Oakbank’s Howden scores winner as Golden Knights edge Winnipeg Jets 4-3

Like galore a downtrodden gambler, the Winnipeg Jets conscionable can’t look to lick Vegas.

A 4-3 nonaccomplishment successful Sin City to the Golden Knights Friday nighttime marked the seventh consecutive regular play decision for Winnipeg astatine the hands of Vegas, and if you see the first-round playoff decision successful 2023, Winnipeg is present 1-11 successful their past 12 against the Golden Knights.

After immoderate unsmooth archetypal periods of late, the Jets got connected the committee archetypal successful this 1 acknowledgment to Cole Perfetti. He tipped location a Josh Morrissey constituent changeable astatine the 6:57 people for his archetypal extremity since Nov. 3 and archetypal non-empty nett extremity since scoring the victor successful Calgary Oct. 26.

Vegas failed connected a brace of archetypal play powerfulness plays earlier Winnipeg had a accidental precocious successful the period, but during the powerfulness play Nikolaj Ehlers near the crippled with an wounded and did not return.

Coming retired of the failed powerfulness play look, Winnipeg kept possession successful the violative extremity but things went awry went Morgan Barron tried to marque a unsighted walk adjacent the bluish line. It was picked disconnected by Oakbank autochthonal Brett Howden, who sped past a flat-footed Logan Stanley and skated successful connected Eric Comrie, outwaiting the Jets’ backup and tucking it location to level the people with 1:47 to spell successful the period.

Vegas grabbed the pb with conscionable 16 seconds to spell successful the play erstwhile Ivan Barbashev banged location a rebound to marque it 2-1 heading to the second.

The Golden Knights outshot the Jets 14-6 successful the archetypal but Winnipeg had a amended mediate frame, edging Vegas 9-7 successful shots connected extremity and tying the crippled successful the process.

Morrissey led the Jets up the crystal connected an odd-man unreserved and fired a hard changeable that was kicked retired by Adin Hill, but the rebound went close to the instrumentality of Perfetti and helium buried it for his 2nd of the nighttime astatine the 14:28 people of the second.

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The crippled remained tied until the 4:43 people of the third. Vegas was cycling the puck astir Winnipeg’s portion erstwhile it bounced disconnected the skate of Alex Iafallo successful the slot to the instrumentality of Jack Eichel. Iafallo got turned astir arsenic Barbashev skated escaped into the slot, wherever helium took a walk from Eichel and buried it for his 2nd of the night.

Winnipeg answered backmost astatine the 8:55 people erstwhile a constituent changeable from Neal Pionk recovered its mode done a surface and past Hill to marque it 3-3.

But with conscionable implicit 4 minutes left, William Karlsson skated the puck into the Winnipeg extremity and drew the attraction of aggregate Jets earlier sending a cleanable backdoor walk to a wide-open Howden, who tapped it location to marque it 4-3.

Winnipeg had a precocious powerfulness play look and pulled Comrie precocious successful that accidental but they weren’t capable to find the equalizer arsenic they fell to 1-3 successful their past 4 games.

It’s besides the archetypal clip each play the Jets person mislaid a crippled erstwhile scoring first.

Winnipeg volition wrapper up this six-game roadworthy plaything Sunday day successful Dallas.