In Winnipeg, the Colorado Avalanche got a 40-save effort from Adam Werner and defeated the Jets, 4-0, on Tuesday evening.
“You need to have a dream, and a big dream out there, and work for it and be prepared if something happened,” Werner said. “I had a pretty great start there, an easy shot, and I get a feel for the puck. The guys helped me so much, so it was a nice game to play for me.”
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and four p[oints on the night.
“I’m really happy for [Werner]. It’s an amazing performance for him,” MacKinnon said. “Came in so comfortably and made some huge saves. It wasn’t just an easy game for him.”
Werner did not start the game, he came in at the 31 second mark, after starter Pavel Francouz was inured in a collision in the crease.
“Of course, there’s some nerves,” Werner said. “But you just get in there in a short time, and I guess I just tried to have fun and play my game.”
Cale Makar and Joonas Donskoi bookended MacKinnon’s goals.
“It was a frustrating game,” Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey said. “It just felt like we were right there, and the puck just kind of didn’t go our way a couple times. We had a lot of chances. Give him credit, their goalie made a lot of big saves.
“These are the ones where you feel like you do a lot of good things, and then you end up with nothing to show for it, nothing on the board.”
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Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves in the loss.
“If the shots were 40-[25] for them tonight, I would have been pretty darn disappointed,” Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice said. “So I’m not walking away from this one too dejected. Two years of being an absolutely dominant home team, and I’m not sure we can expect that, but that’s fine. Because we’ve been pretty tight and pretty good on the road. We’re going to have to scratch and claw wherever the puck’s dropped. We’re going to have to go a little harder than we did tonight.
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