Jets beat Blackhawks, set mark with 8th straight win
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[January 12, 2024]
Gabriel Vilardi and Nikolaj Ehlers scored in the final four
minutes to lift Winnipeg to a 2-1 victory against the visiting Chicago
Blackhawks on Thursday, giving the Jets a franchise-record eighth
straight win.
Laurent Brossoit made 20 saves for the Jets, who also extended their
point streak to 14 games (12-0-2). |
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Jan 11, 2024; Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN; Winnipeg Jets forward Alex
Iafallo (9) and Chicago Blackhawks forward Joey Anderson (15) skate for
the puck during the first period at Canada Life Centre. Mandatory
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Connor Murphy scored and Petr Mrazek made 26
saves for the Blackhawks, who have lost seven of eight (1-6-1)
and 15 straight on the road (0-14-1).
Ehlers scored the go-ahead goal with 1:05 left, bringing the
puck down the middle of the Chicago zone and scoring with a
wrist shot from the inside edge of the right circle.
Vilardi scored off a centering pass from just above the goal
line by Adam Lowry to tie the score 1-1 with 3:29 remaining.
The Jets have allowed two goals or fewer in the past 11 games
and three or fewer in the past 31.
In the second period, Chicago's Lukas Reichel left a pass for
Murphy as they went in opposite directions just inside the
Winnipeg blue line. Murphy had room to skate to the top of the
right circle and blast a slap shot past Brossoit for a 1-0 lead
at 4:19.
Mrazek robbed Vilardi on a breakaway with just under six minutes
left in the opening period to keep it scoreless. Ehlers made a
flip pass from behind his own net as Chicago was making a line
change to spring the breakaway.
Jets forward Mark Scheifele sustained a lower-body injury on the
first shift of the second period and did not return. He leads
Winnipeg with 41 points and 27 assists.
Playing in front of their second sellout of the season, the Jets
went 0-for-4 on the power play. The Blackhawks came in with the
28th-ranked penalty kill in the NHL (77.1 percent).
The Jets switched up their defensive pairings in the second
period, moving Josh Morrissey with Nate Schmidt and Dylan
Samberg with Dylan DeMelo.
--Field Level Media
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