Vilardi puts up 4 points as Jets cool off Flames 5-2

Gabriel Vilardi scored 2 goals and added 2 assists to pb the Winnipeg Jets to a 5-2 triumph implicit the Calgary Flames connected Sunday.

Mark Scheifele, Mason Appleton and Kyle Connor besides scored for the Jets.

Nazem Kadri and MacKenzie Weegar replied for the Flames.

Eric Comrie made 20 saves for Winnipeg (34-14-3) astatine Canada Life Centre to grounds his archetypal triumph successful 9 games.

Dan Vladar stopped 22 shots for Calgary (23-17-7).

After Calgary pulled to wrong 4-2, Scheifele scored connected the powerfulness play to springiness the Jets a 5-2 cushion.

Less than 2 minutes aft the Jets had taken a 4-1 lead, Calgary’s Kadri converted a walk from Jake Bean from down the nett and slid the puck past Comrie to trim the shortage to 4-2.

Vilardi had fixed Winnipeg a 4-1 pb during a powerfulness play aboriginal successful the 3rd period. With the Flames serving a punishment for excessively galore men, Vilardi took a walk from Connor successful beforehand of Vladar, past lifted the puck implicit the goalie. Nikolaj Ehlers besides assisted.

Vilardi had restored Winnipeg’s two-goal borderline erstwhile helium took a backhand walk from Dylan Samberg and fired a changeable past Vladar with 10 seconds near successful the 2nd period. Scheifele besides assisted.

Weegar pulled Calgary to wrong 2-1 with a power-play extremity precocious successful the 2nd period. With Appleton disconnected for cross-checking, Weegar’s wicked constituent changeable bushed a screened Comrie. Yegor Sharangovich and Jonathan Huberdeau assisted.

Appleton had fixed the Jets a 2-0 pb erstwhile helium intercepted a walk successful beforehand of Vladar aft a Logan Stanley rebound and fired the puck into the unfastened nett for an unassisted marker.

Connor opened the scoring with a superb idiosyncratic play. He took a walk from David Gustafsson that defected disconnected Vilardi, past juked astir a Flames defenceman, past deked Vladar and bushed him with a backhand shot.

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Takeaways

Jets: Pounced connected the Flames successful the archetypal period, outshooting them 8-1 earlier they got 2 shots connected extremity during a precocious powerfulness play. They survived a pushback by the Flames successful the 2nd period, past took a 3-1 pb heading into the last frame.

Flames: Rebounded from a lacklustre archetypal play and outshot the Jets 12-10 and scored precocious successful the period, but lagged toward the extremity erstwhile Winnipeg scored with 10 seconds near to instrumentality a 3-1 pb into the 3rd period. Then they bushed successful the third.

Key moment

After the Flames had pulled to wrong 4-2, Scheifele scored connected the powerfulness play to springiness Winnipeg a three-goal cushion.

Key stat

Winnipeg’s league-leading powerfulness play scored 2 goals.

Up next

Flames: Host the Washington Capitals connected Tuesday.

Jets: Visit the Montreal Canadiens connected Tuesday.