Jets win in OT, end Lightning's eight-game winning streak

WINNIPEG --The Winnipeg Jets won their fifth consecutive game and ended the Tampa Bay Lightning's eight-game winning streak when Mark Scheifele scored with 42 seconds left in overtime for a 5-4 victory at Bell MTS Place on Sunday.

Scheifele, who also had two assists for his third straight three-point game, beat Andrei Vasilevskiy from the slot to give the Jets their third straight victory in overtime. Scheifele has scored 21 goals this season, including three overtime goals in his past nine games.
"We got our chances and it wasn't always pretty, but we kept on grinding and grinding and sometimes you need those in games like that," Scheifele said.
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Scheifele is the second player in Jets/Atlanta Thrashers history to score a regular-season overtime goal in consecutive team games. Kyle Connor did it last season on March 20 and March 23.
Nikolaj Ehlers had two goals and an assist, and Mathieu Perreault and Brandon Tanev also scored for the Jets (22-9-2). Connor Hellebuyck made 42 saves.
"We did a pretty good job," Jets forward Blake Wheeler. "That's four [games] in six [days] for us and that back-to-back here and Chicago was a little bit crazy. We were kind of reeling coming into the game, but I thought after the first period we did some good things."

Steven Stamkos had a goal and an assist, and Alex Killorn, Tyler Johnson and Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning (25-7-2). Vasilevskiy finished with 37 saves.
"We've got to be quick and assertive when you got the puck on your stick and anticipate your next play," Lightning defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. "We used our speed against them, and they did it to us too."
Killorn gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead when he beat Hellebuyck with a backhand at 13:01 of the first period for a power-play goal. Vasilevskiy got an assist after his long pass caught Winnipeg on a line change.
Perreault extended his goal-scoring streak to four games and tied the game 1-1 with a power-play goal at 19:43.
Winnipeg took a 2-1 lead when Tanev scored at 8:36 of the second, but Stamkos tied it 2-2 on a point shot 37 seconds later. Johnson made it 3-2 at 18:09, but Ehlers pulled the Jets even 3-3 at 19:19.
"I think it was an entertaining game for fans," Killorn said. "I know a lot of people were probably watching just because of where we stand in the East and where they stand in the West. I thought it was an entertaining game. Obviously, a lot of goals being scored. We don't want to allow that many, but it was a good game."
Kucherov put the Lightning ahead 4-3 with a power-play goal at 6:55 of the third period, extending his point streak to five games (two goals, four assists). However, Ehlers scored his second of the game at 14:23 to tie it 4-4.
"In the end," McDonagh said, "it's a stinging feeling for sure when you have a lead like that late on the road and can't find a way to close it out."

They said it

"Just look at the guys out on the ice for both teams. That's some of the faces of the League were out there and that's what happens. You give guys open ice and they can make plays. That's what Scheifele did." -- Lightning coach Jon Cooper
"They were the story because if either was a half-step off, you're losing that game. So I think that Connor [Hellebuyck] had more traffic, smaller-area tip plays that he would have been very difficult to get a handle on to make that a clean game. I thought he had a little more chaos. And we got some pretty good seam shots that [Vasilevskiy] got over on and made some pretty good saves, too. There was a number of those really high-end chances." -- Jets coach Paul Maurice on goaltenders Andrei Vasilevskiy and Connor Hellebuyck

Need to know

Tampa Bay led in shot attempts 86-68. Stamkos has 14 points (nine goals, five assists) in his past eight games. Point has 24 points (12 goals, 12 assists) in his past 16 games. ... Scheifele has 17 points (seven goals, 10 assists) in his past 10 games and 14 points (five goals, nine assists) during a five-game point streak. Byfuglien has one goal and seven assists during a five-game point streak.

What's next

Lightning: At the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday (10 p.m. ET; SNP, SUN, NHL.TV)
Jets: At the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday (10:30 p.m. ET; FS-W, TSN3, NHL.TV)