NHL - Jets - Round Up December 08-11, 2016

NY Rangers @ Jets 2-1 - Thursday, December 08, 2016

Kevin Hayes scored a power-play goal with 1:09 left in the third period to give the New York Rangers a 2-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre on Thursday. Jets forward Drew Stafford took a high-sticking minor with 2:56 left. Ryan McDonagh's point shot was partially blocked in front, but the puck went to Hayes, who scored his 11th goal of the season from the side of the net. Chris Kreider scored for the Rangers (18-9-1) and has three goals and two assists in his past four games. Antti Raanta made 17 saves; he is 6-1-0 in eight starts.

The Rangers scored twice on the power play after going 0-for-6 Tuesday in a 4-2 loss to the New York Islanders. The Rangers are 9-0-1 after a loss. Mark Scheifele, playing for the first time in four games, scored for the Jets (13-14-3). Michael Hutchinson allowed two goals on 24 shots. Kreider scored his third goal in his past three games to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead on the power play. With Scheifele in the box for interference, Mats Zuccarello found Derek Stepan with a cross-ice pass. Stepan quickly passed back across the ice to Kreider, whose tip in finished the tic-tac-toe play at 8:02. Scheifele tied the game 1-1 at 9:51 of the second period. Postma's point shot was stopped by Raanta, but the rebound fell to Scheifele, who was in front of the Rangers net. The Rangers killed off two penalties in the third period with the game tied 1-1.

* Hayes needed just a quick tap of the stick on the puck to score the game-winning goal.

* Hutchinson stretched across the crease to deny Rangers forward J.T. Miller with a right pad save in the first period.

* Kreider tapped in his seventh of the season to finish off a nice passing sequence in the first period.

* Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi blocked three shots and helped kill two third-period penalties with the game tied 1-1.

* The Rangers have 99 goals in 28 games this season, most in the NHL. … The Rangers are 15-1-0 when Miller gets a point. … Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien extended his point streak to six games with an assist. He has one goal and six assists over that stretch.

"We had a lot of good [offensive] zone time in the second period. It was a great shot by [defenseman Paul Postma]. I was in the right place at the right time. We had an unlucky bounce at the end. It's tough to lose that way. Scheifele said.
"They had a little bit more jump because we gave them jump. We were off the puck. We find success when we're forechecking. ... If we give teams like this with a lot of speed and skill time, they're going to make plays, they're going to make seam passes, they're going to skate through you. The more aggressive we got, finally, in the second period when we jumped on them we were able to take back some of the momentum and claw back into it." Drew Stafford

Jets @ Calgary Flames 2-6 - Saturday, December 10, 2016

Dougie Hamilton had two goals and an assist, and Mikael Backlund had a goal and two assists for the Calgary Flames in a 6-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday. Sam Bennett, Lance Bouma and Sean Monahan also scored, and Matthew Tkachuk had three assists for the Flames (16-13-2), who extended a season-long winning streak to six games. The streak is Calgary's longest since winning seven in a row Dec. 1-17, 2015. Nikolaj Ehlers and Jacob Trouba scored, and Michael Hutchinson made 25 saves for the Jets (13-15-3), who have lost three straight games (0-2-1) after winning four of five. Winnipeg will play the second of back-to-back games at the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. Hamilton scored twice as part of a four-goal second period. He scored at 8:29 to put Calgary up 1-0, and Bennett made it 2-0 at 13:00. Hamilton scored again at 15:20 with a slap shot from the point that beat Hutchinson on the short side, and Backlund made it 4-0 on a sharp-angled shot on the power play at 17:52. Bouma scored 3:31 into the third period to make it 5-0 when he backhanded a shot by Connor Hellebuyck, who replaced Hutchinson to start the third period. Ehlers beat Chad Johnson on the power play at 13:59 with his first goal in 16 games to cut the lead to 5-1, but Monahan scored with 3:32 remaining to extend his point streak to seven games (4 goals, 5 assists). Trouba shot by Johnson's glove with 0.1 seconds remaining to make it 6-2. Johnson finished with 26 saves.

* Trailing the rush, Bennett took a pass from Johnny Gaudreau in the high slot and skated in before shooting over Hutchinson's glove.

* Johnson stopped Dustin Byfuglien's slap shot from the point and stretched out his left pad to stop Bryan Little's rebound attempt from just outside the top of the crease at 12:20 of the first period.

