Jets fly by Blues

Suddenly everyone wants to play the St Louis Blues. On Saturday, the Winnipeg Jets took advantage of a Blues team in the doldrums and three goals through the middle frame and went to beat the Blues, 5-2, and end a five-game schneid.

Jack Roslovic struck twice for the Jets.

“It’s huge, especially against a team like that, a team that is high up in the standings,” Roslovic said of the Central Division leaders. “We can play with anybody. I think this is going to be the spark for the [Stanley Cup] Playoff push that we need to go on.”

Connor Hellebuyck made 38 saves in the win.

“We’ve been playing well these past couple of games, but it hasn’t been that way on the score sheet,” Roslovic said. “We’re moving our feet, playing hard and sticking up for each other, and doing all the right things.”

St Louis got on the board in the third period when they traded goals Brayden Schenn and Ryan O’Reilly with the Jets.

“We know they have a lot of firepower and they’re fighting for their lives,” O’Reilly said. “They’re going to play desperate, and you see from that they get that first goal and get a bit off confidence and go from there. For us, we have to play tougher on them. We have to find a way to make it difficult, especially on their top guys, and build our game from that.”

St Louis is 1-4-1 in their last six.

Blake Wheeler and Andrew Copp  also scored for the Jets.

“I think we can get better. It wasn’t perfect by any stretch,” Copp said. “But it felt like it was a good step in the right direction. Depending on when we get guys back, it could be like this for a little while. Hopefully we can build on today’s performance.”

Patrik Laine added an empty net goal as a sealer.

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Jordan Binnington made 28 saves in the loss.

“We maybe had to find the back of the net a little earlier tonight, and we didn’t,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “We had a lot of opportunities. … We’ll go home and regroup and have a nice (three-game] homestand. I’m focused on that now.”