NHL - Jets - Round Up February 10-14, 2017

Hawks @ Jets 5-2 - Friday, February 10, 2017
Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists to help the Chicago Blackhawks to their fourth straight win, 5-2 against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre. Patrick Kane and Artem Anisimov each had a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks, who are 4-1-0 on their six-game road trip, which ends Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers. The Blackhawks (34-17-5) avoided a season sweep by the Jets. They were outscored 14-5 in the first four games. The Jets (25-28-4) lost their third straight game and fourth straight at home. Duncan Keith and Marian Hossa scored for the Blackhawks, and Corey Crawford made 28 saves. Kane's first-period goal was the 269th of his NHL career, passing Tony Amonte for most by a United States-born player in Blackhawks history. Bryan Little and Adam Lowry scored for the Jets. Connor Hellebuyck made 31 saves for Winnipeg. It was his first loss in five starts against the Blackhawks this season. Kane scored at 15:37 of the first period to make it 1-0. Little tied the game 1-1 at 1:43 of the second period, picking up a rebound off Toby Enstrom's point shot and chipping it past Crawford for his 16th goal. Anisimov made it 2-1 at 12:16, getting his stick on a rebound from Panarin's shot from the top of the circle and directing it past Hellebuyck for his 19th of the season. Keith scored at 17:01 of the third period to make it 3-1. Hossa scored his 20th shorthanded into an empty net at 18:09. Lowry made it 4-2 at 18:49 on the power play. Panarin scored into an empty net at 19:44.

* Anisimov forced a turnover by Blake Wheeler near the Jets blue line and got the puck to Panarin, who made a cross-ice pass to Kane for his 18th goal.

* With the Blackhawks leading 2-1 in the second period, defenseman Brent Seabrook cleared a puck that was trickling through the legs of Crawford and approaching the goal line. 

* Crawford sprawled out to get his right pad on Mathieu Perreault's attempt at a wide-open net at 13:21 of the first period.

* Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson had six blocked shots, was plus-5 and had an assist in 24:11.

* Hossa scored 20 goals for the 15th time in his NHL career. … Winnipeg has allowed at least three goals in 14 straight games.

Jets Quotes

"I thought we had a bit of a slow start. I thought they came out hungry and controlled a lot of the play early in the game and got that goal right away. I thought we did a good job in the second and the third battling back and getting our chances and making it a close game."
"We regroup [Saturday]. It's kind of nice that we play right away again and try to get something going. We're desperate for points right now and we need to get on a roll. We're all glad to put this behind us and try and get a win [Saturday]." Little said.
"There are factors to it. Anything that I say is going to sound like an excuse so I really don't want to make them. The ability to drive and dominate, to get on any kind of runs, one piece of your game has to be elite at different times. So your goaltender has to get real hot for a few games and then special teams have to get hot for a few games and then that ability to drive in night in and night out gives you that. Yeah, there's some consistency that's not there in our game, that's true." Paul Maurice

Hawks Quotes

"I think it's even more important that, you know, we were in the same position against them the last time, up a goal in the third, and didn't get the job done."
"We did what we had to tonight, scored a late goal, big goal there by [Keith] and couple empty-netters. [It] feels good to beat these guys, especially after they've had the success they've had against us." Kane said.
"We've been trying to find that part of our game, whether it's the defensemen incorporating into the rush, jumping off points. Our possession zone time has been way more effective and more dangerous with chances made off the rush. You don't have to defend as much." Joel Quenneville

Tampa Bay Lightning @ Jets 4-1 - Saturday, February 11, 2017
Victor Hedman, Ondrej Palat and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist, and Ben Bishop made 32 saves to help the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre. Brian Boyle scored for the Lightning (25-24-7), who have won three of their past four games. It was Point's second goal in as many nights after he scored the tying goal in a 2-1 shootout loss at the Minnesota Wild on Friday. Jacob Trouba scored for the Jets (25-29-4), who lost their fourth straight game, fifth in a row at home. Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves in his second start in two nights; he allowed three goals on 34 shots in a 5-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday. Winnipeg has allowed three or more goals in each of its past 15 games. Point tapped in a nifty backhand pass from Drouin from behind the net to give Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 12:05 of the first period. Drouin stole the puck from Winnipeg forward Blake Wheeler and worked his way around the zone before making a quick pass to Point in front.

Boyle made it 2-0 at 17:02 of the first when he tipped Hedman's point shot past Hellebuyck. Palat beat Hellebuyck with a wrist shot to the short side to make it 3-0 at 2:11 of the second period. Trouba scored to make it 3-1 at 11:15 of the third period, ending Bishop's bid for his second straight shutout. Dustin Byfuglien passed to Trouba moving in alone to Bishop's left, and Trouba's wrist shot went high to the short side. Hedman scored into an empty net from center ice with 26 seconds remaining to make it 4-1. Jets defenseman Toby Enstom left in the first period with a lower-body injury. There was no update after the game.

