Winnipeg Jets fall short in Tampa Bay 4-1 for second loss of season

The Winnipeg Jets were bound to suffer again eventually.

More than 2 weeks aft their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season, the Jets were intelligibly the second-best squad connected the crystal successful a 4-1 nonaccomplishment successful Tampa Bay Thursday night, dropping their grounds to 15-2 and snapping their seven-game triumph streak.

The Lightning, who were playing their archetypal crippled successful a week, were the stronger squad close retired of the gross and opened the scoring aft a astir six-minute tally of play without a whistle.

After Winnipeg turned the puck implicit astatine the Tampa Bay blueline, Nick Paul carried the puck up the crystal and into the Jets’ end, patiently waiting for a streaking Jake Guentzel to look into the slot. He received a walk from Paul, past wired it past Eric Comrie to marque it 1-0 astatine the 7:24 mark.

The Jets started to propulsion backmost a spot arsenic the play rolled along, earning a powerfulness play with conscionable nether a infinitesimal near successful the framework but they didn’t negociate to get a changeable connected goal.

Tampa Bay carried a 10-7 borderline successful shots connected extremity into the 2nd and rapidly built connected their lead.

After cycling the puck astir the Winnipeg end, the Lightning got the puck to Darren Raddysh astatine the close point, who spotted Brandon Hagel cutting to the net. He got a cleanable walk and got successful adjacent connected Comrie earlier roofing it to marque it 2-0 conscionable 3:07 into the second.

Moments later, Dylan DeMelo took a hooking punishment and the Lightning, who had yet to people a powerfulness play extremity connected location crystal this season, wasted small clip making it 3-0 arsenic Anthony Cirelli tipped a Victor Hedman constituent changeable past Comrie astatine the 4:07 mark.

Less than 3 minutes later, the Jets got connected the committee acknowledgment to a spot of a fluky goal. Colin Miller’s changeable from the constituent glanced disconnected the skate of Adam Lowry aft helium got upended adjacent the crease and roseate implicit the limb of Andrei Vasilevskiy to marque it 3-1.

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Winnipeg earned their 2nd powerfulness play of the nighttime little than 2 minutes aboriginal but for the 2nd clip successful the game, the league’s apical powerfulness play portion failed to registry a changeable connected goal.

Shots connected extremity favoured Tampa Bay successful the 2nd play 13-6 and for the archetypal 40 minutes, the Lightning had a 23-13 edge.

Winnipeg pushed successful the 3rd to effort and get backmost into the crippled but couldn’t get different 1 past Vasilevskiy, failing connected a brace of powerfulness plays successful the last frame.

Comrie was pulled for an other attacker with conscionable implicit 2 minutes to spell and it didn’t pb to overmuch earlier Guentzel potted his 2nd of the nighttime into the bare nett with 21 seconds to go.

Comrie turned speech 25 shots successful his archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season.

Winnipeg volition look to commencement a caller triumph streak Saturday erstwhile they sojourn the Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers. Pregame sum connected 680 CJOB starts astatine 4 p.m. with crippled enactment opening conscionable aft 6 p.m.