Comrie records first shutout in almost two years as Winnipeg Jets blank Carolina 3-0

With a agelong interruption for the Four Nations Faceoff looming, the Winnipeg Jets proceed to play immoderate of their champion hockey of the season.

The latest illustration was a 3-0 triumph implicit the Carolina Hurricanes Tuesday nighttime successful which their 2nd powerfulness play portion scored doubly and backup goalie Eric Comrie earned his archetypal shutout since Mar. 25, 2023, extending the Jets’ winning streak to 7 games.

Carolina was fixed the game’s archetypal powerfulness play erstwhile the Jets were called for having excessively galore men connected the crystal and thought they opened the scoring astatine the 15:37 mark.

Jackson Blake’s changeable bushed Eric Comrie done a assemblage but Winnipeg challenged the play, believing determination was goalie interference connected the play. Replays showed Mikko Rantanen entering the crease and making interaction with Comrie’s stick, impeding his quality to marque a save, truthful the extremity was taken disconnected the board. Winnipeg past killed the remainder of the penalty.

With 1:05 to spell successful the first, Dmitry Orlov was called for tripping, pitting Carolina’s league-best punishment termination against Winnipeg’s top-ranked powerfulness play, and it didn’t instrumentality agelong for the Jets to triumph that battle.

Alex Iafallo made a bully determination on the partition to make immoderate abstraction for himself earlier sending a walk to Nino Niederreiter for a one-timer that bushed Pyotr Kochetkov with 42 seconds to spell successful the first.

Carolina astir tied it with a precocious flurry but Comrie stood gangly arsenic Winnipeg carried a 1-0 pb and a 12-8 borderline successful shots connected extremity into the second.

The Hurricanes received their 2nd punishment of the nighttime 2:12 into the 2nd erstwhile Taylor Hall was called for hooking, and erstwhile again Winnipeg’s 2nd powerfulness play portion took attraction of business.

A changeable by Cole Perfetti was blocked by Orlov but the puck bounced to Neal Pionk arsenic Orlov slid retired of the picture. With tons of clip and space, helium walked successful and walloped a slapshot implicit the enarthrosis of Kochetkov to marque it 2-0.

Just 27 seconds later, Carolina got a powerfulness play erstwhile Parker Ford was called for tripping, his archetypal NHL penalty. Rantanen astir scored but his effort deed the station and sat escaped successful the crease for a infinitesimal earlier the Jets cleared it to safety.

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With 51 seconds remaining successful Ford’s penalty, the Hurricanes had six players connected the crystal and were assessed a seat minor. Winnipeg’s apical PP portion really got to spot the crystal aft the 4-on-4 expired but couldn’t get thing acceptable up.

Carolina coiled up outshooting the Jets 12-6 successful the 2nd but Winnipeg carried their 2-0 pb into the third.

The crippled rolled on with not a full batch happening but with six minutes near and a delayed punishment to Carolina pending, Vladislav Namestnikov scored to marque it 3-0. However, upon reappraisal it was deemed that helium kicked the puck successful truthful the extremity was waved off. Winnipeg did not people connected the ensuing powerfulness play.

Winnipeg had a 2nd extremity waved disconnected conscionable implicit 2 minutes later. Rasmus Kupari got into the bluish overgarment earlier jamming location a rebound past Kochetkov. It didn’t look similar Kupari impeded Kochetkov but the extremity was instantly waved disconnected for goalie interference. The Jets decided to situation the play and upon review, the telephone was overturned, giving Kupari his 5th extremity of the season.

The lone happening near to find astatine that constituent was whether Comrie could get to the decorativeness enactment with the cleanable sheet, and helium did for his 3rd vocation shutout by making 29 saves successful the win.

Winnipeg volition play their last crippled earlier the Four Nations Faceoff Friday against the Islanders.