Knights squander early lead, open 2022 with loss to Winnipeg Jets

Winnipeg’s Kyle Connor scored with 2:21 remaining successful overtime, and the Golden Knights mislaid to the Jets 5-4 connected Sunday astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Mattias Janmark buried his 2nd extremity of the crippled with 8.1 seconds remaining to necktie the people aft helium chopped into Winnipeg’s pb astatine 6:23 of the 3rd period.

Paul Stastny and Andrew Copp scored 1:48 isolated aboriginal successful the 3rd play to enactment Winnipeg up 4-2 aft the Knights led 2-0 astatine the extremity of the archetypal period.

Goalie Laurent Brossoit faced his erstwhile squad for the archetypal clip since helium signed with the Knights arsenic a escaped cause and saw his idiosyncratic two-game winning streak snapped.

Michael Amadio opened the scoring successful the archetypal play erstwhile a rebound went close to his instrumentality and helium enactment it past Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck. He besides assisted connected Evgenii Dadonov’s extremity connected a two-on-one that enactment the Knights up 2-0 precocious successful the period.

Winnipeg, which was playing for the archetypal clip since Dec. 19, responded successful the 2nd play with goals 20 seconds apart. Jansen Harkins made a determination astir Chandler Stephenson successful the slot earlier helium fired a changeable past Brossoit, and Kristian Reichel pounced connected a escaped puck successful the close faceoff dot and fired location his archetypal NHL extremity to adjacent the people astatine 2.

Jets defenseman Nate Schmidt and Stastny were honored with a video tribute successful the archetypal play of their archetypal travel backmost to T-Mobile Arena since each was traded successful October 2020 successful abstracted deals.

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