Winnipeg Jets<\/a> head coach Scott Arniel and his players weren\u2019t throwing their arms up in despair.<\/p>\nInstead, a 10th consecutive loss (0-6-4) after falling 4-3 to the Vegas Golden Knights in overtime on Tuesday will make the Jets dig in deeper and keep hoping there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to coach the games, you have to be in these games,\u201d Arniel said. \u201cYou just can\u2019t say, \u2018OK, it\u2019s been a hard year, it\u2019s been tough, we\u2019re not going to show up for the remaining 41 (games).\u2019 That\u2019s our job and that\u2019s what we have to do and I don\u2019t expect anything less.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose guys are driving each other and I\u2019m driving them as a coach. You\u2019re just finding a way to maybe, just maybe, there\u2019s a streak that\u2019s coming that we can jump on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The winless skid is the longest since the team moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta in 2011. The franchise record is 16 games (0-13-3) by the Thrashers in the first two months of 2000.<\/p>\n
Tomas Hertl, who was named to Czechia\u2019s Olympic team earlier in the day, scored at 4:47 of overtime on the power play to lift the Golden Knights to victory.<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner fired the puck and it bounced off Hertl as he was battling in front of goalie Connor Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg (15-21-5) held a 2-0 lead 12 minutes into the second period, and were ahead 3-2 with just under five minutes remaining in the third.<\/p>\n
Then Reilly Smith scored with 4:05 left to send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found quite a few of these now where it\u2019s back and forth or we\u2019re winning late and something happens,\u201d said Jets forward Cole Perfetti, whose first-period goal snapped a 16-game goal drought.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to stay even keel, just trying to play to the final buzzer and it\u2019s gonna turn for us. It has to, it\u2019s not gonna go like this all year. I mean, we\u2019re putting forth good efforts. There\u2019s lots in our game to be happy with, be proud of, and we\u2019re sucking with the results right now. It sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jets defenceman Dylan Samberg was called for tripping with 51 seconds left in overtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chances we had and the looks that we had, this is just Groundhog Day,\u201d Arniel said of the penalty. \u201cSomething happens, these things seem to happen a lot recently. Just gotta stay with it. I know it\u2019s hard to say and hard to hear, but we gotta find a way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Stone also scored on the power play for the Golden Knights (18-11-12), extending his goal-scoring streak to a career-high five games. Reilly Smith had a goal and Brett Howden also scored, giving him three goals in three straight games.<\/p>\n
Carter Hart stopped 17 shots for Vegas, which picked up its first win in six games (1-3-2).<\/p>\n
Jets defenceman Luke Schenn scored in his 1,100th career game and Kyle Connor gave Winnipeg its 3-2 lead. Gabriel Vilardi contributed a pair of assists and Hellebuyck made 27 saves in the Jets\u2019 first game of a five-game homestand.<\/p>\n
The Jets haven\u2019t won in regulation since a 5-1 victory over Washington on Dec. 13.<\/p>\n
Schenn said he\u2019s been through similar losing skids during his 18-year career, but not with such a talented group. It\u2019s why no one is throwing in the towel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrowing in the towel, that would be an insane thing to do with this much time left,\u201d said Schenn, who recorded his 45th career goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn top of that, guys are in this position for a reason and we\u2019re all pros. It\u2019s the NHL, you\u2019re never going to just roll over.\u201d<\/p>\n
HOSPITAL STAY<\/p>\n
The 13,951 fans at Canada Life Centre were silenced after Jets defenceman Haydn Fleury was taken off the ice on a stretcher with just under seven minutes remaining in the first period.<\/p>\n
Fleury was shoved by Vegas forward Keegan Kolesar near the bottom of the circle while clearing the puck and slid hard back first into the end boards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll be staying overnight (in hospital),\u201d Arniel said of Fleury. \u201cObviously, he\u2019s got a lot of tests to go through. He does have a broken nose.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a few different things that happened off it. A little bit of everything. He obviously slammed his back, his neck, hit his head, and then obviously his nose.\u201d<\/p>\n
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