Perreault scores 100th career goal in Jets win over Canucks

Perreault finished the night with three points to pull him into a tie with Bryan Little for sixth on the team in points with 18.
"He would be at his highest point-per-game production of his career, I would assume," said head coach Paul Maurice of Perreault, who has 15 of his points in the 14 games he's played since returning from injury.
"He's able to play with some players that he can create some offence with… He's been impactful and that's what's important."
Kulikov's second of the season opened the scoring for the Jets (18-8-5). Jacob Markstrom got a piece of the Russian's wrist shot from the point, but not enough, as it slid through the five hole to make it 1-0.
Brock Boeser would even things up, when the Jets were hemmed in their own end, Henrik Sedin sent a pass from behind the goal line to Boeser in the slot, where the UND alum had found open space, and fired a wrist shot past Hellebuyck's stick side.
"You come to the rink hopeful every day and optimistic, those are the games you're worried about. Especially with that schedule, then coming back off the East," said Maurice.
"What is difficult to do, is what they did. They got better in the second period. We survived the first. There are times in the National Hockey League when you need to survive. We did that in the first. Come out even, and then get better and stronger.

"There wasn't anything about that game that was easy for us."
The Jets would get the lead back nearly five minutes into the second. Just as Sam Gagner's holding the stick penalty expired, Bryan Little sent a pass from the left face off dot down to Joel Armia at the goal line, who sent a one touch pass to Perreault in the slot for his first of the night.
Later in the period, Ehlers used his speed to draw a hooking penalty on Nic Dowd, then made sure to make it count on the scoreboard, when he buried his third goal in three games off a rebound from a Tyler Myers slap shot on the power play.
It was the ninth time in the last six games the Jets had scored on the man advantage.
"One of the things that's been good, and going back to November, is that if one unit couldn't find it, then the other one did. And (Bryan Little's) group got us going there in November. That instilled lots of confidence," said Maurice. "The first goal, it's a power play goal, and the end a de facto power play goal, just a puck to the net. It got us going. And those guys got the power play going a month and a half ago."
Morrissey's fourth of the season would also be the fourth goal the Jets would get, as the defenceman joined the rush on the left wing and put away a crisp crossing pass from Adam Lowry with 8:22 to go in regulation.

"(He) made a great pass there and it was nice to bury that one. More importantly, it's a big win for our team," said Morrissey, who was one of three defencemen to register a point in the win.
"As a back end we're always pretty happy when the d-men are getting involved… We want to have our d-men involved in our offence when it's the right time. We saw a little bit of a reward tonight, which is nice for the back end."
Perreault would add his second of the game with 44 seconds to go to make it 5-1.
"We're looking ahead at what's coming," said Perreault. "That road trip wasn't good for us. But we've already forgot about it. Tonight we came out to play a solid game, and we did that. Now we're looking forward to our next game."
ICE CHIPS
Despite being "quite ill" and missing the morning skate, Blake Wheeler played 18:54 in tonight's win, including 2:23 on the power play.
"We had a lot of guys with not very much in the tank," said Maurice, after his team completed a stretch of 15 games in 28 days tonight. "So no part of our game was easy."
Tucker Poolman played 13:33 in his first NHL action since Oct. 17, and his first game action of any sort since his recall on Nov. 19.