Jets defeat Oilers to end skid but lose Scheifele

WINNIPEG -- Joel Armia scored two goals to lift the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 win against the Edmonton Oilers at Bell MTS Place on Wednesday.
Jets center Mark Scheifele left the game with an upper-body injury after he was knocked down by Oilers defenseman Brandon Davidson and crashed into the boards in the second period.

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"We'll get a real good look at it for tomorrow. Initially, I would say it doesn't look very good," coach Paul Maurice said. "… I should have a pretty good handle on it by [tomorrow]."

Scheifele has 38 points (15 goals, 23 assists), second on the Jets behind linemate Blake Wheeler's 42, after he had an NHL career-high 82 in 79 games last season.
"You're just hoping it's the wind knocked out of them, they're rolling around," Maurice said. "He doesn't go down easily and he certainly doesn't lay on the ice ever. So, you know if he's down, it's significant."
Bryan Little and Kyle Connor scored for the Jets (21-11-6), who won for the first time in three games. Connor Hellebuyck made 22 saves, including two in the final 30 seconds.

"That's why I love the game," Hellebuyck said. "It's exciting. Our guys played so well in front of me. They were blocking everything. I know I'm not going to be able to see a whole lot, but I know the guys in front of me are going to be working. I've just got to work to see the ones that are my job, and when it does hit me, I've got to hold it."
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist, Connor McDavid had two assists, and Jesse Puljujarvi and Jujhar Khaira scored for the Oilers (17-18-2), whose four-game winning streak came to an end. Cam Talbot made 35 saves.

"I thought that the work ethic and the commitment to wanting to work hard was there tonight, but our smarts, our hockey smarts, didn't exist," Oilers coach Todd McLellan said.
Draisaitl gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead when he scored a shorthanded goal at 6:17 of the first period. McDavid got to the puck after it skipped past Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba at the Oilers blue line, rushed into the Jets zone, and dropped a pass to Draisaitl at the top of the crease for a tap-in on a 2-on-0.
Little tied it 1-1 at 8:12 when he ended his 12-game goal drought. It was his 710th game for the Jets/Atlanta Thrashers, passing forward Chris Thorburn for most in franchise history.
Armia gave Winnipeg a 2-1 lead when he scored on a wrist shot at 14:44.

"I felt good," he said. "My feet were moving the whole game. That's what got me the chances to score goals."
Puljujarvi tied it 2-2 at 16:07, scoring off the rebound of Kris Russell's point shot.
Connor made it 3-2 54 seconds into the second period when he scored off a give-and-go with Wheeler, who passed Ilya Kovalchuk for most assists in Jets/Thrashers history (288).
Armia scored his second of the game at 9:48 to make it 4-2.
Khaira cut the Jets lead to 4-3 at 10:35.

Goal of the game

Armia's goal at 9:48 of the second period.

Save of the game

Hellebuyck stopping Milan Lucic at 19:30 of the third period.

Highlight of the game

Draisaitl's goal at 6:17 of the first period.

They said it

"That's my running mate, man. That's part of my livelihood, a big part of what we do as a team. Irreplaceable. Just fingers crossed." -- Jets forward Blake Wheeler on center Mark Scheifele leaving the game with an upper-body injury
"A lot of times, we were stepping up in the neutral zone, we had poor support in behind. Face-off execution, number of turnovers -- stuff that we need to do a much better job of against a team like that." -- Oilers coach Todd McLellan
"I thought just the sharpness in our game wasn't there. It led to a lot of their opportunities, which I thought we kind of fed into it. Good news is we get these guys in a couple days to show what we really have."-- Oilers center Mark Letestu

Need to know

Draisaitl has one goal and eight assists during a five-game point streak. ... McDavid has 15 points (four goals, 11 assists) in his past 12 games. … Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers extended his point streak to five games (two goals, three assists) with an assist on Little's goal.

What's next

Oilers: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday (9 p.m. ET; SN1, SNO, SNE, SNP, NBCSCH, NHL.TV)
Jets: Host the New York Islanders on Friday (8 p.m. ET; TSN3, MSG+ 2, NHL.TV)