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Jets Rally Past Panthers After Lightning Beat Winnipeg 4-1

Goaltending form plus key absences are defining these teams' playoff push heading into the Olympic break.

Overview

  • Winnipeg topped Florida 2-1 on Jan. 31, erasing a third-period deficit with Cole Perfetti’s equalizer and Mark Scheifele’s go-ahead goal with 4:14 left.
  • Eric Comrie made 27 saves for the Jets and has won three straight starts, posting a .960 save percentage and 1.00 goals-against average over that span.
  • The Panthers dropped their third straight game and were short-handed, missing multiple day-to-day players, after taking a 1-0 lead into the third period for the first time this season without earning a point.
  • Two days earlier, Tampa Bay beat Winnipeg 4-1 behind Darren Raddysh’s three-point night, Nikita Kucherov’s 27th goal into an empty net, and Andrei Vasilevskiy’s steady play.
  • The Lightning are 16-1-1 over their past 18 games with Vasilevskiy 13-0-1 in his last 14, while the Jets remain below .500 despite Connor Hellebuyck’s 33 saves in the Tampa loss.