Jets blow by Blues, 5-2 Connor scores double in win

In St Louis, Kyle Connor scored early in the middle frame, and even earlier than that i the third stanza to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 5-2 win over the Blues on Tuesday night.“Tonight, we were having fun out there,” the Jets’ Alex Iafallo said. “I think we just kind of laid it all on the line really and just using each other. … They’re amazing players, and I’m just trying to find the right spots to get them the puck and get the puck as well. It was a fun game tonight with them.”

The Jets took a 1-0 lead at 8:44 of the fist on a power play strike from Mark Scheifele .

“We were skating really well, pressuring their [defensemen],” Connor said of his line. “I thought we created a lot of turnovers in their own zone with good sticks. Once we got the puck back, we were just working to get open for each other.”

The Jets pushed the lead to 2-0 at 16:15 on a strike by Neal Pionk

The Blues’ Robert Thomas replied 40 seconds later with a marker to trim the deficit to 2-1 -at 16:55

Then Blues dropped to 5-5-1.

Connor then scored off the power play at 4:34 of the middle frame for a 3-1 lead to Winnipeg.

His double came 62 seconds gone in the third for a 4-1 advantage to the Jets.

St Louis got one back on a marker frm Brayden Schenn at 8:08  for a 4-2 deficit for the Blues.

“The second period, we needed more,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “We needed to come out with a real purpose in the second period and we didn’t do that. To me, that’s the difference in the game.

“There are opportunities we could have capitalized on, [but] we didn’t. But still though, I’m going to go back to the second period, it’s not good enough.”

Cole Perfetti added an empty=net goal with less than three left in the game for the 5-2 final.

Jordan Binnington made 32 saves in the loss.

“I’m just awful. I’m just awful all season,” the Blues’ Pavel Buchnevich said. “I don’t know what to say. Guys create chances for me, but I can’t finish. I don’t know. Hopefully one [will] go in. I just have to play better and help the team. Now I don’t create anything, doesn’t really help the team. Got to find a way.”