Jets get past Canucks, 7-4 | Pro Hockey News

In Winnipeg, Dylan DeMelo and Kyle Connor scored in the third period on Sunday afternoon to give the Jets a 7-4 lead over the Vancouver Canucks.

David Rittich protected the lad for the final score, made 34 saves in the win.

“[Rittich was] huge in the third, Jets coach Rick Bowness said. “He looked a lot more comfortable in the third than he did in the first two.”

Connor had the frsit two goals of the game to get a hat trick on the afternoon.

“It’s just a lot of fun right now and hopefully we just continue to grow,” Connor said. “This is [Nikolaj Ehlers‘] second game back and he’s only going to get better, our chemistry is only getting better, and hopefully the sky’s the limit.”

The Jets improved to 26-13-1.

“I thought (our line; Ehlers, Dubois) were reading off each other really well tonight,” Connor said. “Obviously a lot of potential, with that line. We also think the same way in a lot of senses, coming into the offensive zone. That’s what gives us the ability to read off of each other. A lot of cross-and-drops, finding the weak side.”

The two teams traded scoring opportunities throughout the frsit 40 minutes with the Jets taking a 5-4 lead into the third period.

“We felt good going into the third,” the Canucks’ JT Miller said. “We had a chance to win. It wasn’t all bad at that point. It just seems like a couple breakdowns here and there seemed to catch us and I don’t know what else to say, really. They just capitalized on their goals.”

Miller had a goal in the first period, and Jack Studnicka tied it, 2-2, for the Canucks.

“It’s hard to play a team like that chance for chance,” Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We kept coming back. I thought if we would have just tightened up the ship a little bit, we would have had opportunities to win, but it didn’t happen.”

Nikolaj Ehlers gave the Jets a 3-2 lead early in the second period, before Morgan Barron e pushed the lad to 4-2.

“You have to be ready,” Martin said. “We came right back in the game right when I got in there. From that point on it was just disappointing that we couldn’t finish it.”

Bo Horvat and Sheldon Dries got the Canucks even at 4-4 in the middle frame.

“The starts of the periods we got behind and we had to fight to get back,” Boudreau said. “We would have liked to have come out at the start of each period and take it to them rather than let them take it to us.”

With 1:43 left in the second, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby put the Jets up, 5-4.

“Actually I changed [my] tape job for today, changed to white tape,” Jonsson-Fjallby said. “We’ve got to keep going, we can’t relax, which we kind of [did] in both the first and second period. The starts are great and then we kind of fall back and let them play, which we can’t do. We’ve got to play the whole game.”

DeMelo scored shorthanded in the third.