Ehlers pots hat trick as Winnipeg Jets keep rolling with 6-2 win in Columbus

The NHL’s champion squad successful the period of October got November started connected the close ft Friday nighttime successful Columbus.

Fresh disconnected an awesome triumph successful Detroit, the Winnipeg Jets knocked disconnected the Blue Jackets 6-2 to amended to 10-1 connected the season.

Nikolaj Ehlers got the scoring started astatine the 5:28 people of the archetypal erstwhile helium wheeled into the Columbus extremity and bushed Elvin Merzlikins with a long-range slap shot.

Sean Kuraly answered for the Jackets conscionable implicit 11 minutes into the period. James van Riemsdyk won a puck conflict down the Jets’ nett and fed Kuraly successful front, who potted it past Eric Comrie to level the score.

But conscionable implicit 4 minutes later, Ehlers restored the Jets’ lead. Columbus had chances to wide the puck but failed to bash truthful acknowledgment successful portion to immoderate bully instrumentality enactment by Dylan Samberg astatine the bluish line. After a scramble adjacent the bluish line, the puck yet recovered its mode to Ehlers successful immoderate unfastened crystal and helium buried a hard wrister to marque it 2-1.

It stayed that mode until the 2:20 people of the 2nd play erstwhile the Jets marque it 3-1 acknowledgment to immoderate bully puck question successful the violative end. Adam Lowry dropped it disconnected to Neal Pionk arsenic helium drove down the partition earlier Pionk fed Mason Appleton successful the slot. He one-timed it location for his 4th of the year.

Winnipeg kept the unit connected arsenic they searched for much goals and Kyle Connor came precise adjacent erstwhile helium rang 1 disconnected the crossbar but Merzlikins kept his squad successful the game.

Columbus recovered immoderate beingness precocious successful the play aft Mark Scheifele was called for tripping and conscionable 8 seconds later, Sean Monahan tipped a constituent changeable past Comrie to marque it 3-2.

Before the play ran out, though, Winnipeg regained its two-goal cushion. After a scramble successful beforehand of Merzlikins, the puck escaped and landed connected the instrumentality of Ehlers who had a wide-open nett to people into for his 5th vocation chapeau instrumentality and archetypal since Dec. 2018.

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The Jets took the 4-2 pb into the 3rd play aft outshooting Columbus 19-8 successful the 2nd and 31-16 implicit the archetypal 2 periods.

It stayed a two-goal crippled until the 11:39 people of the 3rd erstwhile Josh Morrissey blasted 1 location from the constituent connected the powerfulness play to marque it 5-2.

Gabriel Vilardi made it 6-2 with conscionable implicit 5 minutes left, finishing disconnected a superb play from Connor who made a bully toed resistance astir a defender earlier sending it to Vilardi successful beforehand of the crease.

For Connor, who was named the NHL’s 2nd prima of the period of October earlier successful the day, it extended his season-opening constituent streak to 11 games.

Comrie lone had to marque 20 saves to amended to 3-0 connected the play portion Merzlikins turned speech 38 shots successful defeat.

The Jets volition instrumentality location to look the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday afternoon. It’s a 2 p.m. puck driblet with pregame sum connected 680 CJOB opening astatine noon.