The Winnipeg Jets are one point out of the second Western Conference wild-card playoff spot as they prepare to face the host Dallas Stars on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The Jets (32-30-12, 76 points) have won four of their last five, including a 4-3 overtime road win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg got the victory despite blowing a 3-1 second-period lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to perform under pressure. I think that\u2019s the biggest thing,\u201d Jets captain Adam Lowry said. \u201cWe know every game is important. We came and talked about it after the first intermission. We don\u2019t have time to just squander points. We can\u2019t have these letdowns where we play one great game, and then come down and take a breath. So, it was a big win for us. You know, tight game. You\u2019ve got to give Chicago credit. I thought they played a pretty good game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor\u2019s 34th goal of the season, 33 seconds into OT, was set up by Mark Scheifele, who won the faceoff to open the extra period.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a lot of that over the years,\u201d Jets coach Scott Arniel said of Scheifele\u2019s pass in overtime. \u201cThat just, it\u2019s kind of been his whole season. When we need a big moment, a big play, he certainly responded. It was a heck of a play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor also had an assist, defenseman Josh Morrissey had a goal and an assist, Scheifele had three assists and Cole Perfetti and Isak Rosen also scored.<\/p>\n
Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves.<\/p>\n
The playoff-bound Stars (44-19-12, 100 points) are 1-4-2 in their last seven after losing 6-3 to the host Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Dallas, which opens a five-game homestand Thursday, went 1-2-1 on its four-game trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably our worst of the road trip,\u201d said Matt Duchene, who had a goal. \u201cWe\u2019re playing some desperate teams right now and they\u2019re playing at a level that we\u2019re not playing at right now, in terms of where our \u2018A\u2019 game is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Stars trailed 2-0 after the first period. Captain Jamie Benn and Duchene\u2019s markers in the second tied it 2-2. But the Bruins regained the lead just 13 seconds into the third period and scored twice more before Wyatt Johnston\u2019s power-play goal with 58 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot enough,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cWe\u2019re playing a lot of hungry teams who are fighting for their lives. You can\u2019t expect to be perfect and dominate a full 60 every day, but when we play our way more often than we don\u2019t we\u2019re really successful, so it\u2019s just a matter of doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnston also had an assist, Jason Robertson two and Jake Oettinger stopped 18 shots.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one of our better games,\u201d Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan said. \u201cThere are losses, and then there are losses where you get outplayed. In the first, they didn\u2019t come out and overwhelm us, but they were up 2-0. We just didn\u2019t do some things. We self-inflected some wounds, we lost some battles at key times and we got ourselves down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Bunting sat out with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets are one point out of the second Western Conference wild-card playoff spot as they prepare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-537440","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\/116337641053764136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537440","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=537440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}