Jets Earn Valuable Points in Divisional Win Over Avalanche

The Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 on Thursday.

The Winnipeg Jets have improved to 15-8-2, as the team put up its third-straight win, a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.

Kyle Connor scored twice, Josh Morrissey potted the winner, while Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves, as the Jets picked up their seventh win in their past 10 games.

Starting off the four-game road trip in Colorado, Winnipeg relied on a strong penalty kill (which went 4/4 on the evening) and a never-say-die attitude.

With the seconds ticking down in the opening frame, speedy Axel Jonsson-Fjallby beat out the Avalanche to a loose puck along the boards and found Adam Lowry in tight, who buried his fifth of the year with just two seconds left on the clock.

Despite a twenty minute intermission, the Jets scored just 35 seconds of game-time later, as Connor picked up his first of the game 32 seconds into the second off a spinning wrist shot that found its way through Alexander Georgiev.

Nathan McKinnon extended his point streak to 10 games as he cut Winnipeg's lead in half, but Morrissey found his fifth of the season to regain the two-goal advantage.

Joel Kiviranta made it 3-2 in the final minute of the middle stanza, before the teams played through a near-scoreless third.

Connor put the cherry on top with his 17th goal of the season, moving into a tie with Nikita Kucherov and Sam Reinhart for second in league scoring behind Vancouver's Brock Boeser (18 goals). 

Winnipeg will now travel further west to Anaheim, as the team begins a three-game-in-four-night trek through California on Sunday.