{"id":528870,"date":"2026-03-29T06:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/528870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:09:32","slug":"jets-help-playoff-hopes-with-win-over-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/528870\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets help playoff hopes with win over Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Cole Perfetti scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> kept their postseason hopes alive with a 4-2 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"colorado-avalanche\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves, Gabriel Vilardi had a goal and an assist, and Cole Koepke and Kyle O\u2019Connor scored for Winnipeg. The Jets, with 74 points, are three behind Nashville for the second wild-card in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg earned a split of the season series and won the second game of the home-and-home between the teams. Colorado won in Winnipeg, 3-2, on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Nelson and Parker Kelly scored for Colorado, which had its four-game winning streak snapped. The Avalanche loss, combined with Dallas\u2019 win at Pittsburgh, cut their Central Division lead over the Stars to seven points.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado, which leads the NHL with 106 points, has played one less game than Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche carried the play for much of the third but the Jets got the go-ahead goal at 14:49 when\u00a0Perfetti redirected Jacob Bryon\u2019s shot\u00a0from the point past a screened Mackenzie Blackwood.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado unsuccessfully challenged that Jonathan Toews interfered with Blackwood. O\u2019Connor sealed it with an empty-net goal at 17:51, his 33rd of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi\u00a0scored his 28th goal\u00a03:51 into the game and Nelson\u00a0tied it on a redirect\u00a0for his 33rd of the season midway through the first.<\/p>\n<p>Cale Makar had the primary assist on Nelson\u2019s goal, his 52nd of the season. It was the 500th point of his career since debuting with the Avalanche in 2019. He reached the total in his 467th career game, fourth fastest among defensemen in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Koepke\u00a0put the Jets back in front\u00a02:14 into the second period but Kelly\u00a0tied it at 18:05\u00a0with his career-best 17th of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: At Chicago on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: Host Calgary on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Cole Perfetti scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, and the Winnipeg Jets kept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-528870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116310977269874640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528870","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=528870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}