Kyle Connor scored the winning goal 33 seconds into overtime as the visiting Winnipeg Jets edged the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Connor redirected a Mark Scheifele feed past Spencer Knight for his 34th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Josh Morrissey and Connor each had a goal and an assist, and Cole Perfetti and Isak Rosen also scored for the Jets (32-30-12, 76 points), who have won four of five and are 4-2-2 in their past eight.<\/p>\n
Scheifele had three assists in the win. Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves to improve to 23-8-1 against the Blackhawks \u2014 his highest win total against any franchise.<\/p>\n
Scheifele has nine points over his last three games (three goals, six assists). Connor has registered points in five straight games (three goals, four assists).<\/p>\n
Tyler Bertuzzi scored twice and Anton Frondell had the other tally for the Blackhawks (27-34-14, 68 points), who have dropped four straight (0-3-1).<\/p>\n
Ilya Mikheyev and Louis Crevier added two assists each, while Knight finished with 20 saves.<\/p>\n
Bertuzzi tied it 3-3 at 9:46 of the third period, one-timing a Mikheyev feed past Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg outshot Chicago 15-2 in the second period and led 3-2 heading into the third.<\/p>\n
Morrissey tied it 1-1 at 1:06 of the middle frame, skating off the blue line and beating Knight with a backhander. The goal extended the defenseman\u2019s point streak to five games (one goal, five assists).<\/p>\n
The Jets scored twice in a 38-second span to open a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg took its first lead of the night on a power play at 11:19 of the second as Perfetti finished off a 2-on-1 feed from Alex Iafallo.<\/p>\n
Rosen gave the Jets a two-goal cushion, banging home the rebound off Danil Zhilkin\u2019s shot at 11:57.<\/p>\n
The Blackhawks pulled within 3-2 when Bertuzzi beat Hellebuyck with a spinning backhand shot at 13:26 of the middle frame.<\/p>\n
Chicago opened the scoring 4:42 into the first as Frondell one-timed a Mikheyev feed for his first career NHL goal. The 18-year-old center has five points (one goal, four assists) through his first five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Connor scored the winning goal 33 seconds into overtime as the visiting Winnipeg Jets edged the Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-534560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116329143552831659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534560","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=534560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}