Hellebuyck, Iafallo lead Winnipeg Jets to 4-1 win in Minnesota

Sometimes you request your goalie to bail you retired of trouble.

Good happening the Winnipeg Jets person the champion goalie successful the NHL.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 43 0f 44 shots, making 38 saves implicit the archetypal 2 periods arsenic the Jets picked up a 4-1 triumph successful Minnesota Monday nighttime to amended to 18-4 connected the season.

Like helium did erstwhile the 2 teams met successful Winnipeg past month, Jacob Middleton opened the scoring for the Wild, banging location a rebound astatine the 8:37 people of the opening period.

The Jets answered backmost little than 90 seconds aboriginal acknowledgment to their 4th line. Rasmus Kupari won a puck conflict successful the country and fed Alex Iafallo successful front, who buried a hard backhand past Filip Gustavsson astatine the 10:03 mark.

Minnesota had the bulk of the bully chances arsenic the play wore on but Hellebuyck stood tall, turning speech 19 of 20 shots faced portion the Jets mustered 9 connected extremity successful the first.

The Wild continued to determination shots connected Hellebuyck successful the 2nd but it was Winnipeg who grabbed the pb 12:05 into the mediate frame.

After Hellebuyck turned speech different apical notch accidental from Minnesota, the Jets broke up the crystal 4-on-3 arsenic 2 members of the Wild got tied up with Iafallo down the Jets’ net. Eventually, the puck coiled up connected the instrumentality of Neal Pionk earlier helium slid a cleanable walk to Nino Niederreiter, who roofed a backhand past Gustavsson to enactment the Jets up 2-1.

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Winnipeg surely had much beingness successful the 2nd period, particularly aft they scored but they were inactive outshot 17-13 for a two-period full of of 39-20 successful Minnesota’s favour.

But successful the third, the Jets enactment the clamps down connected the Wild, allowing conscionable 2 shots implicit the archetypal 14 minutes earlier Winnipeg picked up an security marker connected the powerfulness play.

With the 2nd portion connected the ice, Iafallo tipped a Pionk constituent changeable that Gustavsson caught a portion of but not capable arsenic it fell into the nett to springiness Winnipeg a 3-1 lead. The extremity was the 100th of Iafallo’s career.

Minnesota pulled the goalie with conscionable nether 3 minutes near but couldn’t muster overmuch of a propulsion earlier Adam Lowry sealed it with an bare netter with conscionable implicit a infinitesimal to play.

Winnipeg volition present caput further westbound to sojourn the Los Angeles Kings Wednesday night. Pregame sum connected 680 CJOB starts astatine 7 p.m. with the puck dropping conscionable aft 9 p.m.