Jets rally past Hurricanes with five-goal third Jeets erase 3-0 deficit with five-goal outburst in third

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In Raleigh, the visiting Winnipeg Jets gave up a three-spot in the Hurricanes n the middle frame to fall behind, 3-0, entering the final stanza on Saturday afternoon.

The Jets responded with a five-goal obliteration of the Canes en route to a 5-3 win.

Four different skaters were on the scoresheet for the Jets in the outburst.

In just over four minutes, the Jets tied the game, 3-3.

Kyle Connor got the offense rolling with 98 seconds gone in the third for a 3-1 deficit.

Nino Niederreiter , who hit for a double in the third period, hit for his first  to trim the gap to 3-2 at 3:02, scoring off a backhand.

The Jets’ Mark Scheifele hit off the power play at at 5:40 to knot the game, 3-3. He also scored off a backhand shot.

“Probably your risk profile increases a little bit pinching as a defenseman, trying to keep plays alive,” the Jets’ Josh Morrissey said. “Fortunately, I was able to get it to [Scheifele], and he made an amazing move and kept his composure in a big moment.”

Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves in the win.

The Jets improved to 38-16-5 off their fifth win in six games.

“We knew we were playing well,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “But we just talked after the second. ‘We’re fine, keep doing what we’re doing, we don’t have to make any changes.’

“Give the players full credit. They stayed in the fight.”

The Hurricanes dropped to 36-19-6.

“[Kochetkov] had a tough night, let’s be honest,” Carolina coach Brind’Amour said. “We love his aggressiveness. That’s part of his routine. But [Monahan’s goal was] maybe was not the time to do that.

“Every goal, there was some silly thing we did. You play good teams, they’re going to capitalize. That’s what happened. We know how we messed this game up, it’s just that [stuff] can’t happen.”

After a scoreless opening stanza, Carolina took control of the game with a three-goal middle frame.

Martin Necas staked the Canes to a 1-0 lead midway through the period, scoring from the left circle.

The Canes pushed th3 advantage to 2-0 on a marker from Teuvo Teravainen at 15:54, scoring from the mid slot.

Sebastian Aho ballooned the lead to 3-0 on a power play strike with 48 seconds left in the second.

“They got kind of lucky on the first goal and got momentum,” Aho said. “After those goals, you’ve got to do whatever you can to kill their momentum. Obviously, we weren’t able to do that, so it was out of our hands.”

The Jets popped the balloon in the third for the tie, and Sean Monahan hit for the game winner with just over three minutes left on the regulation clock.

“You want to try to keep it rolling,” Monahan said. “We did a good job of that. It was shift after shift. Once you get the momentum, you want to keep it.”

Niederreiter collected his double with 11 seconds left when he hit an empty net for the 5-3 final count on the scoreboard

“It’s a very good hockey team over there,” Morrissey said. “I think the big message after the second was we’ve been doing a lot of good things. Obviously you’re down 3-0, and it’s not a good place to be. But we hit a post and had some good looks and just gave them a few things off the rush. Other than that, we liked how we were playing.”

Pyotr Kochetkov made 28 saves in the loss.