Just 34 seconds after Ehlers tied the game at 1 early in the third with a slap shot from the top of the left circle, Evangelista took a feed from Tommy Novak in the low slot and banked a shot off of Hellebuyck and into the net. In overtime, Pionk was able to get a tap-in off of a shot attempt from Pierre-Luc Dubois. “If we take care of business on our end, we play them again, we’ll put ourselves in the driver’s seat to control our own destiny.” “Obviously, you’d love to win in regulation, take all two,” Lowry said. The Predators trail Winnipeg by five points in the chase for the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth, though Nashville has played three fewer games. “Big magnitude game, lot of guys playing in the first game of that magnitude in the NHL. “I was really proud of our guys,” Predators coach John Hynes said.

We were really happy with our overall team game for 60 minutes.”Ĭody Glass and Luke Evangelista scored and Juuse Saros made 30 saves for the Predators, who have lost two straight. “Give their goaltender (credit), he was outstanding. “We played well enough to win that in regulation,” Jets coach Rick Bowness said. Nikolaj Ehlers and Adam Lowry also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves for Winnipeg, which snapped a two-game losing streak. Neal Pionk scored 55 seconds into overtime to give the Winnipeg Jets a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday.

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