it 7-4.

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-John Tavares scored three goals and added an assist to pace the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 6-4 win over the Winnipeg Jets Monday night.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Maple Leafs.

William Nylander had a goal and an assist for Toronto.

Matthew Knies and Morgan Reilly also scored for the Maple Leafs.

Max Pacioretty had three assists for Toronto.

Anthony Stolarz turned aside 19 shots for Maple Leafs, who moved to 5-4-1.

Kyle Connor scored three goals for Winnipeg.

Mark Scheifele scored the other Jet goal.

Josh Morrissey had three assists.

Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg, who lost their first game of the NHL season to drop to 8-1-0.

Tavares opened the scoring just under the twelve minute mark when he shoveled a Max Pacioretty cross crease feed past Hellebuyck to score his third of the season.

William Nylander gave the Leafs a two-goal cushion at 17:47 after he snapped a shot past Hellebuyck following a Neal Pionk turnover along the end boards.

Pacioretty got to the loose puck at the bottom of the faceoff circle and slid the disc to Nylander, who made no mistake, snapping the disc past Hellebuyck high blocker side.

Matthew Knies made it 3-0 56 seconds into the second stanza after he scored on a rebound off an Auston Matthews shot.

Morgan Rielly scored at 3:25 with a hard wrister, beating Hellebuyck just inside the right post.

The goal was his 4th of the season.

Kyle Connor got Winnipeg on the board with a power play marker at 6:19 of the second after converting a Mark Scheifele cross ice feed, beating Stolarz high glove side.

Connor fired his second power play marker of the night at 11:25 when he snapped a Josh Morrissey feed past a screened Stolarz to cut the Toronto lead to 4-2.

Jets Head Coach Scott Arniel had a blunt assessment of his club's effort on the night.

"It was throughout. Whether it was our ready to go, ready to compete, ready to get into it, I don't have an answer for you. Toronto was a heck of a lot better than we were. They wanted it. They came in here and gave us a punch right in the nose in the first two periods. It was a little late when we responded, but it's not good enough. We didn't come out the way we wanted to come out."

"It just felt like everybody was off. Everybody was, like you said there was momentum building. Then all of a sudden there was a mistake or a turnover or bad coverage, whatever, and all of a sudden Toronto's getting great chances. The first two periods, that was a lot of what we did. It was just, we kind of shot ourselves in the foot," said Arniel.

Tavares counted his second of the night at 17:33 of the second period when he popped a backhand shot past Hellebuyck to make it 5-2 Toronto.

The goal was his 4th of the season.

Mark Scheifele scored 7:46 into the third, one timing a Kyle Connor feed just under the cross bar to make it 5-3.

Kyle Connor got his third of the game at 16:13, ripping a shot past Stolarz through a screen to make it 5-4.

The goal was his 9th of the season.

The Jet winger said there was no quit by his team.

“Well, we got it down to one, and we were pressuring there. There’s no quit in this room. We wanted to come out and push and show some good work ethic there in the third and see what happens," he said.

John Tavares added an empty netter to seal the win for the Maple Leafs at 19:35 of the third.

Maple Leafs Head Coach Craig Berube liked his club came out.

“That’s exactly what we needed, for sure, especially coming into this building. It’s a tough building and a very good team we’re playing tonight. I liked our mindset right away in the game of playing fast and quick and north, good forechecks. We got pucks to the net that we hounded after. We were just on top of things.”

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Winnipeg, Manitoba (NHN)-Neal Pionk had a goal and an three assists while Nikolaj Ehlers and Cole Perfetti each scored twice and added an assist to pace the Winnipeg Jets to a 8-3 win over the visiting San Jose Sharks Friday night.

The win was Winnipeg's fourth straight to start the NHL season.

Connor Hellebuyck made 19 saves for Winnipeg, as they moved to 4-0-0.

Josh Morrissey and Kyle Connor also scored for the Jets.

Vladislav Namestnikov had three assists for Winnipeg.

Gabriel Valardi chipped in a pair of assists for Winnipeg.

Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist for San Jose.

Luke Kunin and Fabian Zetterlund also scored for the Sharks.

Mikael Granlund had a pair of assists for San Jose.

Mackenzie Blackwood and Vitek Vanecek combined to make 30 saves for San Jose, who have yet to win this season (0-3-2).

Josh Morrissey put Winnipeg on the board just under two minutes into the opening frame when he took a partner pass from Colin Miller before moving in and beating Mackenzie Blackwood with a low glove side wrister.

The goal was his first of the season.

Nikolaj Ehlers made it 2-0 with a power play goal at 9:25 when Gabriel Vilardi found him alone on the right side of the San Jose net. The Jet winger made no mistake, firing a high wrister past Vanecek.

Tyler Toffoli cut the Jets early lead in half with a power play marker when he tipped a Jake Walman slap shot past Hellebuyck at 11:43. The goal was his fourth of the season.

Ehlers scored his second of the period at 13:31 when Cole Perfetti hit him with a cross ice feed before the Jet winger moved in and fired a wrister past Blackwood beating him high blocker side to make it 3-1 Jets.

The goal was his second of the season.

Neal Pionk scored on the power play through a screen at to make it 4-1 Jets at 18:48.

Kyle Connor fired his third of the season 1:48 into the second period to chase Vanecek from the game, beating him high blocker side to make it 5-1 Winnipeg. Cole Perfetti fired a power play goal 9:50 into the third to make it 6-2 Jets. Cole Perfetti scored on the power play, one-timing a Vladislav Namestnikov feed past Vanecek from the left faceoff dot at 12:55 to make it 7-3 Winnipeg. Vladislav Namestnikov converted a late Neal Pionk feed off the rush to make it 8-4 at 19:27.

Both teams next see action on Sunday as Winnipeg hosts Pittsburgh and San Jose returns home to host Colorado.

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