In Winnipeg Friday, it was 30 for 30 for the Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck who made 30 saves for his 30th win over the season, 6-1, over the Colorado Avalanche.
Blake Wheeler struck twice to snap a long drought, in the win.
“With the amount of ice time I get, the guys I play with, the expectation would be that you’d score a goal once in a while,” Wheeler said after ending a 15-game goalless drought. “Sometimes it doesn’t happen. It’s a crazy game. I had 13 shots the last two games before this one, and one behind the goal line goes in. I don’t lose much sleep over it.”
Winnipeg improved to 34-15-9 and returned to the top spot in the Central Division albeit in a tie with the Nashville Predators.
“It’s nice to see a guy (Wheeler) get a payoff he deserves,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said. “He’s earned big point nights on his effort alone. He’s had a bunch that haven’t gone for him and those guys do [need to score]. He needs to score goals to keep that shooter’s confidence. He doesn’t change his game when he wasn’t scoring. He’s played so very well for a long time without putting a goal in the net and we were winning hockey games.”
The other four goals for the Jets came from  Kyle Connor, Andrew Copp, Patrik Laine and Nikolaj Ehlers.
The lone Avs goal came from Mikko Rantanen.
“We’re going to play the rest of the season almost every other day,” Rantanen said. “With the bad games, you’ve just got to get past it and learn from it tomorrow and watch some video. There’s not much you can do too much better against Edmonton Sunday so it’s going to be a huge game — bounce back.”
The Avs dropped to 31-22-4.
“Some of the mistakes we made tonight, we just can’t have them,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said. “Like we win a face-off on the power play and it ends up in the back of our net. It’s things like that I just didn’t think we were real crisp on, but the final 40 minutes, I liked the way we competed.”
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Jonathan Bernier got the start for Colorado but was removed form the match on a concussion protocol; he made 16 saves through 40 minutes.
Semyon Varlamov made six saves in relief.