Niederreiter scores twice in milestone game as Winnipeg Jets win again

The Winnipeg Jets cannot beryllium stopped.

The NHL’s apical squad implicit the archetypal period of the 2024-25 play added different 2 points to their ledger Tuesday night, downing the Utah Hockey Club 3-0 successful their first-ever travel to Manitoba.

Winnipeg controlled the enactment for the bulk of the archetypal period, outshooting Utah 12-6 contempt Utah having the lone powerfulness play of the play but neither squad could find the backmost of the nett successful the opening 20 minutes.

The stalemate continued done overmuch of the 2nd arsenic each squad failed to make high-quality chances contempt aggregate powerfulness play opportunities.

Winnipeg killed disconnected some Utah powerfulness plays successful the 2nd and failed connected their ain aboriginal successful the play but successful the closing minutes, they yet cashed in.

With the apical portion inactive connected the crystal contempt Dylan Guenther’s punishment astir expiring, they were struggling to link connected passes but kept the puck successful the Utah extremity earlier breaking through. Mark Scheifele fed Josh Morrissey for a one-timer that was tipped by Gabriel Vilardi past Karel Vejmelka to unfastened the scoring with 2:03 near successful the second.

Winnipeg carried the 1-0 pb into the 2nd intermission arsenic good arsenic a 22-13 borderline successful shots connected goal.

After a reasonably dull commencement to the 3rd period, Nino Niederreiter made it 2-0 astatine the 7:30 mark. With Adam Lowry drafting a defender to him arsenic helium chopped done the slot, Mason Appleton fed the trailing Niederreiter who made a bully determination connected Vejmelka earlier tucking it successful for his sixth extremity of the season, a large infinitesimal arsenic helium played successful his 900th vocation NHL game.

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Not agelong aft the Niederreiter goal, Logan Stanley was called for hooking, sending Utah to their 4th powerfulness play of the nighttime but erstwhile again the Jets killed it off.

Utah pulled Vejmelka for an other attacker with conscionable implicit 3 minutes near but it didn’t instrumentality agelong for Winnipeg to get possession of the puck and for Niederreiter to cookware his 2nd of the nighttime to seal the win.

Kyle Connor astir extended his season-opening constituent streak to 13 games successful the last infinitesimal but helium deed the wrong of the station from adjacent range.

Connor Hellebuyck lone had to crook speech 21 shots to gain his 2nd shutout of the play and 39th of his career.

The Jets volition look to support rolling Thursday nighttime erstwhile they big Colorado successful a rematch of their archetypal circular playoff bid from the spring.