Follow usJosh Morrissey and Mark Scheifele each scored twice to highlight Winnipeg Jets’ four-goal third period in a 4-2 comeback win over the visiting St. Louis Blues on Monday.
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Saku Maenalanen and Kyle Connor had two assists each for the Jets, who erased a 2-0 deficit in the final period to end their three-game losing streak.
Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves to earn the victory.
“To score 40 seconds after they got that second goal just turned the whole game around in our favor,” Jets coach Rick Bowness said about Morrissey’s goal.
“That was a hell of a shot and a great rush. … He’d been playing that way the whole game. Sometimes you step up and be the difference-maker, and he was tonight.”
Jake Neighbours scored a goal and added an assist for the Blues, who lost their fifth straight game. Nikita Alexandrov also scored and Jordan Binnington made 35 saves.
“Our kill was really good and we got a power-play goal there. It was a nice play,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “Kind of hanging in there with a pretty depleted lineup, you know. You’ve got to manage things and we just didn’t manage it good enough.”
The Jets showed a video tribute and held a moment of silence for former star Bobby Hull, who died Monday at the age of 84.
The Hockey Hall of Famer played for the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks before signing a then-record $1-million deal to join the Winnipeg Jets of the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972. The scoring legend spent eight seasons with the Jets, the last when the club merged with the NHL.
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