Jets double time Blues, 4-2 Monahan scores in win

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In Winnipeg,Sean Monahan continued to heat up for the Jets on Tuesday night, he picked up a goal and two points in a 4-2 win over the St Louis Blues.

“From Day One since we got Sean we’ve been trying to get that chemistry on the second line,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “That’s very important as we move forward. That line (Monahan, Nikolaj Ehlers, and Alex Iafallo) has looked very good.

“You’ve got two very reliable players in Sean and Alex, and it gives [Ehlers] a little more freedom out there. Now the line looks really good.”

Monahan now has six goals with the Jets.

Laurent Brossoit made 36 saves in the win.

The Jets improved to 37-15-5.

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The Jets took a 2-0 lead in the opening stanza.

Monahan broke the ice at 8:53 for the 1-0 lead to Winnipeg.

“(Our line is) buzzing right now,” Iafallo said. “I feel like we had a lot of great chances offensively. You know we got to keep that going, keep the speed through the neutral zone. Just keep making plays down low like that.”

Brenden Dillon pushed the lead to 2-0 midway through the period.

“On that play, [Mark Scheifele] went right back to me,” Dillon said. “I didn’t have to move. I just put my head down and fired it.”

The Blues’ Pavel Buchnevich hit 30 seconds later to trim the deficit to 2-1.

“I think we played a decent game,” Buchnevich said. “We got chances, but like I was saying, we’ve got to score goals, you know? But at least we got chances today and not like just on the power play.

“We’re just trying to play the right way right now, find a way in [our] game. Just simplify our game and try to play for the team, and hopefully get the result.”

Kyle Connor restored the two-goal lead at 15:33 off a shot from the left side.

“[Morrissey] was creating a lot of offense earlier, we just weren’t scoring any goals for him,” Bowness said. “We monitor those chances for and against very closely, and he’s always been up there in terms of creating chances for. So yeah, it wasn’t going our way offensively for a while, but now the puck’s going in and he’s making great plays.”

The Blues dropped to 30-26-2 off their fourth loss in five games.

“(We) find ourselves chasing the game early on,” St. Louis coach Drew Bannister said. “We had some opportunities in the first offensively where we didn’t convert. I thought there were two mistakes in the game that made the difference, on the third goal, and then obviously on the fourth goal. We gave ourselves an opportunity in the second with a real good second to get ourselves back in the game, and then we make that mistake and we don’t have an opportunity to tie it up at the end. But certainly a better effort, but we’ve got to find more from our group.”

In the middle frame, St Louis’ Brandon Saad cut into the Jets lead at 9:03 to make it 3-2.

“I thought the guys did a good job in the second period. Come back, get [within] one and give us a chance going to the third,” the Blues’ Justin Faulk said. “We probably just didn’t have enough of a push in the third there as we needed, and they were able to capitalize and obviously really take control at that point.”

Iafallo hit for a marker midway through the third period for the 4-2 final count on the scoreboard. Joel Hofer made 28 saves in the loss.

“We’re playing a lot of tough teams coming up right now, and we’re going to need to find a way to dig deep and find some points,” Faulk said. “None of the games are going to be easy. It’s the expectation of the group.”