* Palat received a pass from Point just inside the Jets blue line and beat Hellebuyck with a quick shot high over his blocker.

* Bishop gloved a backhand by Nikolaj Ehlers with 5:12 left in the third period after the Jets forward got around Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman for a partial breakaway.

* After hitting Scheifele on the end boards and stealing the puck from Wheeler in the left faceoff circle, Drouin skated along the right wall, went behind the Winnipeg net, and sent a no-look backhand pass to Point on the right post to set up Tampa Bay's first goal.

* Lightning defenseman Braydon Coburn had two shots on goal, two hits and three blocked shots in 19:19.

* Drouin has two goals and two assists in his past four games. ... Point has four goals in six games since returning from an upper-body injury. … The Jets have allowed 79 goals in their past 21 games, most in the NHL since Dec. 29.


"Our season is on the line. We have to come out with energy. I don't know what's happening. We're going to have to find a way with the boys all together and figure ourselves out." Mathieu Perreault said.
"We were playing from behind, and that makes it tough. This league's too good, especially playing against this team. I think they were in the Eastern Conference [Final] last year. They know what they're doing. They're starting to build some momentum and gain some confidence. It's that time of year. Playing from behind against teams like that makes it really difficult." Wheeler said.
"I'm not up here selling the young problem, as young as we were, [with] three pretty good players out of their lineup. We just aren't capable, or weren't capable, tonight of driving harder than we were. I ran the bench hard last night chasing the game at 2-1. Most of our guys who played over 20 minutes looked like it." Paul Maurice

Stars @ Jets 2-5 - Tuesday, February 14, 2017



Rookie forward Patrik Laine scored his third NHL hat trick, including the game-winning goal with 5:07 left, to help the Winnipeg Jets to a 5-2 victory against the Dallas Stars at MTS Centre. Laine scored his first goal in six games at 15:04 of the first period. His second gave the Jets a 3-2 lead at 14:53 of the third period and he completed the hat trick with an empty-net goal at 18:58. Laine has 26 goals this season, one behind Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews for the rookie goal scoring lead. Eight of Laine's goals have come against the Stars. Joel Armia and Blake Wheeler also scored for Winnipeg (26-29-4). Mark Scheifele had three assists, surpassing 200 points in his NHL career. Connor Hellebuyck made 34 saves to avoid a third straight loss. The Jets ended a four-game losing streak overall and a five-game skid at home. Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin scored for Dallas (22-26-10). Antti Niemi made 21 saves. The Stars are 1-6-0 this month. Armia gave the Jets a 2-0 lead at 7:37 of the second period. Benn scored his 19th to make it 2-1 at 8:43 after Jason Spezza, who returned after missing five games because of an upper-body injury, made a nice play at the Jets blue line to keep the puck in the zone. It was Benn's 500th NHL career point. Seguin tied it 2-2 at 13:35 on the power play, his wrist shot from the point getting through a screen and past Hellebuyck. Laine put Winnipeg back in front when he got the puck after Scheifele won a faceoff in the offensive zone and quickly sent a wrist shot past Niemi to make it 3-2. Wheeler scored an empty-net goal with 1:48 remaining. Winnipeg trails the Los Angeles Kings by four points for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. Dallas is two points behind the Jets.

* Scheifele won a faceoff to Niemi's right back to Laine, who used a quick release to put the puck high and over Niemi's glove hand for the game-winner.

* Stars defenseman Dan Hamhuis got his stick on a shot from Nikolaj Ehlers, saving a sure goal on a wide open net with the game tied 2-2 in the third period.

* Laine scored from inside the Jets blue line to complete his hat trick.

* Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey had an assist, two shots, three hits and four blocked shots in 19:41.

* The Stars end their season series with the Jets with a 1-4-0 record. ... Benn has nine goals and nine assists in his past 13 games. ... Laine is the first rookie to have two hat tricks against the same team since former New York Rangers forward Tony Granato against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 1988-89 season. ... Scheifele has seven goals and 10 assists in an eight-game point streak against the Stars.

"We had a serious meeting with the team after [a 4-1 loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday]. We just figured we have to work harder and just try to be simple on the ice. I think we managed to do that."

"It's always nice to score. It was a huge game for me and my linemates and the whole team. These four last games haven't been that good, so it was just nice to have a game like this."
"I just want to play more simple. Just put pucks on the net and hope for the best. We had some good scoring chances and we were able to score. That's a good thing." Laine said.
"It's two teams fighting for their [playoff] lives. These guys were a playoff team last year and have a really talented squad over there. It's a really good hockey team. You could feel they were pushing for the same thing we were pushing for. It made it a playoff feel game, a 2-2 game going into the third with those implications, there was a lot of intensity, a lot of chances. It's fun hockey." Wheeler said.