* Mark Giordano dove and swung his stick to knock the puck away from Jets defenseman Paul Postma and out of Calgary's end at 7:20 of the third period after a turnover helped keep an offensive zone play alive for Winnipeg.

* Off the rush, Hamilton took a drop pass from Tkachuk and used him and Jets defenseman Ben Chiarot as a screen to shoot through Tkachuk's legs and by Hutchinson's glove for his first of two goals. "I saw their 'D' and [Tkachuk] and just kind of waited until I could see some white space in there," Hamilton said. "As soon as it opened up, I tried to put it through. I couldn't see the goalie so I was just trying to put it through their legs and upstairs."
* Gaudreau has four straight multipoint games (2 goals, 6 assists) since returning from a fractured finger. … The Flames have power-play goals in five consecutive games. … Johnson has started six in a row and 13 of the past 15 games for the Flames. … Hutchinson started consecutive games for the Jets for the first time since Oct. 28-30. … Byfuglien had a six-game point streak end.

"We just weren't good enough. That's just something we've got to change. We didn't play the game. We didn't play hard enough. We didn't play smart. They scored some quick goals there." Ehlers said.
"We've got to get it out of our mind and focus on tomorrow and have that fire in our belly." Mark Scheifele 

Jets @ Edmonton Oilers 2-3 - Sunday, December 11, 2016

Edmonton Oilers center Mark Letestu was credited with the game-winning goal in a 3-2 victory against the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Place on Sunday after Winnipeg rookie forward Patrik Laine inadvertently shot the puck into his own net in the third period. Laine's mistake after Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck made a pad save on a Letestu slap shot gave Edmonton a 3-2 lead at 11:21. The goal was Letestu's second of the night and helped Edmonton (15-11-5) end a four-game losing streak (0-1-3). Oscar Klefbom also scored for the Oilers, and goalie Cam Talbot made 29 saves for his first win in three starts. Mathieu Perreault and Chris Thorburn scored, and Hellebuyck made 27 saves for the Jets (13-16-3), who have lost four games in a row (0-3-1). Perreault scored at 14:50 of the first period to give Winnipeg a 1-0 lead after Bryan Little's shot hit the goal post. Klefbom scored at 1:53 of the second period to tie the game 1-1 on a long rebound off a shot from Tyler Pitlick. Thorburn put the Jets up 2-1 at 12:00 of the second when he one-timed a centering pass out of the corner from Marko Dano. Oilers forward Zack Kassian appeared to tie the game when he scored on a breakaway off a long pass from defenseman Dillon Simpson, but the goal was waved off after Jets coach Paul Maurice challenged it, and video review showed Kassian was offside. Letestu scored his first of the night at 2:28 of the third period to tie it 2-2, taking a cross-crease pass from McDavid and lifting the puck over Hellebuyck. Letestu has scored five of his six goals this season against the Jets. He has nine goals in 15 career games against them.

* On the power play, Lucic passed the puck across to McDavid behind the net. McDavid then sent a cross-crease pass to Letestu, who flipped the puck over Hellebuyck.
* Hellebuyck stopped Oilers defenseman Andrej Sekera's backhand shot from in close off a pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on a shorthanded 2-on-1 rush at 6:58 of the second period.

* Oilers defenseman Kris Russell had a game-high four blocked shots in 24:08 of ice time.

* Letestu took a slap shot from the right faceoff circle that Hellebuyck stopped, but Laine inadvertently put the rebound into the Jets net.
* McDavid shot the puck into an empty net just after time expired with Hellebuyck on the bench for an extra attacker. It's the second time this season McDavid has failed to beat the clock. He missed scoring in overtime by one-tenth of a second in a 3-2 shootout loss at the Coyotes on Nov. 25. … Letestu has 11 points in 15 career games against the Jets. … Winnipeg has played a NHL-high 32 games in 60 days.

"[Laine's] 18 years old, he feels terrible [scoring into his own net]. These things happen. I've done it many times. It's just a bad bounce. He's done a [heck] of a job for us this year. You just hate to see a guy feel that way after a game."
"I kind of tried to get rid of the puck right away. It was just a bad position for me. An unfortunate goal." Laine said.
"I wasn't really certain at first because it's like looking through cheesecloth on the monitor on the bench there. So we took the lid off it, and it was pretty clear." Maurice said.