With a really inexperienced lineup, the Winnipeg Jets’ younger prospects fought to the bitter finish however nonetheless got here up quick towards the Edmonton Oilers with their large stars.
The Jets dressed solely 4 of their common forwards from final season in a 4-3 loss to the Oilers on Saturday in pre-season motion.
The Jets battled again from a two-goal third interval deficit to tie the sport at three apiece, however surrendered the game-winning objective with simply 1:56 left in regulation.
Jesse Puljujarvi scored a pair of objectives to cleared the path for Edmonton. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl every chipped in with two assists within the one-goal victory.
Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele and Josh Morrissey all had objectives for the Jets within the loss as they fall to 1-1-1 for the pre-season.
Making his second begin in exhibition, Eric Comrie stopped 23 of 27 photographs in his second straight loss. Mikko Koskinen made 31 saves between the pipes for the Oilers.
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The Jets killed off an early penalty and solely moments later, Dominic Toninato was denied from in shut. Kristian Vesalainen was first on the rebound, however he misplaced the puck and it went proper to Connor, who fired the puck previous Koskinen for his second objective of the pre-season.
The Oilers got here on robust late within the opening stanza. A dashing McDavid took the go and went in alone, however he simply missed the goal, hitting the facet of the online.
Edmonton quickly went again on the person benefit although and Draisaitl threw the puck in direction of the online from lengthy vary, and it ricocheted off Puljujarvi and in previous Comrie.
The sport was all even after the primary interval the place the photographs had been 13-9 within the Jets’ favour.
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Jansen Harkins had a wonderful likelihood to get the Jets the lead again halfway by way of the center body. The puck squirted over to Harkins simply outdoors the crease with Koskinen approach out of place. However Koskinen received simply sufficient of the puck along with his glove to deflect the shot large.
The Oilers took their first lead with simply over seven minutes left within the interval. Brendan Perlini’s blue line blast was tipped in by Devin Shore.
Simply 1:40 later, McDavid fed the go to Puljujarvi simply outdoors the highest of the circle, and his slap shot beat Comrie clear. The Oilers had a two-goal lead going to the ultimate body. The photographs had been 13-9 for Edmonton within the interval.
The Jets reduce the lead in half within the third. Declan Chisholm made an ideal setup and Scheifele had the tap-in to make it a 3-2 recreation.
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Two minutes after that, Evgeny Svechnikov noticed a pinching Morrissey. He deposited the one-timer and all of the sudden the sport was tied.
However with underneath two minutes left to play, Draisaitl stripped Neal Pionk of the puck within the impartial zone and made an exceptional backhand go to an open Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and he roofed it on Comrie for the game-winning objective.
Nelson Nogier left the sport within the second interval with a lower-body harm.
The Jets get proper again at it on Sunday. Winnipeg performs the fourth of their six-game exhibition schedule towards the Vancouver Canucks beginning at 6:00 p.m.
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