In Winnipeg, the Jets got goals from seven skaters Tuesday night in a 7-4 win over the visiting Colorado Avalanche.
Blake Wheeler scored and added three assists on the night.
The Jets improved to 27-13-2.
“I think we like what we can do offensively,” Wheeler said. “So there’s going to be nights where we pour it on and their goalie plays well, and there’s going to be nights where we get a few and make the most of our chances.”
Mark Scheifele, Jacob Trouba, Mathieu Perreault, Kyle Connor, Bryan Little, and Andrew Copp all scored for Winnipeg.
“You can replicate that game. You can do that night after night. You may not score five, but you can do that night after night. If it’s going to be an open game, we’re going to get our chances. But it’s not something you can count on in the Western Conference,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said after the win.
Connor Hellebuyck made 37 saves to get the win.
“Well, it’s easy to say you deserve something but if you give up [seven] goals, it’s hard to win a game,” Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen said. “We won the shots (41-21), but we didn’t win the game, so it doesn’t really matter. We created a lot of chances, the first period especially. We played really good and they got a 2-0 lead there. We came back and just tough result.”
Gabriel Landeskog struck for two goals in the loss and has 27 on the season.
“They’re a really good team,” Trouba said. “We got up a little bit and then they kind of crept back in. Going into the third we were in a decent spot and we wanted to take advantage of the position we put ourselves in and we played a pretty good third period.”
Carl Soderberg and Ryan Graves scored single markers for teh Avs.
“We have to stay positive, even if we’ve been losing a lot,” Soderberg said. “It’s still a new game [on Wednesday against Calgary Flames] and I think we played pretty good. Take that with us and battle even harder tomorrow.”
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Philipp Grubauer made 14 saves in the loss.
“I think that type of effort, that type of commitment 5-on-5 is a winning recipe is on most nights,” Avs head coach Jared Bednar said after the games. “Again, you got to eliminate a couple of those mistakes. You can’t hand good teams — Calgary or Winnipeg, doesn’t matter who it is — you can’t hand good teams goals and then we got to win a little bit on the special teams. We’ve got to find a way to keep one or two of those out of our net and capitalize on one or two of our chances and it’s a different game. There’s a lot to like, but there’s also some things we’ve got to fix.”
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