On Saturday night, the seventh-place Winnipeg Jets travelled to British Columbia to face the first-place Vancouver Canucks.
Gabe Vilardi scored twice, Mark Scheifele had a goal and three assists, and Sean Monahan scored his first goal as a Jet in Winnipeg’s 4-2 victory over the top-seeded Canucks.
The two Canadian Western Conference rivals combined for 20 shots in the first period, but neither could score.
In a game dubbed a goaltending matchup, Thatcher Demko (30 wins) and Hellebuyck (26 wins) both kept clean sheets in the first 20 minutes.
However, everything changed just moments after the puck was dropped in the middle stanza.
Only 19 seconds into the game, the Canucks scored their first goal thanks to a fluky bounce. Conor Garland carried the puck into the Jets’ zone before banking it off Adam Lowry’s skate during an attempted centering pass. Noah Juulsen swooped in and fired the disc past Hellebuyck, his first goal since 2018.
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