Playing of their last house recreation earlier than the vacation break, the Winnipeg Jets have been hoping to provide their followers an early Christmas present.
Instead, they couldn’t maintain onto a late lead, falling to the Ottawa Senators 3-2 in additional time Monday night time.
Ottawa had one of the best seems to attain early within the recreation, incomes a pair of energy performs however couldn’t convert. Lightly-used fourth liner Kurtis MacDermid practically scored as properly when his slap shot beat Connor Hellebuyck however rang off the iron.
Winnipeg practically obtained on the board first when Nino Niederreiter took a stab at a unfastened puck close to the Ottawa crease however Linus Ullmark made a sprawling pad save to maintain it out.
The Jets additionally failed on an influence play look late within the first as each groups completed the opening interval with seven pictures on purpose.
The parade to the penalty field continued within the second as each groups took penalties within the opening 5 minutes however neither facet may generate a lot of something on the person benefit.
The recreation opened up a bit close to the halfway level of the interval with the groups going up and down the ice, every having an honest likelihood or two earlier than the Senators opened the scoring on the 10:47 mark.
Winnipeg’s prime line misplaced management of the puck within the Ottawa finish as Josh Morrissey went off for a change. MacDermid carried the puck into the Winnipeg finish as Luke Schenn got here off the bench and into the play, reducing towards MacDermid.
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Mark Scheifele additionally skated in that path, however Neal Pionk was already there, so with three gamers on one facet of the ice, Nick Cousins discovered himself huge open on the opposite facet. MacDermid hit him with a move and Cousins made no mistake, trickling a shot by Hellebuyck for his fifth of the season.
Just beneath 5 minutes later, the Jets answered. After a protracted shift within the Ottawa finish, Kyle Connor fed Neal Pionk on the level for a one-timer. Pionk’s shot was a knuckler, taking a dive and bouncing off the ice en path to the web, fluttering previous a fooled Ullmark for his second of the season.
Winnipeg’s blue line continued to provide the offence with 1:25 to go within the second. Ottawa turned the puck over within the impartial zone because of a success by Morgan Barron, permitting Gabriel Vilardi to take the puck into the Senators’ finish. He gave it to Barron as he skated into the zone, who in flip slipped it throughout to Logan Stanley, leaping up into the play.
He beat Ullmark with a wrister (that most likely ought to have been stopped) to provide the Jets their first lead of the night time.
For Stanley, it was the continuation of a shocking goal-scoring binge, a 3rd purpose in his final 4 video games and a sixth this season after scoring no multiple in every of his first 5 seasons within the NHL. It additionally moved him right into a tie (with three forwards) for fourth on the group in objectives scored this season.
Ottawa wound up outshooting Winnipeg 12-10 within the second however the Jets took the 2-1 lead into the third.
Tim Stutzle practically tied the sport within the third when he despatched a backhand on web however it glanced off the shaft of Hellebuyck’s stick and careened into the nook.
Winnipeg did job of minimizing possibilities for the Senators earlier than Ottawa pulled Ullmark with 2:40 on the clock, and with 1:54 left on the clock, the Sens drew stage.
The Jets tried and did not clear the puck, with Stutzle taking the failed clear and discovering Jake Sanderson in the course of the ice on the level. He created some area for himself with a pleasant shot faux earlier than sending a shot on purpose.
Mark Scheifele, standing outdoors of the taking pictures lane, caught his stick within the air to try to knock it down. Instead, the shot knocked the stick of Scheifele out of his palms and the deflection prompted the puck to vary instructions and flutter previous Hellebuyck to tie the sport.
Both groups had nice possibilities within the opening minute of additional time, with one of the best coming off the stick on Connor on a 2-on-1 with Scheifele however Ullmark made a incredible save.
That proved giant as a result of, later within the additional session, Sanderson grabbed the puck in his personal finish and despatched a move off the boards that sprung a 2-on-1. Stutzle took the move, skated into the Winnipeg finish and despatched an ideal feed throughout to Brady Tkachuk that the Ottawa captain blasted previous Hellebuyck to win the sport.
Hellebuyck obtained saddled with the loss, making 28 saves in defeat whereas Ullmark stopped 23 pictures in victory.
The Jets nonetheless haven’t received back-to-back video games since beating the Flames Nov. 15 and the Blue Jackets Nov. 18.
Winnipeg will now head out on a three-game street journey that begins in St. Louis on Wednesday. Pregame protection on 680 CJOB begins simply after 5 p.m with the puck dropping simply after 7 p.m.
