Jets Earn Both Points in Sunday Afternoon Test With Vancouver

The Winnipeg Jets have improved to 51-19-4 thanks to a 3-1 home victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday afternoon.

The game was decided in the third period, as Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti provided goals that pushed Vancouver further and further down the Western Conference playoff race. 

Kyle Connor scored Winnipeg's first goal in the second period on Sunday - his 38th of the season - after Pius Suter gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the opening frame.

But it was in the third where the Jets' depth wingers took over.

First, it was Appleton who gave Winnipeg its first lead of the game  with 13 minutes to play, before Perfetti dazzled with a sensational solo effort, beating Thatcher Demko with a wrist shot after a nifty toe drag. 

Winnipeg finished the game with 27 shots to Vancouver's 24. Connor Hellebuyck picked up his 43rd win of the season, making him just the third goaltender since 2001 with multiple seasons of 43+ wins. 

The matinee affair was Winnipeg's final test of a four-game homestand, to which the Jets will now hit the road for three games out west next week. Contests with Los Angeles, Vegas and Utah are on tap for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.