Ehlers scores OT winner as Winnipeg Jets edge Kraken to improve to 7-0

The Winnipeg Jets support uncovering ways to win.

After blowing a two-goal pb successful the 3rd period, Nikolaj Ehlers scored successful overtime to assistance the Jets to a 4-3 triumph successful Seattle Thursday night, their seventh consecutive triumph to commencement the 2024-25 season.

After a agelong of astir six minutes without a whistle, Matty Beniers opened the scoring with his archetypal of the season, ripping a changeable precocious past Connor Hellebuyck successful modulation astatine the 11:27 mark.

Seattle pushed to get different extremity connected the board, earning the game’s archetypal powerfulness play but the Jets killed it disconnected and kept it a one-goal crippled aft 20 minutes. Seattle outshot the Jets 12-7 successful the first.

Winnipeg got connected the committee conscionable 3:56 into the 2nd play erstwhile a Mason Appleton changeable was stopped by Joey Daccord but the rebound ricocheted disconnected the thorax of Nino Niederreiter and trickled implicit the extremity line.

Seattle thought they had regained the pb conscionable implicit 7 minutes into the play but a Jets situation overturned the extremity due to the fact that of goalie interference.

With conscionable nether 5 minutes to spell successful the second, the Jets took their archetypal pb of the night. Kyle Connor made a large play to support the puck successful astatine the Seattle bluish enactment and Mark Scheifele came and collected it earlier firing it down debased to Gabriel Vilardi. He drove the puck successful beforehand of the nett and tucked it past Daccord for his archetypal of the season, extending Connor’s season-opening points streak to 7 games.

Winnipeg took that 2-1 pb into the 3rd play and extended it to 3-1 astatine the 4:21 people erstwhile Niederreiter potted his 2nd of the nighttime moments aft the Kraken killed disconnected a Winnipeg powerfulness play.

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The Jets seemed acceptable to cruise to the triumph but the Kraken had different ideas. With conscionable nether 9 minutes left, a breached play successful the Winnipeg extremity led to 3 Jets flocking to Jared McCann, but that near Jordan Eberle unsocial successful beforehand of the net. McCann fed the Kraken skipper who past buried it done Hellebuyck to marque it 3-2.

Beniers tied it with 3:22 to spell erstwhile helium tipped a Brandon Montour constituent changeable past Hellebuyck, sending the crippled to overtime.

With a delayed punishment pending successful OT, Ehlers came disconnected the bench, skated into the Seattle extremity and got a walk from Scheifele that helium fired connected goal. Daccord got astir of it but the puck squeaked done his assemblage and trickled conscionable implicit the extremity enactment to springiness the Jets the win.

With the win, the Jets go the 17th squad successful NHL past to commencement a play with 7 consecutive wins. It’s besides their 15th consecutive regular play triumph dating backmost to past season, 2 shy of the league record.

The Jets volition look to marque it 8 wins successful a enactment Saturday nighttime erstwhile they sojourn the Calgary Flames.