In Winnipeg, Marcus Johansson and Vince Dunn scored in the first period to give the visiting Seattle Kraken a 2-0 lead over the Jets.
Winnipeg settled down and scored five of the next six goals in the game for a 5-3 win on Thursday night.
“They took advantage of opportunities when they had the opportunities,” Seattle head coach Dave Hakstol said. “I thought too many of their opportunities came off of our stick. We gave up nothing in the first period until the shorthanded goal. The second period, once they got the second goal, that gave them a little bit of life and the four of five chances they had in the second period came off of our stick.”
Eric Comrie made 20 saves in the Jets win.
The Jets moved to 22-18-8.
“I really thought that we felt we were in control of the game at that point,” Jets coach Dave Lowry said. “Obviously you’re disappointed to give up that goal but we stayed with and got the goal that we were looking for.”
Marcus Johansson, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Blake Wheeler scored for Winnipeg to give them a 3-2 lad.
“I just have a lot of confidence in the guys I play with,” Wheeler said. “Ultimately, if you’re productive and you’re losing, what does it matter? It’s nice to play well when the team’s playing well.”
Jordan Eberle scored for the Kraken in the third period to tie the game, 3-3, after the Jets had rallied for the lead.
“We created enough, I think the biggest thing is we gave up too much,” Eberle said. “We hung [Grubauer] too much out to dry. They had some good chances and that’s all stuff that we created and gave them.”
Josh Morrissey scored to give the Jets a 4-3 in the third period.
“We know where we’re at in the standings, and we need points and wins right now,” Morrissey said. “I’ve liked where our game has been at since we’ve come back from the break, for the most part, and it was an emotional win for us last night and to rebound against a team that is coming in fresh and waiting for us here tonight.”
The Kraken fell to 16-30-4.
“They took the lead, and quickly,” Eberle said. “We needed to find a way to fight back into it. We had our chances, we had a ton of chances to give ourselves an opportunity to get ahead and to push beyond. … You trade chances with a good team that has a lot of firepower over there, that’s what’s going to happen.”
Kyle Connor hit an empty-net goal to ice the 5-3 win for Winnipeg.
Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves in the Seattle loss.
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