Perfetti’s three assists help Winnipeg Jets beat Blues for 6th straight win

The Winnipeg Jets’ torrid commencement to the play continued Tuesday night, downing the St. Louis Blues 3-2 to commencement a three-game roadworthy trip.

The Jets stay the past undefeated squad successful the NHL arsenic they moved to 6-0 to amended connected their champion commencement successful franchise history.

The Jets fell down for the 2nd consecutive game, but they responded with 3 consecutive goals successful the 2nd play to instrumentality the pb and Connor Hellebuyck made a game-saving halt successful the dying seconds to unafraid different victory.

“I thought our archetypal 8 minutes, we were a small spot dilatory retired of the gate,” said Jets caput manager Scott Arniel. “I thought we weren’t existent crisp connected what we were trying to bash and St. Louis, I thought were amended for the archetypal eight. Then we got going.

“I deliberation 2 teams kinda feeling each different retired a small bit. I thought we were truly bully successful the 2nd though.”

Nino Niederreiter, Kyle Connor, and Colin Miller scored goals for the Jets.

“Just kinda stuck with it,” said Connor. “Obviously, frustrating not being capable to capitalize connected immoderate of those chances with a batch of portion time. But stuck with it. Obviously, Miller’s extremity was immense for us, kinda got america going.

“Not getting frustrated was the biggest thing. A batch of these teams, it’s casual to conscionable accidental what the heck and play into that game. And I deliberation we did a bully job, with a mature radical to kinda instrumentality to what we bash best.”

Connor’s 2nd play extremity extended his constituent streak to six games and he’s scored a extremity successful 5 retired of six contests this year.

Cole Perfetti registered 3 assists and present has 7 points implicit his past 3 games.

“It decidedly feels good,” Perfetti said. “It’s bully for the assurance of the enactment and I deliberation we’re feeling it the past mates games here. A batch of it is coming from our bully D-zone. I deliberation we’re taking attraction of things successful our extremity of the crystal and truly trying to dial that in.”

The Jets person present won 10 of their past 11 meetings against the Blues and are 3-0 against Central Division opponents this season.

The Jets, with the NHL’s apical ranked powerfulness play, scored erstwhile connected 2 chances with the antheral vantage with Winnipeg’s 2nd powerfulness play portion connecting.

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“We’re not relying connected conscionable our apical unit,” Arniel said.

The Blues opened the scoring conscionable past the midway constituent of the archetypal erstwhile Brandon Saad banged location a rebound past Hellebuyck, giving St. Louis a 1-0 pb that they would transportation into the 2nd period.

Just implicit 8 minutes into the mediate frame, Winnipeg’s red-hot powerfulness play struck again arsenic Niederreiter tipped location a Neal Pionk constituent changeable to level the score.

The Jets took the pb little than six minutes later. Perfetti laid a cleanable walk to the constituent wherever Miller stepped into a howitzer that blew past Jordan Binnington astatine the 13:58 mark.

Connor made it 3-1 astatine the 17:40 mark, jumping disconnected the seat and taking a walk from Dylan Samberg earlier wiring it precocious past Binnington.

Winnipeg carried the two-goal pb into the 3rd but 5:15 into the period, Saad scored his 2nd of the crippled disconnected a rebound to chopped the pb to one.

Both goalies made respective bully saves to support the people the mode it was, with Hellebuyck making a toed prevention successful the last infinitesimal with Binnington pulled to unafraid the victory, Winnipeg’s 4th successful a enactment against the Blues and 12th in their past 14 meetings.

Hellebuyck stopped 26 shots successful earning the win.

The Jets present caput to Seattle wherever they volition look for a seventh consecutive triumph to commencement the play connected Thursday. Puck driblet is conscionable aft 9 p.m.