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“It’s going to come (if) we continue doing the right things, competing and going to the net. It was great to see some guys get rewarded on Saturday night,” Schenn said.
Published Nov 30, 2025 • 3 minute read
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Winnipeg Jets right wing Nino Niederreiter (62) celebrates his empty net goal with Adam Lowry (17) during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Predators, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Nashville. Photo by George Walker /AP PhotoArticle content
Of note for the win-starved Winnipeg Jets, the secondary scorers showed up to play in a rather mighty way on Saturday.
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Ten players chipped in with at least one point as the Jets snapped a four-game slide in a 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators.
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“We have got so many guys who have produced offensively for a long time in this league, and guys are going to go through sort of ups and downs throughout the course of the season,” Jets defenceman Luke Schenn told reporters.
During the losing skid, the club lost twice to the Carolina Hurricanes and once each to the Minnesota Wild and the Washington Capitals.
Schenn chipped in with two assists in the victory. The last time Schenn had a multi-point game was back in February of 2023.
More secondary scoring came from another unlikely candidate in Dylan Samberg. For the first time in his NHL career, Samberg had a three-point night, notching three assists.
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During the now vanquished losing skid, Gabe Vilardi and Mark Scheifele were the only forwards to score a goal. Vilardi scored four times and Scheifele netted a pair. Vilardi also scored against the Predators, giving him five goals in his past five games. Prior to the Nashville game, the last forward to find the back of the net was Adam Lowry against Columbus on Nov. 11.
“You’ve just got to continue to push through and work at it,” Schenn said. “It’s going to come (if) we continue doing the right things, competing and going to the net. It was great to see some guys get rewarded on Saturday night.”
Among those ‘rewarded’ with slump-busting goals were Nino Niederreiter and Cole Perfetti.
Niederreiter scored his first goal in seven games when he beat Justus Annunen to the short side at 19:06 of the first period. The Swiss winger also scored into the empty net at 19:39 of the third period.
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“We are trying to play the right way, and things end up being in your own net, and you get frustrated and tonight was great to get a couple of goals from the depth,” he said.
Perfetti found his slump-buster at 12:18 of the second period. It was his first goal in nine games. He had his share of chances in the game against the Hurricanes on Friday. He was thwarted on a breakaway opportunity and later whiffed on a jam play at the net.
Even his goal against Nashville was an excuse-me swing. Perfetti didn’t get much power behind the shot, but the puck squeezed through for his second of the season. After the goal, he looked skyward. It was hard to tell if his facial expression was one of relief or frustration at whiffing on the clear-cut opportunity in the low slot.
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According to Natural Stat Trick, Perfetti had five high-danger chances in the 5-2 loss to Carolina and one high-danger chance against the Predators.
“Our whole bench there, everybody jumped up on that one,” head coach Scott Arniel said. “It was a great play with Jonathan Toews getting in on it first and then the east-west behind the net to Vladdy (Namestnikov). Like we said, if you’re not scoring goals, make sure you get close to the net and that’s exactly where he went. However it went in, it went in.”
But the scoring, both goals and assists, watch still continues for Gustav Nyquist, Namestnikov, Tanner Pearson and Lowry, but to name a few of the players mired in lengthy goal-scoring slumps.
Nyquist is looking for his first marker in 19 games; Namestnikov has zero goals in his last 12 games; Pearson has one goal in his last 18 games, and Lowry has one tally in a dozen games played.
The next opportunity to simultaneously enhance both the win streak and the secondary scoring comes Monday night against the Buffalo Sabres.
“We wanted to win one in a row, so that’s the first one,” Arniel said. The biggest thing for us is the lessons that we learn from not being consistent with our shifts, and how it’s being consistent, with this game that we played tonight, that that’s how we (should play in) Buffalo.”
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