Dawn, Fla. (AP) — Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 32 pictures he confronted, Dylan Samberg and Mason Appleton each experienced two helps and the Winnipeg Jets shut out the Florida Panthers 3- on Friday night time.
Nino Niederreiter, Nikolaj Ehlers and Adam Lowry scored for the Jets in coach Rick Bowness’ return from personal depart. Winnipeg is 12-5-2 on the year and went 9-2-2 underneath interim coach Scott Arniel though Bowness was absent.
“You can chat about all of the X’s and O’s you want but I just enjoy the way we’re sticking up for every other,” Bowness stated. “In these scrums, we’re correct in the center of it and there is a good deal of heart in that room. There is a whole lot of camaraderie in that home and I really like the society we’ve acquired heading listed here.”
Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 will save for the Panthers, who fell to 12-7-1.
The shutout was the to start with of the season for Hellebuyck, who experienced by no means just before blanked the Panthers. It was the 33rd normal-season shutout of Hellebuyck’s job.
“I believe that is a significant assurance strengthen for him,” Niederreiter stated of Hellebuyck. “He’s been participating in some great hockey, he stopped a good deal of pucks and he stood on his head.”
Florida was blanked on dwelling ice for the initially time in its past 127 online games, including playoffs. It ended the longest streak of game titles with at least a single purpose at property in club record. Before Friday, the very last time Florida was shut out in Sunrise was a 3- reduction to Dallas on Feb. 24, 2021 — a match played prior to about 3,000 followers because of the pandemic.
“There’s variables, not excuses,” Panthers mentor Paul Maurice explained. “There’s no excuse. We were being (terrible) tonight. The element is that they get fired up. There are 15 game titles tonight, I think 13 of the street groups are heading to earn them for the reason that there is way too substantially turkey eaten by the house crew. We introduced a handful of drumsticks out on the ice tonight.”
As Maurice spoke, street teams were going 11-1-1 in the very first 13 games that were being done Friday — some in routs. Tampa Bay won in Carolina 8-2, Nashville won 8-3 in St. Louis and Edmonton won 5- in Washington.
Winnipeg is now 4– in its final four game titles against Florida. Which is the longest profitable streak the Jets’ franchise has loved about the Panthers given that Atlanta defeat Florida on six consecutive instances spanning 2006 and 2007. The Thrashers relocated and grew to become the Jets right after the 2010-11 time.
It was the initially occasion of again-to-again dwelling losses this period for Florida, which bought captain Aleksander Barkov in the lineup yet again. Barkov experienced missed two video games with a knee situation, but skated in the course of the 7 days and was cleared to return.
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Jets: Visit Nashville on Sunday.
Panthers: Pay a visit to Ottawa on Monday.
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