Dawson Mercer and Kyle Connor each scored twice to lead the Winnipeg Jets to an emotional 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
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Mercer → score → night
The game marked the anticipated return of former Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to Winnipeg for the first time since his trade to the Devils, although he did not play.
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he → mark → Devils
Instead, Jake Allen started in net and stopped 21 shots for New Jersey.
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Allen → start → Jersey
Former Devils netminder Nico Daws made 19 saves for Winnipeg.
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Daws → make → Winnipeg
Cody Glass and Jesper Bratt scored for the Devils.
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Glass → score → Devils
The victory extended Winnipeg’s win streak to four games, and halted New Jersey’s at five games.
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victory → extend → games
After Mercer gave the Jets a 3-2 lead on the power play at 11:58 of the third period, Connor sealed the outcome with an unassisted empty-net goal.
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Connor → give → goal
The Devils, who trailed 2-0 after the first period, tied the game in the second period with a pair of goals 44 seconds apart.
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who → trail → goals
Bratt scored at 1:14 on a setup from Arseny Gritsyuk from behind the net.
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Bratt → score → net
Jack Hughes also assisted to extend his point streak to six games.
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Hughes → assist → games
Glass tied the game at 1:58 when he deflected Jonathan Kovacevic’s shot past Daws.
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he → tie → Daws
Connor scored during a two-man advantage at 15:06 of the first period when he deflected Cole Perfetti’s pass past Allen.
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he → score → Allen
Mark Scheifele also assisted, moving him into a second-place tie with Dale Hawerchuk in assists in franchise history with 550.
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Scheifele → assist → 550
Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:
AVALANCHE 6 MAPLE LEAFS 3
TORONTO (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog scored his second goal of the game early in the third period to put Colorado ahead for good in a win over Toronto.
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Landeskog → score → Toronto
Devon Toews, with a goal and an assist, Brock Nelson, Artturi Lehkonen and Martin Necas in an empty net also scored for Colorado.
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Nelson → score → Colorado
Cale Makar added two assists and Mackenzie Blackwood made 28 saves.
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Blackwood → add → saves
Darren Raddysh and Easton Cowan, with a goal and an assist each, and Jack Roslovic scored for Toronto, which has lost four games in a row and dropped six of its last seven.
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which → score → seven
Sergei Bobrovksy finished with 22 stops.
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Bobrovksy → finish → stops
The 38-year-old goaltender — a two-time Stanley Cup champion and two-time Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s top netminder — has allowed three goals or more in 12 of his 13 starts since signing in free agency July 1.
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goaltender → allow → agency
Landeskog scored the go-ahead goal at 5:02 of the third, just 51 seconds after Roslovic tied the score 3-3.
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Roslovic → score → score
Raddysh’s blast that gave Toronto a 1-0 lead was clocked at 92.89 miles per hour — the fourth fastest shot to result in a goal across the league this season, according to the NHL.
CAPITALS 3 SENATORS 2 (OT)
OTTAWA, Ont. (AP) — Cole Hutson’s goal 74 seconds into overtime, set up by Alex Ovechkin, gave Washington a win over Ottawa.
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goal → give → Ottawa
The Capitals overcame a horrid second period in which they allowed two goals and trailed 2-1.
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they → overcome → goals
Matt Roy and Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored for the Capitals (10-6-0).
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Roy → score → Capitals
Logan Thompson made 23 saves.
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Thompson → make → saves
Ridly Greig and Hayden Hodgson scored for the Senators (11-6-2).
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Greig → score → Senators
Samuel Ersson stopped 14 shots.
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Ersson → stop → shots
Outshot 17-2 in the second period, Washington went more than 20 minutes before registering its next shot in the third period.
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Washington → outshoot → period
The Capitals showed life on the power play and maintained control after it expired and capitalized with Hutson finding Dubois at the side of the net for a wide-open shot to tie it at 2-all at 12:31 of the third.
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Hutson → show → third
Ersson made a big save on Jack St. Ivany with four minutes remaining to keep the game tied.
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game → make → minutes
With 2:57 remaining Jakob Chychrun levelled a huge hit on Nick Cousins, but no penalty was called.
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penalty → remain → Cousins
Cousins needed help getting off the ice.
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Cousins → need → ice
WILD 2 CANADIENS 1 (OT)
MONTREAL (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored on a power play in the opening minute of overtime and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves as Minnesota beat Montreal after Carey Price was inducted into the Canadiens’ Ring of Honour.
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Price → score → Honour
Bobby Brink scored in regulation for Minnesota (13-3-4).
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Brink → score → Minnesota
Kaprizov scored on a one-timer on the power play 21 seconds into the extra period for his 17th goal of the season.
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Kaprizov → score → season
Canadiens forward Cole Caufield was penalized for slashing as Quinn Hughes’ stick broke in the corner, sending Minnesota on the power play with 56 seconds remaining in regulation.
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stick → penalize → regulation
Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal (11-3-4), which extended its streak without a regulation loss to 11 games (8-0-3).
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which → score → games
Jacob Fowler stopped 22 shots.
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Fowler → stop → shots
Suzuki tied the game with a wild goal at 18:22 in the third period.
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Suzuki → tie → period
With the goalie pulled, Caufield’s sharp-angled shot ricocheted off Wallstedt — twice — and the post before landing in the crease before Suzuki jammed it through a crowd.
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Suzuki → pull → crowd
After two periods without a goal, Brink broke the deadlock 2:53 into the third when he beat Fowler with a shot to the glove side on a breakaway.
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he → break → breakaway
…and 27 more, not listed.
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