Penguins stall Jets in 3-1 win

In Winnipeg, Tristan Jarry continued his hot hand in the Pittsburgh Penguins net with 33 saves in a 3-1 win over the Jets, on Monday night.

“I think his timely saves are just huge,” the Penguins’  Danton Heinen said. “The breakaway in the third there, we need a big save, he’s been so solid. It’s awesome to see and I’m super happy for him and happy we have him back there.”

Dominic Toninato scored for the Jets midway through the opening period for a 1-0 lead.

“[Jarry is] playing with great confidence, and that’s huge for us,” Penguins forward Jason Zucker said. “We knew that over the summer he was going to take himself very seriously, and the training seriously, and come back and want to have a statement year. And this trip, I think, was huge for him.”

Pittsburgh’s Jason Zucker knotted the game at 1-1 in the 15th minute of the second period.

“There was good energy at the start of the game and lots of jump,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said. “I thought it flattened out after it went to 1-1, but we were slow in the third. We got the lead and got above it. We did not help ourselves with what we did with the puck, and then we didn’t have it very much.”

Danton Heinen gave the Pens a 2-1 lead at 3:33 of the third period.

“I think we started playing some better hockey and got some time to hang out together and kind of get closer as a team,” Heinen said. “I think we can build on this (road trip), for sure.”

Winnipeg dropped to 9-5-4.

“We didn’t really get too many good looks,” Winnipeg’s Kyle Connor said. “We had 30-some-odd shots. It was pretty perimeter, I think. I had a breakaway, lost the puck. Other than that, I didn’t think we challenged [Jarry] too hard. Made his night pretty easy, to be honest.”

The Penguins improved to 8-6-4.

“Give them credit, they came out hard on their toes, and they’re a talented team,” Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said. “But I thought we did a pretty good job just grabbing hold of ourselves and just try to turn the momentum a little bit, just simplifying the game. We needed to be more determined, and I thought the players responded really well. We competed hard in the last 40 minutes, and the third I thought was our best.”

Jake Guentzel added an empty-net strike late for the 3-1 final.

Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves in the Jets loss.