Jets blank Golden Knights 4-0, tie franchise record for wins at 52

Mark Anderson · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 11:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Backup goaltender Eric Comrie made 26 saves for his 2nd shutout successful 2 months arsenic the Winnipeg Jets bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 4-0 connected Thursday nighttime successful a matchup of Western Conference divisional leaders.

The Jets are present 1 triumph from breaking the franchise grounds and took a large measurement toward securing the Central Division and home-ice vantage for the Stanley Cup playoffs.

They person 3 much points than Washington successful the contention for the Presidents' Trophy and 4 much than Dallas successful the Central.

Vegas, aft back-to-back losses this week, finds its erstwhile coagulated grip connected the Pacific Division much tenuous. Los Angeles is wrong 3 points aft beating the Utah Hockey Club 4-2 connected Thursday night.

Vegas entered the week comfortably up successful the Pacific but the Knights present hazard falling into a imaginable first-round playoff matchup with the Edmonton Oilers, who mislaid past year's Stanley Cup last successful Game 7.

Mark Scheifele, Adam Lowry, Colin Miller and Cole Perfetti scored, and Nino Niederreiter had 2 assists. Comrie, who backs up two-time Vezina Trophy victor Connor Hellebuyck, got his archetypal shutout since Feb. 4 against Carolina.

Scheifele's extremity was his 799th vocation point. Blake Wheeler is the only player successful the franchise to scope the 800-point mark.

Adin Hill stopped 16 of 19 shots portion playing the archetypal 2 periods for the Golden Knights. Hill was replaced successful the 3rd by Akira Schmid, who was precocious called up from the AHL's Henderson Silver Knight. Schmid saved some shots helium faced. Perfetti's extremity was an empty-netter.

Jets guardant Nikolaj Ehlers was doubly injured aft getting deed by the puck. The 2nd time, successful the 3rd period, helium near and didn't return.

The Jets' 52 wins tied the people acceptable past play and successful 2017-18, erstwhile they went heavy into the playoffs.

That year, Winnipeg was knocked retired of the Western Conference last successful 5 games by the Golden Knights. The Washington Capitals bushed the Knights successful 5 games to assertion the Stanley Cup.

The adjacent — and perchance record-setting — crippled for the Jets is against Utah connected Saturday. The Knights besides play that day, against Calgary.