{"id":541792,"date":"2026-04-05T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:17:58","slug":"connor-scores-twice-as-jets-beat-blue-jackets-to-stay-in-playoff-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541792\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor scores twice as Jets beat Blue Jackets to stay in playoff hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Kyle Connor scored twice 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=\"noopener nofollow\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> overcame an early deficit to beat the Columbus 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping their playoff holes alive and sending the Blue Jackets to their sixth straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg moved to 78 points, a point out of the final wild-card spot in the crowded Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Connor tied it with 1:46 left in the second period, and scored the winner with 9:02 left in the third. He has 36 goals this season. Mark Scheifele had his 59th and 60th assists, and Connor Hellebuyck made 15 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Provorov scored for Columbus, which has lost four straight at home and remains outside the Eastern Conference wild-card picture. Jet Greaves stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Provorov scored on Columbus\u2019 first shot 1:17 into the game. It was the Blue Jackets\u2019 57th goal by a defenceman this season, a franchise record.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus then went more than 25 minutes without another shot as Winnipeg took control.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Host Seattle on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: At Detroit on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg Jets overcame an early deficit to beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541793,"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-541792","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\/116351361451266908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541792","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=541792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}