In Winnipeg, the Jets scored four straight goals in their game with the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday, to take a 4-0 lead into the third period.
Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves and the Jets grabbed a 5-2 win over the Oilers.
“You can see in our game our details are right,” Hellebuyck said. “Everyone’s buying into our game and it’s translating. We’ve got the offensive power to do a lot with a little.”
Winnipeg improved to 9-3-3.
Leon Draisaitl had two power play goals in the third period to cut the Jets lead to 4-2, but Kyle Connor scored his 12th of the season into an empty net to end any threat for Edmonton.
“You get down 4-0, that’s a hard game to chase. I mean, let’s be honest,” Oilers head coach Dave Tippett said. “We got a couple power-play goals to get us back around it, but just not enough juice through our group right now. We’ve got to get home and get a day of rest.”
Adam Lowry staked the Jets to a 1-0 lead in the first period.
“Not our best for sure,” Draisaitl said. “But it’s tough when you go down 4-0. You’re obviously not going to win very many games.”
Nikolaj Ehlers, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Mark Scheifele scored in the middle frame for the 4-0 lead.
“We hope to win every single game,” Hellebuyck said after the Jets went 5-1-1 during a season-high seven game homestand. “Moving forward, that’s our mindset. One game at a time, and win every single one of them.”
Dubois scored off the power play.
Edmonton dropped to 11-4-0.
“We don’t quit, but with that said you don’t want to be down going into the third period, and we’ve been in that position a little too often,” the Oilers’ Darnell Nurse said. “We know we need to be in better positions going into the third period and we know we’re capable of doing that, so we just get back to work.”
Mikko Koskinen made 22 saves, and yielded four goals through two periods, he was given the hook in the second intermission.
Stuart Skinner made eight saves in the final stanza.
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