Stastny scores twice, makes 500th career assist to propel Jets past Blues
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Linemates Nikolaj Ehlers, Mark Scheifele and Paul Stastny accounted for all the goals to propel the Jets to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday in Winnipeg and give interim Winnipeg head coach Dave Lowry his first win behind the bench.
Stastny scored twice and added an assist, Ehlers had a goal and three assists and Scheifele had a goal and assist for the Jets (14-11-5), who ended a three-game winless streak (1-2-1).
Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves for Winnipeg, the only Canadian team playing Sunday because of COVID-19 postponements for Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Vladimir Tarasenko and Niko Mikkola scored for St. Louis (17-9-5), which had its seven-game point streak (5-1-2) halted.
Pavel Buchnevich and Ivan Barbashev each had a pair of assists, while Jordan Binnington stopped 30 shots for the Blues.
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The game was the last for a while for Winnipeg and St. Louis, after the NHL announced Sunday afternoon teams can't cross the border to play starting Monday through the beginning of the holiday break Dec. 23 because of rising COVID-19 cases. Games will be postponed and rescheduled.
Winnipeg's Tuesday game in Nashville had already been postponed, but now a Dallas contest the next day follows suit.
St. Louis now won't be playing in Ottawa on Tuesday or Toronto on Thursday.
The Jets and Blues were 0-0 after the first period of Sunday's match, despite both teams having power-play time.
The Jets were able to go on a shorthanded two-on-one rush, but Binnington stopped defenceman Brenden Dillon's shot.
Winnipeg had an 11-8 edge on shots after the first.
St. Louis got one more shot on net during their power play, but it was the Jets who soon scored at 4:40.
Scheifele sent a backhand pass out to Ehlers in the slot, who beat Binnington stick side with his 12 of the season. Ehlers then scooped up the puck to give to Stastny, whose assist on the goal was the 500 of his career.
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