Scheifele got the Jets on the scoreboard but Utah still tramples over with 4-1 victory

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Clayton Keller and Barrett Hayton each had a extremity and an assist, and the Utah Hockey Club bushed the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets 4-1 connected Saturday night.

Winnipeg mislaid for conscionable the 4th clip successful 12 games, remaining 4 points up of Dallas atop the Central Division

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 05, 2025 10:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A radical of antheral are successful a hockey net.

Clayton Keller and Barrett Hayton each had a extremity and an assist, and the Utah Hockey Club bushed the NHL-leading Winnipeg Jets 4-1 connected Saturday night.

Kevin Stenlund besides had a extremity and an assist, and Nick Bjugstad besides scored for Utah, and Karel Vejmelka stopped 32 shots to get his 3rd triumph successful 4 games and amended to 24-21-7 this season.

Mark Scheifele scored for thee Jets, and Connor Hellebuyck finished with 24 saves.

Keller gave Utah a 1-0 pb with a power-play extremity 4:24 into the crippled arsenic helium redirected Hayton's cross-ice walk past Hellebuyck from the close circle.

A puck goes into a hockey nett with a antheral lasting successful beforehand of the net.

Hayton doubled the pb 57 seconds into the 2nd with Utah's 2nd with the antheral advantage, backhanding the puck past Hellebuyck aft getting a walk from Dylan Guenther. Keller besides had an assistance connected the play to springiness him 500 points for his career.

Stenlund scored from the apical of the close ellipse with 3:03 remaining successful the mediate play to marque it 3-0.

Scheifele got the Jets connected the scoreboard with a power-play extremity astatine 2:45 of the third, but Bjugstad sealed it with an empty-netter with 2:41 to go.

Takeaways

Jets: Winnipeg mislaid for conscionable the 4th clip successful 12 games, remaining 4 points up of Dallas atop the Central Division and 1 constituent up of East-leading Washington successful the Presidents' Trophy race.

Utah: Utah pulled 7 points down Minnesota for the 2nd chaotic paper successful Western Conference.

Key moment

After Hellebuyck made a fistful of elite saves to support the crippled successful reach, Stenlund bushed him cleanable disconnected the unreserved to springiness Utah a 3-0 pb precocious successful the 2nd period.