Jets wrap 7-game homestand with offensive outburst to down West-leading Oilers
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Connor Hellebuyck knew it wasn't going to be an easy night in net, but he got a lot of help and it paid off.
"Any time a team comes in that's winning a lot of games, it's on," Hellebuyck said. "It's not going to be a fun night, it's going to be a grinder, and I think we all followed into that tonight."
Adam Lowry, Nikolaj Ehlers, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor scored for Winnipeg (9-3-3). Josh Morrissey added a pair of assists.
"We needed some good defence, some physical play, good sticks, one-on-ones, good offence," Dubois said. "We needed a lot out there tonight and we did a good job of that."
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NHL-leading scorer Leon Draisaitl had a pair of power-play goals early in the third period for Edmonton (11-4-0), giving him 17 goals and 33 points on the season.
Connor McDavid, second in league scoring, assisted on both goals to up his point total to 29 and keep alive his streak of notching at least a point in every one of his team's 15 games this season.
"I don't think we were as bad as maybe it looked on the score sheet, but if you go down 4-0 you're probably not going to win," Draisaitl said.
Mikko Koskinen stopped 22 of the 26 shots he faced before being replaced by Stuart Skinner to start the third period. The backup made eight saves. The loss put Koskinen's record at 9-2-0.
It was Edmonton's last game of a five-game road trip that saw the team only win twice (2-3-0).
"I didn't like our game as much in St. Louis [but] we got a win there," Edmonton coach Dave Tippett said. "And we came in here and you could tell we were low on energy to finish the trip. To get down early like that and chase the game, we just didn't have the oomph to come back."
A rematch between the teams goes Thursday in Edmonton. It was the first meeting between the clubs since the Jets swept the Oilers in the first round of last season's playoffs.
Lowry got the Jets on the scoreboard at 2:09 of the first period with a blooper goal Koskinen should have stopped.
The Jets forward got the puck near his blue line and headed toward the netminder. He took a shot from the top of the circle and the puck hit Koskinen, went under him and started dribbling toward the goal line. He tried to swipe it away with his stick but missed.
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