In the first two games in their series with the Blues of St. Louis, the Winnipeg jets managed to overcome certain not so large departures to win the two competitions.
But in match 3 in Saint-Louis, they could not get out of an early hole, falling 7-2 while their series advance was cut in half.
The jets rendered three goals in the first period and four others in the final setting to hunt Connor Hellebuyck from the match while the Blues won their 13th consecutive home match on February 23.
“It’s a match,” said head coach Scott Arniel. “We lost a match. Whether 7-2 or 1, we lost a match in the series.
“We lost the match in the first period. Scored two goals in the first three minutes, we got on the heels, the crowd became behind them. We were terrible in the first period. The match was finished in the first.”
The jets have now lost four consecutive games 3 and are only 3-9 all time in the third pivot game in the series.
Pavel Buchnevich scored only 48 seconds in the match before adding a little more than two minutes later and he recorded a hat trick for an effort of four points. Cam Fowler collected five points with a goal and four aid, while Robert Thomas finished with four assists.
The Blues recorded the first seven shots on the goal of the match and exceeded Winnipeg 15-7 in the opening period.
“We did not execute in the first period and especially in the first 10 minutes,” said jets defender Josh Morrissey. “You lose this match in overtime, you lose the game as we did, it’s the same result. The playoffs consist of turning the page, learning the lessons and improving over the series.
“We will therefore examine the areas that we must improve. Obviously, the beginning as I refer to, and turn the page, and I think it’s important. ”
David Gustafsson and Neal Pionk marked the objectives of the jets in the loss.
Dylan Demelo missed the match with an illness while Colin Miller made his series debut in his absence.
With the jets followed by three goals in the second period, Jordan Binnington made a safeguard of gloves on Cole Perfetti, but it seemed that his trapper was on the other side of the goal line.
The game was examined, but it was determined that there was no conclusive evidence to call it a goal. Perfetti did not agree with the decision that would have made a two goals’ game.
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“I saw a video on the bench that seemed quite obvious,” said Perfetti. “I don’t know what angle they saw. From what I understand, they said that they did not have an angle and during this time, it was on the dashboard and their crowd went AH. Depending on their reaction, I thought it was in the net. I thought you could see the washer on its side in its glove, and its glove in the net. I don’t know what else you had to do.
“I thought it was a goal, but who knows. I don’t really know. “
“There was no white speed image that showed that the washer was above the red line,” said Arniel. “It may seem.
After two silent games, Buchnevich started the scoring just 48 seconds. If the washer crossed the line, it would probably have been prohibited for a kick movement, but he obtained his stick on the washer just before entering the net, a good goal to give the Blues the first lead.
The blues found themselves on a power game a few minutes later and Buchnevich scored again, this time by redirecting a pass of Thomas after Hellebuyck to the brand 3:11 to do it 2-0.
St. Louis continued to dominate over the period and while the jets tried to stabilize at the end of the first, another goal from St. Louis really removed the wind from Winnipeg sails.
It started as a simple escape from the ice for the blues while Thomas wore the washer in the end of Winnipeg, but nobody picked up Fowler while he was moving in the middle, passing in front of Alex Iafallo before collecting a pass from Thomas and cable it in front of Hellebucyck to do it 3-0 at 3:51 p.m.
Neither of the two teams scored in the second period, although Winnipeg had several power to try to return to the match and to one of them, they thought they had a goal.
Just around the point halfway through the second, Binnington seemed to have stolen Perfetti with a large backup of gloves, although Perfetti immediately pointed the net, suggesting that the binnington glove was behind the goal when the washer entered.
After an examination of almost five minutes which seemed to show the washer on the line, the officials left the call on the ice, the NHL saying that “there was no conclusive video proof to overthrow the call of the referees on the ice”.
There did not seem to be a lot of hope for Winnipeg, but a little more than four minutes after the start of the third, their fourth line finally found a way to pass a binnington past. Jaret Anderson-Dolan led the washer widely in the end of the blues, attracting two defenders to him and releasing space for Gustafsson in the slit. He took a pass from Anderson-Dolan and buried him to do it 3-1 with 15:29 on the left.
But any hope generated by this objective was short -lived due to a Hellebuyck error.
After the blues threw the washer, Hellebuyck went behind the net to play it but while he was trying to clean the washer. A forefront from Thomas eliminated him from his stick and right to Buchnevich, who tabled the washer in an open net for his third goal of the night at only 53 seconds after the goal of Gustafsson.
St. Louis added another on a 5-sur 3 with 12:04 to play while Jordan Kyrou came into play, pulling a Wrister over Hellebuyck through a screen.
The nightmarish evening for jets was not yet over.
The blues did 6-2 after Luke Schenn was hammered by a Radek Faksa, which withdrew Schenn’s washer and sent a pass pass to Jake Neighbors, whose slot pass was directed in front of the presumptive of Vezina Trophy Ginner Night with 9:28 in the third.
Winnipeg obtained one on the power game with 7:10 on the left while Pionk beat Binnington with a single shooter from the point, but the blues then scored another goal of power game with 3:43 to do while Colton Parayko struck a game a year after Eric Comrie on the first time that Comrie faced the game.
It was also the fourth goal for the Blues on only five shots in the third.
St. Louis would end the evening with seven goals on 28 shots with Hellebuyck granting six on 25 shots.
Binnington won the victory, having only to make 16 stops in the match.
The blues also went 3-in-8 on the power game and now have six power in the series just two for the jets.
The upper line of the jets, after an excellent start to the series, was retained from the match sheet. Kyle Connor finished the match with a note less-four years while Aafallo and Mark Scheifele were each less than three.
The jets will try to bounce back in match 4 of the series Sunday afternoon in St. Louis. The washer falls right afternoon with a pre-match cover on 680 CJOB from 10 a.m.