Three things - Top line dominant in Montreal

The Winnipeg Jets started their three-game road trip in style beating the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 at the Bell Centre. Kyle Connor scored twice, Mark Scheifele and Rasmus Kupari had the other goals for the Jets who won their fourth straight and improved their record to 35-14-3. Scheifele is now at 326 career goals and is three goals away from becoming the franchise leader in that department, Ilya Kovalchuk (328) is the current leader. Winnipeg travels to Boston and will face the Bruins on Thursday.

TOP LINE DOING TOP LINE THINGS

The Canadiens came out looking to take the game to the Jets in the first period and got on the board first thanks to Juraj Slafkovsky at 11:03, Montreal outshot Winnipeg 12-4 at that point of the period. The Jets took over in the final five minutes of the first, Kyle Connor would tie the game at 15:36 pouncing on a Dylan DeMelo rebound and beat Samuel Montembeault for his 28^th of the season.

Winnipeg carried play for the majority of the second period and took the lead for the first time at 10:44 when Scheifele went to the front of the net and fired home a perfect pass from Gabe Vilardi for his 29^th. In total, Connor, Scheifele and Vilardi combined for five points.

GUS STREAKING

David Gustafsson played in his 15^th consecutive game and his confidence keeps growing and tonight he extended his career high point streak to four games. With time winding down in the second and Montreal pressing, Gustafsson won a puck battle behind the Canadiens net and passed to Connor who scored his second of the night to make it 3-1 at 19:58.

"There were five or six seconds left when I looked up and Gustafsson made an incredible play down low to win that battle," said Connor.

"They lost coverage and I found some time in the slot. He did all the work there and teed it up for me."

ANOTHER ONE FOR HELLEBUYCK

Connor Hellebuyck watched Eric Comrie win his fourth game of the season on Sunday against Calgary. Tonight, Hellebuyck held his team in the game while the Canadiens pressed in the first 15 minutes of the contest. Montreal pushed again in the third period, but Hellebuyck closed the door making one of his best saves of the night on Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki, who was left all alone in front, Hellebuyck stopped Suzuki with his right pad. The Vezina Trophy winner stopped 24 of 25 shots and won his 31^st game of the season. Hellebuyck has helped the Jets earn a point in 18 of his past 20 starts (16-2-2) and has held the opponent to two or fewer goals in seven of his past eight games.