The Jets seemed like a selfless team after the first 20 minutes, but a tough conversation seemed to do the trick to get everyone back on track. “They called us after the first,” said Paul Statsny, who scored the Jets’ third goal. He woke everyone up. We needed it for a long time, so it was very good to have it “. Nikolaj Ehlers had one goal and two assists, while Pierre-Luc Dubois scored the 100th goal of his NHL career and Kyle Connor’s goal in the third period proved to be a winner. The Jets will be without Mark Scheifele for Monday’s game in Montreal. Scheifele suffered an upper body injury in the second period and will be re-evaluated at Winnipeg. The Jets (34-28-11) would probably have ended up on the losing side, if not for the game of Connor Hellebuyck, who made 31 saves. After a goal late in the third, the Senators pulled the goalkeeper and Hellebuyck made some huge saves to avoid going into extra time. “This is probably the best we’ve seen six against five,” said Senators coach DJ Smith. “We were not very good six against five and we were dangerous and we had opportunities. That’s why Hellebuyck is one of the best goalkeepers in the league. “If you have an average goalkeeper there, we can get five or six tonight.” There was no doubt who was the best player of the night in the mind of interim coach Dave Lowry. “This is a goalkeeper victory,” said Lowry. “It gave us a chance in the first period. He was justifiably the only guy who started on time. He gave us the opportunity to start and then he made some huge saves at the end of the game for us as well “. Captain Brady Tkachuk led the way for the Senators (26-40-6) with a pair of power-play goals. Josh Norris also scored, while Mants Sogkaard, making his second start in the NHL, stopped 21 shots. Tim Stutzle returned to the Senators after missing the last two games, while Drake Batherson missed his third straight due to a non-COVID illness. This was the first time Stutzle had addressed the media since last week’s match in Montreal, when he was beaten by Nick Suzuki and later criticized by Brendan Gallagher. “I respect Gallagher as a player, I mean everyone has their own opinion,” said Stutzle. “They can say whatever they want. I have my own opinion, but in the end, as I said, I respect him as a player. “He is a veteran player, so that’s all I want to say about him.” The Senators had a disappointing 5-1 defeat to the Rangers on Saturday night and were looking forward to being redeemed. “We really wanted those two points tonight and as you can tell we were fighting until the last second,” Tkachuk said. “It will be disappointing, but we have to get through it.” After 3-1 to start the third, Tkachuk scored a power-play goal in the first minute, but Connor regained the two-goal lead with his own Jets Power-play goal. Tkachuk made things interesting, scoring the second power-play goal of the match with six minutes left. He pulled the elf out of the air and, after a long review, the target stood. Tkachuk was a threat throughout the game and proved to be an effective presence in the net. “I’m proud as there I feel I’m at my best it ‘s around the net causing chaos with the elves landing and I’m just hungry and trying to put them in the back of the net,” Tkachuk said. “But all these games are not done without their teammates succeeding and making good games around the net, shots, tips and we have a lot of kids sacrificing in front of the net.” After shouting, Winnipeg led 3-1 after two seasons. Dubois scored the 100th goal of his NHL career in power play early in the second when he took a straight pass and beat Sogaard away. Ehlers and Stastny had a nice two against one that ended with Stastny scoring in her 19th season. “I did not like our first period,” said Lowry. “I did not like the management of our foot, I did not like the pace at which we played, I did not like the (lack of) urgency in our game. In their honor, we had an answer in the second period and we did things in the second that we wanted to do at the beginning of the game “. Despite prevailing 12-5, the Jets managed to draw 1-1 in the first period. Ottawa opened the scoring in the first two minutes when Brady Tkachuk threw a pass from behind the goal line to Norris in front for his 32nd of the season. The Senators did a good job keeping a shot away from their young goalkeeper, but did not have many chances in Ellers’s goal. Ellers looked to make an ice-cross, but escaped Victor Mete’s wand and passed Sogkard. NOTES: Several members of the Canadian Olympic team, including Marie-Philip Poulin, attended a pre-match ceremony … his game and is unlikely to play Monday in Montreal.
