Winnipeg Jets score franchise-record 53rd win of season after 3-1 win over Blues

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Alex Iafallo scored the game-winner disconnected a rebound astatine 7:05 of the 3rd play to assistance the Winnipeg Jets decision the red-hot St. Louis Blues 3-1 connected Monday and registry a franchise-record 53rd triumph of the season.

Hellebuyck made 14 saves to grounds his 44th triumph of the play and necktie his franchise grounds from 2017-18

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 11:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A radical of men are adjacent to the nett successful a hockey game.

The Blues had their franchise-record 12-game triumph streak halted, which was besides the longest successful the NHL this season.

Morgan Barron and Adam Lowry, into an bare net, besides scored for the Jets (53-21-4), who apical the wide league standings, the Western Conference and the Central Division with 110 points.

Hellebuyck made 14 saves to grounds his 44th triumph of the play and necktie his franchise grounds from 2017-18.

Pavel Buchnevich scored for the Blues (43-29-7) and Joel Hofer stopped 23 shots for St. Louis, which holds the archetypal wild-card spot successful the Western Conference, 2 points up of the idle Minnesota Wild.

Three men successful hockey cogwheel hug.

The tight-checking archetypal play featured immoderate absorbing numbers but nary goals.

Winnipeg outshot the Blues 8-3, but the visitors led 14-3 successful blocked shots.

Barron bushed Blues guardant Mathieu Joseph to a escaped puck, curved astir him and changeable the puck past Hofer connected the instrumentality broadside for a 1-0 pb astatine 2:34 of the 2nd period.

Buchnevich tied it up aft Robert Thomas sent him a walk from down the nett retired beforehand and helium bushed Hellebuyck astatine 7:27. His 18th of the play extended his extremity streak to 3 successful 3 games.

Iafallo's extremity astatine 7:05 was his 14th extremity of the season. Lowry sent the puck into the bare nett with 9 seconds left.

Takeaways

Jets: Winnipeg was firing the puck successful the archetypal period, chalking up 31 changeable attempts to 8 for the Blues. The crippled tightened successful the mediate frame, 17-14 for the Jets successful the attempts department. Winnipeg killed 2 penalties and didn't let the Blues to person a changeable successful either one. Mark Scheifele assisted connected Lowry's goal, tying his vocation precocious successful points (84).

Blues: The Blues sacrificed their bodies from the get-go, blocking 12 shots successful the game's archetypal 11 minutes. Winnipeg hadn't blocked 1 and was up 4-1 for shots connected goal. Thomas's assistance connected Buchnevich's extremity extended his constituent streak to 9 games (four goals, 16 assists).

Key moment

After Buchnevich mislaid the puck on the boards, Kyle Connor scooped it up, changeable it astatine Hofer and Iafallo enactment successful the rebound to marque it 2-1 astatine 7:05 of the 3rd play with this 14th extremity of the season.

Key stat

The Jets person held their hostile to nether 30 shots successful 36 of the past 39 games, including 17 consecutive games. The people surpasses their play agelong of 16 games and is besides the longest agelong successful the league this season.