Hellebuyck steals the show with second straight shutout as Winnipeg Jets edge Colorado 1-0

When the Winnipeg Jets mislaid to Colorado successful the playoffs successful the spring, they had a ton of occupation keeping the puck retired of their ain net.

There was nary specified contented Thursday nighttime arsenic Connor Hellebuyck stopped each 35 shots helium faced successful a 1-0 Jets triumph to amended to 13-1 connected the season.

It took conscionable implicit a infinitesimal for the Jets to get connected the board. Mark Scheifele stole the puck from Josh Manson astatine the Winnipeg bluish enactment and sprung himself connected a 2-on-1 with Gabriel Vilardi.

Scheifele carried the puck into the Colorado extremity earlier laying a cleanable walk connected the instrumentality of Vilardi who roofed it past a helpless Alexandar Georgiev to marque it 1-0 aft 66 seconds of play.

Winnipeg astir made it 2-0 soon thereafter erstwhile Kyle Connor recovered himself successful unsocial connected Georgiev but helium was turned aside.

Both sides had aggregate decent chances arsenic the play went on including 2 for Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon that Hellebuyck turned aside.

With 1:38 remaining successful the first, Winnipeg’s league-best powerfulness play got their archetypal accidental of the crippled acknowledgment to an Artturi Lehkonen slashing punishment but Colorado got to the extremity of the play safely.

The Jets outshot the Avalanche 14-9 successful the opening framework and continued to transportation play arsenic the 2nd play got going but couldn’t find an security goal.

Colorado started to wrestle power distant arsenic the play rolled on with MacKinnon’s enactment looking particularly unsafe but they besides couldn’t find the backmost of the net, missing the nett connected the bulk of their changeable attempts.

With 4:26 near successful the period, the Jets earned their 2nd powerfulness play of the nighttime erstwhile Devon Toews went to the container for tripping but again Winnipeg could not person arsenic the people stayed 1-0 heading to the third.

The Jets outshot the Avalanche 10-9 successful the 2nd but it was Colorado who was the stronger squad aboriginal successful the third, hemming the Jets successful their ain extremity for agelong stretches astatine a time.

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Cale Makar had a large accidental to level the people a fewer minutes into the 3rd disconnected a rebound but Hellebuyck made a fantastic close pad prevention to support the slate clean.

The Jets came highly adjacent to padding their pb with little than six minutes to spell erstwhile Mason Appleton acceptable up Nikolaj Ehlers astatine the broadside of the nett but Georgiev slid crossed to rob Ehlers with the glove.

With conscionable nether 3 minutes left, Colorado pulled Georgiev for an other attacker and with 70 seconds remaining, Josh Morrissey took a holding penalty, giving the Avalanche an fantabulous accidental to necktie the people late.

But Hellebuyck and the 4 punishment killers locked it down to unafraid the triumph arsenic the Jets became the 2nd squad successful NHL past to triumph 13 of its archetypal 14 games successful a season.

Colorado outshot the Jets 17-4 successful the last framework and 35-28 for the game.

Winnipeg volition look to support piling up wins erstwhile they big the Dallas Stars Saturday astatine 2 p.m. Pregame sum connected Power 97 starts astatine noon.