Jets winger Nikolaj Ehlers turns drought into a streak with goals in back to back games

After going 22 playoff games over the course of three seasons without scoring a goal, Jets winger Nikolaj Ehlers finally busted that streak in Monday’s Game 2 victory over the Calgary Flames as he put home the game-winner in the third period.

Photo Credit: Colby Spence

The Dashing Dane doesn’t have an issue putting the puck in the net during the regular season as he scored 20+ goals each of the last four seasons (and was on pace for around 30 goals this year had it concluded).

In the post-game last night Jets captain Blake Wheeler spoke about the impact scoring would have on Ehlers.

“….You guys have no idea what a lift that is, especially when you got to answer the same question postseason after postseason about why you’re not producing, especially a guy that’s used to doing it.  He’s gonna have a good sleep tonight and like I said we’re going to see some fireworks out of him, hopefully tomorrow.”

Fast forward 30 or so hours later and the speedy Nikolaj Ehlers has turned his goalless drought into a scoring streak as he opened the scoring in Game 3 with this nifty goal.

And the pass by Dmitry Kulikov to spring Ehlers deserves mention as it was lights out.

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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