The Winnipeg Jets hosted the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, October 11th at the Canada Life Centre and defeated the Hawks in overtime. It started off completely scoreless until Chicago scored the first goal of the game. The Jets came in late in the third to tie the game with 1:04 remaining in regulation, then went on to spend little time in overtime, scoring only 38 seconds in, to wrap it up for a 2-1 victory. Mark Scheifele had scored both goals for Winnipeg, defeating the Blackhawks with his 300th NHL goal. Ryan Donato scored for Chicago, and Arvid Soderblom put on an excellent performance for the Blackhawks, making 33 saves.
Blackhawks Lineup:
Foligno – Bedard – Teravainen
Hall – Kurashev – Bertuzzi
Mikheyev – Dickinson – Anderson
Maroon – Athanasiou – Donato
Martinez – Jones
Vlasic – Brodie
Kaiser – Murphy
Soderblom
Mrazek
Jets Lineup:
Connor – Sheifele – Vilardi
Niederreiter – Lowry – Appleton
Perfetti – Namestnikov – Ehlers
Barron – Kupari – Iafallo
Morrissey – DeMelo
Samberg – Pionk
Fleury – Miller
Hellebuyck
Comrie
After a scoreless opening 20, Ryan Donato opened the scoring late in the middle frame with 3:08 remaining on the clock. He carried the puck to the left face-off circle and sent a whistling wrister past Connor Hellebuyck after Patrick Maroon had chipped a pass off of the left wall through the neutral zone. This ended Hellebuyck’s shutout streak at 96:51 to begin the regular season after making 30 saves on Wednesday.
Alex Iafallo had a chance for the Jets in the third when he took a centering pass from Haydn Fleury for a backhand shot in the slot, however, he was turned away by Arvid Soderblom. Getting denied twice in 9 seconds by Soderblom, Mason Appleton was first denied when he attempted to put a wrist shot from the far wall past him, and then on a diving wraparound attempt for the second time. However, Mark Scheifele‘s game-tying goal was not denied by Soderblom… Scheifele tied the game with only 1:04 remaining in regulation when he scored off a rebound of a sharp-angled shot by Nikolaj Ehlers with a backhand just outside of the crease.
For his 300th NHL goal, Mark Scheifele struck the game-winning goal only 38 seconds into overtime. He received a pass from Kyler Connor and tipped it in past Arvid Soderblom in the slot.
Mark Scheifele on the overtime win, scoring, and his 300th NHL career goal: “We had chances all night. Great help on the face-off by all the guys… Obviously, when 6-on-5 there are so many guys, you get the puck to the net, and good things happen. I was just lucky enough to be there and put her home,” – “We hit some crossbars, we had some good chances… that’s the way hockey goes. Sometimes it takes 59 minutes to get one home and bring it to overtime. It’s never over till it’s over – It’s pretty humbling to think about… it’s pretty wild. I’m very thankful for the guys I’ve played with, I’m lucky enough to play with some really good players. It’s all thanks to them.”
Ryan Donato on the Hawks’ performance, Arvid Soderblom almost getting a shutout, and Pat Maroon: “We played a solid game. Sodie played great. You got to play 60 minutes of good hockey, not 59. At the end of the day, we did some good things, but it’s just not good enough,” – “He did everything that he should’ve to earn one. He played a heck of a game – Patty is definitely a guy that can make plays. So, anytime I’m out there with him, I’m trying to let him know where I am. He’s pretty good at finding guys. So, it was a good play by him.”
Notes:
– Connor Hellebuyck made a total of 25 saves for the Winnipeg Jets.
– With his 300th career NHL goal for the Jets/Atlanta Thrashers franchise, Mark Scheifele joins Ilya Kovalchuk (328 goals in 594 games). Scheifele became the first Jets/Atlanta Thrashers player to score both a tying goal in the final two minutes of regulation and the game-winning goal in the first minute of overtime… Patrik Laine is the only other player in franchise history who has tied a game in the final two minutes of regulation and win it at any point in overtime.
– Mark Scheifele is the second player from the 2011 NHL Draft to score 300 goals. He joins Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, who has 323.
– Goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen had been claimed by the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, October 11th, one day after the Winnipeg Jets placed him on waivers.
– In the third period, Winnipeg had a 16-8 shot advantage.
– The Blackhawks were outshot 7-2 until late in the first frame when a backhand on a breakaway by Andreas Athanasiou had been stopped by Connor Hellebuyck with a glove save.
