In Winnipeg Thursday night, the Jets’ Mark Scheifele scored to force extra time with the Philadelphia Flyers then scored the deciding goal in the skills competition to keep the Jets hot in a 3-2 win.
The tying goal came with just 49 seconds to go for Jets team suddenly exhibiting patience.
“It would have been easy to open it up and try to tie it in five minutes,” Blake Wheeler, said . “That would have been what we tried to do in years past. That’s a good sign of maturity, but we have got to play better.”
Connor Hellebuyck, who got the win was on the bench in favor of an extra attacker when Winnipeg tied it up; Hellebuyck made 30 saves in the win.
Mathieu Perreault, also scored in regulation for the Jets.
The Flyers got goals from Jakub Voracek and Sean Couturier.
“It hurts,” Voracek said. “In OT, I think we were better. We had a lot of scoring chances. It [stinks].”
The loss dropped the Flyers to 8-8-3.
“It was a heavy game,” Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol said. “It was hard. There’s a lot of portions of that game where there’s not a ton of flow because of the amount of specialty-team play back and forth.”
Winnipeg is 8-1-3 in their their 12 games.
“We played a [heck] of a game. A great comeback win. This is the National (Hockey) League, and they’re a good hockey team,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said after his team rallied to win.
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Brian Elliott made 31 saves.
“Forty seconds left, we let one in. It’s tough. The goal we give up, it’s one face-off in the offensive zone and it turns into a 2-on-1, and those are the things that bite you in the butt,” Elliott said after the late goal that led to the loss.
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