in las vegas, Conor Hellbwick He made 16 saves for the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night in a 5-1 win over the Golden Knights. With the ice stealing home advantage from Vegas and giving the Jets a 1-0 lead in their first-round series with the Knights.
Blake Wheeler He had a goal and three points in the win.
“We were ready for a fast start, and the other times we’ve played here this year they’ve stunned us very early on and we’ve had a hard time getting our game going,” Wheeler said. “We wanted to try to assert ourselves and be aggressive early on, and after that first period we were pretty good about our game.”
Kyle Connor Pierre-Luc Dubois scored in the first 2:26 of the quarterback frame to give the Jets a 2-0 lead.
“Obviously tonight was the best game we’ve played against them for the entire 60 minutes (this season),” Jets coach Rick Bowness said. “Now, they’re a great hockey club, and they’re going to pick up momentum, so tonight I found we bent a bit but didn’t break.”
The two goals were scored 62 seconds apart.
“I like to throw anyone who scores to go right back at them,” said Bowness. “They feel good about themselves. It was a short period when they scored. We always like to go back to the streak that scored.”
Vegas William Carlson He scored at 15:49 of a second to cut the lead to 2-1.
“It’s one match,” said the Golden Knights captain. Mark Stone. “Sometimes you just scrape it and go. We definitely have to look and see what we’re doing right and what we’re doing wrong.”
Winnipeg regained a two-goal lead when Wheeler scored four minutes into the third period.
“They scored a big goal there at the end of the second half and it gave them some momentum, and the crowd was really into it,” Wheeler said. “The end of the period came at a good time for us. We were able to reset. It was good to have a good third.
“We played well. That was the way we wanted to play and we knew what to expect for the second game. This team is probably the best team in the league at home in the first period, so the start to the next game is going to be huge.”
Adam Lowry scored twice in the last 90 seconds of the game.
His first was on an empty net for a 4-1 Jets lead, and his second was off a stellar set of passes on a power play in the final 5-1.
Vegas shot twice on goal in the third period.
“Offensively, we knew they weren’t going to give up too much. If you weren’t ready to play a game behind them, they wouldn’t give up,” said Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy. [defensemen] And check out the interruptions, untangle them and then get the rush opportunities, it’s going to be a challenge.”
Laurent Brossuyt Made 26 saves in the .1 loss