Kyle Connor scored one goal and two for Vennipag Jets in a 5–3 win against Visiting St. Louis Blues in Game 5 of his Western Conference First Round Series on Wednesday night.
Jets took a 3–2 lead in the best-seven series for Game 6 on Friday at St. Louis.
Each of Vladislav Nemstnikov and Nino Underratter had a target and one assistance, Mason Apple had three assistants and Connor Helbuke made 16 saves for jets, which raised back with unilateral losses in game 3 and 4 in St. Louis.
Nathan Walker scored two goals, Jimmy Snugrad also scored in his 12th NHL game and Jordan Binington made 21 saves for the second wild-card team blues of Western Conference.
Jets scored three straight goals, when Snugrad shot it with a wrist and tied it with a shot from the right circle to the right, which slipped the pak between the hallabuke and the nearby post at 6:06 of the second period.
A point shot by Jets Defenseman Dylan Demelok closed St. Louis Defenseman Colon Paryako and in his own trap in his own trap to take Jets back at 3-2 to 11:05.
Blues took a 4–2 lead at 18:59 of the second when Namastanikov scored a backhand feed from Connor to finish another crowd.
Adam Lori scored in an empty net with 3:13 and made it 5–2.
Walker responded with a target of cutting it 5-3 with 53 seconds.
Vinypeg returned the Gabriel Willardi after the disappearance of 15 games with an upper body injury and he took the first shot on the goal before scoring a first goal at 1:23 with a 1-0 lead from Connor.
Appleton kicked the team’s partner Mark Sheffel behind the St. Louis Net and Sheffifel crossed it for connor for one-time with a left hash mark.
Blues quickly tied it to 1 at 3:42.
When he was stationed in front of Walker Hellabuyck after he was shot by Parayko from above the right circle.
Niederreiter then pulled in front of Binington and touched a shot to take Vinipag 2–1 at the earlier 8:39.
Scheifele did not return after the first period, as the first Briden in this period was due to the effects of the hit of Briden Shane, resulting in a penalty of intervention on the scan.
During the regular season, Scheifele was ranked second on Jets in Gol (37) and points (87).
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