Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)
With a special teams win the Jets were able to get back on track defeating their Central Division rival Blues by a final score of 3-1. They improve to 4-2 in the second game of back-to-backs.
For those who would like to take a deeper dive into the advanced stats click here to see the results from the game via Natural Stat Trick.
Heritage Classic preliminary roster announcement:
About an hour and half before the game got underway Sara Orlesky introduced Blake Wheeler and Mike Keane with a preliminary media chat discussing the upcoming Heritage Classic next October. You can watch it here.
We also heard from both captains in media scrums which you can watch here.
Notable:
Tonight marked game number 250 in the career of Logan Stanley.
Second straight game for Isaak Phillips in a Jets uniform and first in Winnipeg.
Five straight seasons that Josh Morrissey has scored at least 10 goals (or more) as he reached that number with the first goal of the game.
11 straight seasons Mark Scheifele has hit the 60 point mark. He also takes the lead from Kyle Connor with 62 game-winning goals.
The win improves the Jets to 20-23-6 which ties them with the Blues with 46 points (although Winnipeg has played one fewer game).
Multi Point Game:
Mark Scheifele 2G 1A
Josh Morrissey 1G 2A
Kyle Connor 2A
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