In Winnipeg Wednesday night, the Jets tried a comeback in the third period against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
But the Leafs’ John Tavares put an end to the rally with a power play goal to give the Leafs a 4-2 win.
Trailing 3-0, the Jets rallied with two goals from Nikolaj Ehlers and Mark Scheifele.
Frederik Andersen made 38 saves to get the win.
“It’s just so hard for the defenseman to be able to handle [Marner] when he’s skating like that,” Tavares said of Marner skating across the slot and getting off a backhand. “Hell of a move, and knowing him and his hockey sense, I just tried to go to the back post to see if there’s any trash. Beneficiary of a great play from him.”
Tavares’ goal came two minutes after the Jets had struck for two goals in 91 seconds.
“Those situations are usually big momentum swings and I think we came out great there,” Andersen said. “We got one right after their power-play goal and, obviously, got the two-goal lead again and that kind of slowed them down again.”
Kasperi Kapanen, Tyler Ennis and Nazem Kadri also scored for the Maple Leafs.
“I think it’s real simple for us,” Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. “If you want to play right and you want to play hard, suddenly you look fast again. We looked real slow the last two games coming out of our own zone (in losses to the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues). Tonight we looked fast.”
The Jets dropped to 6-3-1.
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Connor Hellebuyck made 35 saves in the loss.
“More concerned about our defending than anything else,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said. “Anything that we had clean that we could look at, we missed the net 11 times in the second period. That keeps you from feeling good about your offensive game, but it was more the defensive plays, the turnovers in our end of the ice.”
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