Josh Morrissey, Isak Rosen and Cole Perfetti also scored, and Mark Scheifele added three assists for the Jets, who were coming off\u00a0a 4-2 win\u00a0over the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n
The surging Jets are now just one point behind the Nashville Predators for the final wild-card playoff spot in the West.<\/p>\n
“The second point is huge,” Morrissey told reporters. “We’ve been fighting, clawing, scratching to try to get closer and closer to the playoff line. When it’s all said and done, I think it’s going to come right down to the wire. An extra point here and there is going the difference.”<\/p>\n
Tyler Bertuzzi scored twice and Anton Frondell also scored for Chicago, which has lost four in a row.<\/p>\n
Bertuzzi\u2019s wrist shot 9:46 into the third period sent the game to overtime.<\/p>\n
Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves in the win for the Jets. Spencer Knight made 20 saves for the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n
The Jets won 66.7 per cent of the faceoffs in the game.<\/p>\n
“There’s no quit in here, we’re going to fight right to the end,” Morrissey said.<\/p>\n
Jets: Visit Dallas on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: Start their final road trip of the season at Edmonton on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Morrissey, Isak Rosen and Cole Perfetti also scored, and Mark Scheifele added three assists for the Jets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231807,"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-534757","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\/116329769020451667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534757","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=534757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}