{"id":265691,"date":"2025-10-25T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/265691\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:46:49","slug":"jets-use-power-play-to-soar-past-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/265691\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets use power play to soar past Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Gabriel Vilardi scored had a goal and assist to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a hard-fought 5-3 triumph over the Calgary Flames on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Iafallo, Vladislav Namestnikov, Kyle Connor and Jonathan Toews also scored for the Jets. Josh Morrissey chipped in with three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Coleman, Mikael Backlund and Nazem Kadri replied for Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames are now winless in their last eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Backup netminder Eric Comrie made 30 saves for Winnipeg (5-1-0) before 13,917 fans at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Wolf stopped 27 shots for Calgary (1-7-1).<\/p>\n<p>Calgary had pulled to within 4-3 almost midway through the third period. Coleman, who was set up alone in front of Comrie by Backlund, made no mistake in getting the puck past him. The Jets then held on for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Calgary Flames Foundation announces $2.2 million for charities ahead of home opener'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761389207_136_FLAMES_LOGO_VMS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t4:22<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalgary Flames Foundation announces $2.2 million for charities ahead of home opener\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>The Jets took a 4-2 lead into the third period when Iafallo scored on the power play with 1:10 left in the second, converting a nifty pass from Vilardi. Mark Scheifele also assisted.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary had pulled to within 3-2 when Backlund was sent in alone on Comrie by Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi upped the lead to 3-1 on the power play midway through the middle frame, backhanding a shot past Wolf from the side of the net on a setup from Scheifele. Morrissey also assisted.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly 65 seconds after Winnipeg had tied the score, Toews gave the Jets a 2-1 lead when he deflected a Morrissey pass past Wolf on his doorstep. Calgary challenged for goalie interference but lost and was penalized.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets knotted the score at 1-1 at 5:19 of the second. Connor\u2019s one-timer on a perfect pass from Morrissey on a 2-on-1 beat Wolf, who got a piece of the shot. Dylan DeMelo also assisted.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Calgary opened the scoring early in the first period on their second straight power play. With DeMelo off for tripping, Kadri\u2019s one-timer beat Comrie cleanly on a setup from Morgan Frost. 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But they came to life in the second, outscoring Calgary 4-1 and outshooting the Flames 16-9.<\/p>\n<p>Flames: After outworking the Jets in the first period, taking a 1-0 lead, they got into penalty trouble in the second, allowing two power-play goals and a total of four in the second 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>After the Jets finally snapped a four-period goalless streak when Connor scored in the second, Toews gave Winnipeg a 2-1 lead when he deflected a Morrissey pass past Wolf. The Flames then lost their challenge for goalie interference. Winnipeg then upped the score to 3-1 and 4-2 before the period ended.<\/p>\n<p>KEY STAT<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg scored two power-play goals in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Flames: Host the New York Rangers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host the Utah Mammoth on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Gabriel Vilardi scored had a goal and assist to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a hard-fought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[26,14125,5,78,380,285,4,43,77,386,18,387,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-265691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-calgary-sports","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-jets-hockey","13":"tag-national-hockey-league","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-winnipeg","17":"tag-winnipeg-hockey","18":"tag-winnipeg-jets","19":"tag-winnipeg-sports","20":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115434412083540252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}