In Winnipeg, the Jets and visiting Edmonton Oilers traded shots, but not goals through 65 minutes of play on Sunday.
In the end, the Jets were 2-for-2 on the skills competition and defeated the Oilers, 1-0.
Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves, and two more in the shootout, to get the win.
Paul Maurice won for the 700th time in the NHL as head coach.
“When you’re starting young, you’re thinking, ‘Wow, if I could coach 500 games in this league, that would be a milestone,'” Maurice said. “You don’t even consider coaching 1,000 games. It’s really since I’ve been in Winnipeg (2014) and come to Winnipeg that the numbers have really started to pile up.
“The last few years, I started to coach the best teams I’ve ever coached here, so you win more hockey games. It’s nice. I’m still a young man. Would like to do it for a while.”
The Jets had lost three straight on home ice.
“For us to start off this homestand with three straight losses, it was tough for us,” Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey said. “The way [Edmonton] has been scoring a lot of goals to start the year, to hold them to nothing is one of those moral victories. It’s not like we’re playing them next game again, so we’ve got to turn the page. But we can take some things from that win.”
Kyle Connor and Patrik Laine potted shots in the skills competition.
“That’s an old-fashioned Western Conference muck fest. You get the point and get out of here,” the Oilers Darnell Nurse said.
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Mike Smith earned a shutout in the loss. He made made 23 saves in the loss after yielding two goals in the shootout.
“Both teams were fighting for air out there,” Smith said. “It was a tight game. It was a hard game. Not a lot of room, but I thought we stuck with it. You get to overtime, anything can happen, and obviously a shootout also. I think we’re happy with the point, but obviously you want more.”
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