Toews scores his first as Winnipeg Jets come back to beat Flames 2-1 – Winnipeg

For the first time in two and a half years, Jonathan Toews has scored a goal in the NHL.

The 37-year-old tallied his first goal with his hometown team, part of a third period comeback as the Winnipeg Jets downed the Calgary Flames 2-1 Monday night, extending their win streak to five games.

After Toews tied the game earlier in the third period, Mark Scheifele scored the game winning goal off an odd man rush with a little under five minutes left in regulation to break a 1-1 deadlock, while handing the Flames their sixth loss in a row.

“We were a lot better in the third period,” said Jets head coach Scott Arniel. “We didn’t get many scoring chances, but obviously JT scoring the one, and then Schife, that was a big one.”

In his sixth game with his new team, Toews redirected in a point shot at the start of the final frame to get the Jets on the scoreboard.

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“These last few games I feel like I’m really starting to settle in,” said Toews. “All the little details of our team game starting to finally become second nature. I can go out there and maybe not overthink but start to relax with the puck and feel a little more comfortable.”

Toews also won 15 of his 21 faceoffs and with his first goal, Toews now has three points in his last two games.

“Happy for him,” said Arniel. “Get that one out of the way. I think his game has been getting better every game and had a great one the other night with the two assists. It’s probably a big weight off his shoulders.”

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“We were so pumped,” Scheifele said. “We were ecstatic for him. Obviously, he’s gonna be happy. He’s been playing awesome for us. He’s done so many good things since he’s been here and to see him get rewarded with a big goal for us is huge.”

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Scheifele now has seven goals in just the first six games. He has at least a point in every contest and is now on a five-game goal streak.

The Jets have only allowed eight goals over their last five games.

The game was dominated by special teams with both clubs getting five chances on the man advantage with the Jets scoring the only power play goal of the night.

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“The flow was really, really weird,” said Scheifele. “But that’s the way the game is gonna go sometimes and you just go to go with it. Obviously, penalty kill was great, we got a great power play goal by Tazer there, and not every game is gonna go the way you want it to, but happy to get the win.”

The Jets have still only allowed one power play goal all season and have killed off 23 straight penalties successfully going all the way back to the season opener.

Neither team scored in the first, thanks in large part to the Jets’ penalty kill. Coming into the game having killed 18 in a row, dating back to their opening game against Dallas, the Jets killed off a pair of penalties in the first as well as another that carried over into the second.

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In that middle frame, it was Winnipeg’s turn to falter with the man advantage, failing to convert on three opportunities. After 40 minutes, both teams were 0-for-4 on the power play.

But the Flames were able to draw first blood at even strength at the 13:22 mark of the second.

Calgary’s fourth line won a battle for the puck below the goal line before Adam Klapka slid the puck back to the point. Rasmus Andersson let a shot go from the blue line that eluded Connor Hellebuyck thanks in large part to a perfect net-front screen from Ryan Lomberg.

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Winnipeg held a slight 22-21 edge in shots on goal through 40 minutes and thanks to another power play early in the third, they finally cashed in to tie the game.

That’s when Toews deflected a point shot from Neal Pionk for his first goal since Apr. 13, 2023 to tie the game at the 2:41 mark of the third.

The game opened up over the course of the third with teams skating up and down the ice for minutes on end without a whistle.

After nearly three minutes without a break, Scheifele picked up the puck in his own end off a Hellebuyck save and skated it up the ice with Kyle Connor. Connor carried it into the Flames’ end along the wall as Scheifele cut to the net, and he steered home a pass from Connor that beat Dustin Wolf for his seventh of the season with 4:54 to go.

The Flames hit the post not long after and had a power play in the dying seconds but couldn’t beat Hellebuyck again as he turned aside 32 shots and was named the game’s first star.

Winnipeg will return home to try and make it six straight when they host Seattle on Thursday.

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