Josh Morrissey scored once in a three-point game to lead the visiting Winnipeg Jets to a 5-3 comeback victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
Nino Niederreiter and Alex Iafallo both collected one goal and one assist while Jonathan Toews and Gabriel Vilardi added single tallies for the Jets, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Winnipeg goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves.
Kiefer Sherwood, Jake DeBrusk and Brock Boeser scored for the Canucks, who have lost three of their past four outings (1-2-1). Starting goaltender Thatcher Demko surrendered three goals on eight shots in the first period before departing due to an undisclosed injury. Kevin Lankinen turned aside 20 of 21 shots in relief.
Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes collected three assists, and Elias Pettersson posted two assists.
A few minutes after the Jets fell behind 2-1, Morrissey tied the clash at 14:38 of the first period by unloading a slap shot from the top of the slot on a power play.
Niederreiter made it a 3-2 affair on the ensuing shift when Adam Lowry’s shot attempt banked off his skate as he drove to the net.
Vilardi extended the lead with another power-play goal 48 seconds into the third period, burying a top-shelf backhand shot from the low slot. The Jets had failed to score a power-play goal in their previous four games.
Boeser made it a 4-3 game with 90 seconds remaining in regulation, but Iafallo notched an empty-net goal to round out the scoring.
Both clubs failed to hold a lead in a back-and-forth start.
Toews opened the scoring at 4:57 of the first period when he redirected Morrissey’s sharp-angled pass.
The Canucks answered with a pair of goals 97 seconds apart just past the midway point of the opening frame.
Sherwood tied the clash at 10:21 by completing a give-and-go with Hughes during an odd-man rush, and then DeBrusk put the hosts ahead with a power-play goal at 11:58 by burying a short-side shot off the rush after he was sprung by a long pass from Hughes. DeBrusk has recorded a goal in three consecutive games and four of the past five.
–Field Level Media
