Jets edge Stars in OT

In Winnipeg, Mark Scheifele scored with just 21 seconds gone in extra time to give the Jets a 3-2 win over the visiting Dallas Stars.

“It’s always big,” said Scheifele, whose ninth career NHL overtime goal tied him with Ilya Kovalchuk for the most in Winnipeg/Atlanta Thrashers history. “The intensity always ramps up a little bit for Central Division matchups. We did a good job tonight of just sticking with it. Awesome to get the two points in overtime.”

Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves in the win as the Jets improved to 10-7-1.

“I think we’ve proved to ourselves that we can come back in any game this year,” the Jets’ Andrew Copp said. “Any game where we’re down a goal or two goals, it doesn’t really matter how much time is left. We have the confidence we can do it. We’ve done it before. I don’t think there’s any real panic in our room when we get down a goal, we know the firepower that we have.”

Mattias Janmark and Radek Faksa were the strikers for Dallas.

“Every point is important to us,” Dallas forward Jason Dickson said. “We want to win every game we can. Getting one point out of this is huge but two would’ve been nice. We’re not happy and we’re not satisfied, but if we can keep rolling and we can get more points on this road trip then we’ll be in a good spot.”

Patrik Laine gave the Jets a 1-0 lead before the Stars scored two straight; Copp scored to get the game to overtime.

“It’s definitely a bigger game,” Copp said. “We’ve got a couple rivals in there, just with teams we’ve played playoff series with, and teams that we see so often. It’s going to be tight again this year. It’s tight every year, so we know how important these games are. We’re going to see a lot of these teams coming up in the next month, two months, so we’ve got to make sure that we’re winning these games and getting ahead of these teams as much as we can.”

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Anton Khudobin took the loss on 26 saves.

“If you look across the entire League, it’s being able to take advantage of your opportunities,” Dickinson said. “A lot of teams defend really well. Especially for us, there’s no lying about it that we don’t score a ton of goals. We need to take advantage of every chance we get to score and make them work.”