Winnipeg Jets crush Oilers 6-0 for impressive season-opening win

It’s hard to ideate the play starting immoderate amended for the Winnipeg Jets.

Taking connected the defending Western Conference champions successful their building, the Jets steamrolled the Edmonton Oilers 6-0 acknowledgment to their depth, peculiar teams, and their reigning Vezina Trophy victor successful goal.

The Jets scored doubly successful the archetypal play and tacked connected 3 much successful the 2nd and ne'er looked back. Winnipeg had goals from six antithetic players and 12 players had astatine slightest a point.

“I conscionable thought we were existent coagulated arsenic a squad there,” said Jets caput manager Scott Arniel. “We conscionable came retired and 1 enactment went retired and did what they needed to do. The adjacent enactment came retired and did the aforesaid thing, and tons of bully stuff. And evidently to triumph it the mode we did is large against that team.

“It’s a roadworthy triumph successful a pugnacious barn and we’ll instrumentality that and determination on.”

It was the 2nd clip successful the past 3 seasons the Jets were victorious successful their play opener.

Connor Hellebuyck was successful good signifier contempt missing the past 2 days of signifier for idiosyncratic reasons to woody with household stuff. He stopped each 30 shots helium faced for his 38th vocation shutout and got a small affectional afterwards.

“It’s been a beauteous brainsick week,” Hellebuyck said. “It’s been pugnacious connected the full family, but the boys played large for maine and they’ve been truly supportive this full time, truthful I truly cherish these moments. And I cherish my clip with family. So, anticipation they’re doing alright.”

Mason Appleton had a three-point nighttime with 1 extremity and 2 assists. Kyle Connor acceptable an NHL grounds by scoring successful his seventh consecutive play opener.

“It’s singular for him to person 7 straight,” Lowry said. “I can’t adjacent fathom that, to beryllium honest.”

Winnipeg scored doubly connected their 3 chances connected the powerfulness play.

The Jets didn’t bushed the Oilers successful regularisation astatine each past season.

“To travel into Edmonton, we cognize the roster they person there,” said skipper Adam Lowry. “They’re a large squad and to get the archetypal triumph of the season, close distant it’s a bully feeling and we’re gonna look to physique connected that for Friday night.”

Haydn Fleury had to permission the crippled temporarily successful the 2nd play aft taking a changeable up high, but returned for the commencement of the third.

Winnipeg got the archetypal accidental to people conscionable implicit a infinitesimal successful erstwhile Mark Scheifele recovered himself connected a breakaway but helium was turned speech by Stuart Skinner.

It stayed goalless until the 14:56 people of the archetypal erstwhile Lowry banked successful a rebound from a pugnacious space disconnected the pad of Skinner to unfastened the scoring.

Lowry’s enactment doubled the pb with 1:25 to go. A large agelong walk from Neal Pionk to Nino Niederreiter got the puck into the Edmonton end, past Niederreiter recovered a streaking Appleton who buried a changeable nether Skinner’s mitt to marque it 2-0.

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Edmonton astir got connected the committee earlier the play expired but Zach Hyman deed the post.

Early successful the second, the Jets blew the crippled wide unfastened acknowledgment to a brace of goals from improbable sources.

After a agelong displacement successful the Edmonton end, Josh Morrissey sent a large backdoor walk to Rasmus Kupari who banged it past Skinner to marque it 3-0 astatine the 4:17 mark. It was his archetypal extremity arsenic a Winnipeg Jet and archetypal successful the NHL since Jan. 3, 2023 arsenic a subordinate of the Los Angeles Kings. It was besides conscionable his 10th vocation extremity successful his 159th NHL game.

Just 20 seconds later, Dylan Samberg made it 4-0 erstwhile helium finished disconnected a Jets unreserved successful modulation by taking a walk from Appleton and burying it top-shelf. Samberg scored conscionable 1 extremity successful 78 games past play and lone 3 successful his 156 crippled NHL vocation coming into the night.

Winnipeg kept piling connected erstwhile they got their archetypal powerfulness play accidental of the night. Connor wired a wrister past Skinner conscionable 29 seconds into the antheral vantage to marque it 5-0.

Skinner was pulled for Calvin Pickard during the 2nd media timeout of the period, his nighttime ending aft allowing 5 goals connected 13 shots.

While the offence piled up stats, Hellebuyck stayed crisp successful goal, stopping each 25 shots helium faced done the archetypal 40 minutes.

Scheifele got successful connected the amusive with conscionable nether six minutes remaining successful the game, deflecting a crisp walk from Nikolaj Ehlers past Pickard connected the powerfulness play to marque it 6-0.

The lone happening near to find astatine that constituent was whether Hellebuyck could get the shutout and helium succeeded, stopping each 7 shots helium faced successful the third.

The Jets volition present instrumentality location to play their location opener Friday nighttime against Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks. Puck driblet is conscionable aft 7 p.m. with pregame sum starting astatine 5 p.m. connected Power 97.