Ehlers, Perfetti each score twice as Winnipeg Jets rout Sharks 8-3

After 3 consecutive days of practice, the Winnipeg Jets were raring to go.

The Jets struck for 4 goals successful the archetypal play arsenic they manhandled the still-winless San Jose Sharks 8-3 connected Friday nighttime astatine the Canada Life Centre.

After a brace of tight-checking overtime wins, the Jets scored aboriginal and often to commencement the play with 4 consecutive wins for the archetypal clip successful Jets history. The Jets are 1 of conscionable 3 unbeaten teams near successful the NHL.

“We evidently had lone scored 1 extremity the past mates and we had gotten tons of chances,” said caput manager Scott Arniel. “Each portion and each enactment seemed similar they had their just stock of opportunities that didn’t spell successful and contiguous it’s bully to spot everybody kinda get rewarded for it.”

Cole Perfetti and Nikolaj Ehlers each scored twice. And Perfetti and Vladislav Namestnikov some had a career-best four-point nights.

“We’re each utilizing our speed, our skill,” said Namestnikov. “And conscionable getting those pucks connected nett and it worked retired today.”

The Jets 2nd enactment had problems producing offensively successful the archetypal 3 games. But Ehlers, Perfetti, and Namestnikov broke retired successful a large mode arsenic they combined for 11 points successful the victory.

“We judge successful 1 different and we cognize what we tin do,” Perfetti said. “I don’t deliberation thing magically changed. I deliberation we conscionable had the mindset of the assurance and content successful what we tin bash arsenic a line.

“We knew it was going to come. It conscionable took a mates games and hopefully present the floodgates volition unfastened and I deliberation that was a truly bully assurance crippled for our line.”

The Jets, with the NHL’s top-ranked powerfulness play, scored 4 goals connected the antheral vantage successful 7 chances. It’s conscionable the 2nd clip successful Jets 2.0 past they’ve scored 4 powerfulness play goals successful a game. They’ve present been palmy connected 50 per cent of their powerfulness play opportunities successful the archetypal 4 games.

The Jets wasted small clip getting connected the board. After Ehlers skated the puck into the Sharks’ end, helium took it into the country earlier helium passed it backmost to Colin Miller, who past sent a cross-ice walk to Josh Morrissey. His wrister from the constituent eluded Mackenzie Blackwood to marque it 1-0 conscionable 1:59 into the contest.

Winnipeg continued to determination connected the unit during the archetypal 10 minutes with San Jose hardly getting a sniff of the puck, starring to a brace of Sharks penalties that enactment the Jets connected a lengthy 5-on-3.

The Jets red-hot powerfulness play took afloat advantage. After cycling the puck astir the San Jose end, Gabriel Vilardi recovered Ehlers for a one-timer that helium buried to marque it 2-0 astatine the 9:25 mark.

Winnipeg took a punishment soon aft Ehlers scored, putting the Sharks connected the powerfulness play wherever they chopped into the Jets’ lead. Former Jet Tyler Toffoli tipped a Jake Walman constituent changeable past Connor Hellebuyck to marque it 2-1.

But little than 2 minutes later, Winnipeg restored the two-goal lead. Perfetti made a large play, stealing the puck connected a coagulated back-check earlier rifling the puck up to Ehlers successful stride. He ripped a wrister past Blackwood to marque it 3-1 astatine the 13:31 mark.

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The Jets recovered themselves connected different powerfulness play precocious successful the archetypal and their 2nd portion cashed in. An innocent-looking wrist changeable from Neal Pionk bushed Blackwood done immoderate postulation to marque it 4-1 aft 20 minutes.

The Sharks chose to permission Blackwood successful for the 2nd but helium lasted conscionable 1:46 earlier Kyle Connor roofed his 3rd of the play past him, ending his nighttime successful favour of Vitek Vanecek who had played the nighttime earlier successful Chicago.

Winnipeg continued to predominate possession done overmuch of the 2nd but the lone different extremity successful the play came from San Jose. Luke Kunin got escaped successful the slot and bushed Hellebuyck five-hole from adjacent scope astir the midway constituent of the period.

The Jets made it 6-2 astatine the 9:50 people of the 3rd erstwhile Perfetti took a walk from Alex Iafallo successful the slot and ripped it past Vanecek.

Just 19 seconds later, San Jose made it 6-3 erstwhile Fabian Zetterlund bushed Hellebuyck connected a 2-on-1.
Winnipeg soon recovered themselves connected yet different powerfulness play and again they took vantage with Perfetti scoring his 2nd of the play connected a slapshot that should person been stopped by Vanecek but bushed him five-hole.

Not wanting to beryllium near retired of the goal-scoring barrage, Namestnikov buried 1 successful modulation with conscionable implicit 30 seconds remaining to marque it 8-3.

In making his 500th vocation start, Hellebuyck had to crook speech conscionable 19 shots to gain the triumph connected Hellebuyck nighttime arsenic the nine celebrated his Vezina and Jennings Trophy grant wins from past season.

The Jets instrumentality to enactment Sunday day against Pittsburgh erstwhile they volition honour Bryan Little. The pregame amusement is astatine 12 p.m. connected 680 CJOB, with puck driblet conscionable aft 2 p.m.