Jets wrap up preseason with 3-2 win in Calgary

At last, it’s clip for the existent hockey to begin.

The Winnipeg Jets finished disconnected their six-game preseason slate with a 3-2 triumph successful Calgary Friday night, with some teams icing lineups that volition intimately lucifer their opening nighttime units.

Calgary got the archetypal bully scoring chances of the game, hitting some the station and the crossbar successful the opening minutes.

Each squad past failed connected a powerfulness play accidental earlier the Jets opened the scoring astatine adjacent spot with conscionable implicit 5 minutes remaining successful the opening frame.

Haydn Fleury launched a backhand walk precocious successful the aerial down the ice, but Calgary couldn’t grip it arsenic it made its mode to their corner. Mason Appleton won a contention to the puck arsenic 2 defenders converged connected him and Adam Lowry, leaving Nino Niederreiter wide unfastened successful beforehand of Dan Vladar, and Niederreiter buried the puck disconnected a large provender from Appleton to unfastened the scoring.

Both teams managed to get 7 shots connected extremity successful the archetypal 20 minutes.

After each squad failed to person connected a 2nd powerfulness play accidental successful the second, Winnipeg doubled their pb with 4:01 to go.

Rasmus Kupari won an violative portion faceoff backmost to Colin Miller, whose snapshot done postulation eluded Vladar to marque it 2-0, the 3rd extremity of the preseason for Miller.

The Jets carried the two-goal vantage into the 3rd but it didn’t instrumentality agelong for Calgary to erase it.

Just 64 seconds into the frame, Jonathan Huberdeau deflected an innocent-looking constituent changeable from Daniil Miromanov done the legs of Connor Hellebuyck to marque it 2-1.

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Less past 3 minutes later, Mikael Backlund scored successful akin fashion, tipping a Kevin Bahl constituent changeable done Hellebuyck to level the score.

Calgary kept the unit connected arsenic the play rolled along, holding a 12-2 borderline successful shots connected extremity done the archetypal fractional of the 3rd but Hellebuyck kept the crippled even.

That proved important due to the fact that with 3:09 to go, a escaped puck disconnected a faceoff successful the Calgary extremity coiled up escaped successful the slot wherever Kyle Connor corralled it, enactment a juke connected Vladar and tucked it into the nett to springiness the Jets the pb again.

Connor past took a punishment with 1:28 left, giving the Flames a accidental to propulsion their goalie and spell 6-on-4 but the Jets managed to clasp onto the pb earlier the last horn sounded.

Hellebuyck finished the crippled with 31 saves, 18 of them successful the 3rd period, portion Winnipeg killed disconnected each 5 Flames powerfulness play chances.

The Jets volition statesman their regular play docket Wednesday nighttime successful Edmonton.