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Dallas Stars (38-27-8) at Jets (43-19-10) Sunday, March 18th, 2018 – Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg, MB

Scoring Summary 1 2 3 F 0 2 0 2 Winnipeg Jets 1 2 1 4

Shots By Period 1 2 3 F Dallas Stars 14 8 8 30 Winnipeg Jets 8 7 9 24

Special Teams PP PPS PK SHS PIM Dallas Stars 1/3 9 3/4 2 8 Winnipeg Jets 1/4 5 2/3 0 6

Game Summary – http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20172018/GS021114.HTM Event Summary – http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20172018/ES021114.HTM Post-Game Audio – https://soundcloud.com/user-714921165 Summary PER TIME TEAM GOAL SCORER PRIMARY ASSIST SECONDARY ASSIST STR SCORE 1 19:59 WPG (42) (61) (34) PP 1-0 With the Jets on the power play, Dustin Byfuglien passed to Blake Wheeler at the top of the right circle. Wheeler moved in, but stumbled and from a sitting position fed a pass in front to Patrik Laine in the left circle. Laine one-timed a glove side on Kari Lehtonen and in. 2 1:13 DAL Mattias Janmark (18) (16) Tyler Pitlick (11) EV 1-1 After the Jets were unable to clear, Radek Faksa found Mattias Janmark near the top of the Jets crease and Janmark lifted a shot under the glove of and in. 2 2:17 WPG (2) (15) (7) EV 2-1 Joel Armia sent a pass through the crease that went off the far wall and bounced to Ben Chiarot near the top of the left circle. Chiarot fired a slap shot that beat Lehtonen on the glove side. 2 6:43 WPG Patrik Laine (43) (28) (35) EV 3-1 Paul Stastny took a pass from Dustin Byfuglien at the Stars blueline and sent a pass across the ice, which hit Nikolaj Ehlers and bounced to a streaking Patrik Laine. Laine slid a shot from the right circle through the legs of Lehtonen and in. 2 17:33 DAL (26) John Klingberg (52) Alexander Radulov (38) PP 3-2 Jamie Benn picked up a loose puck in the left circle and snapped a shot that beat Hellebuyck over the right shoulder, just under the bar and in. 3 18:31 WPG Blake Wheeler (19) (16) (31) EV/EN 4-2 With the Stars net empty, Mark Scheifele stole the puck at center, passed the puck to Andrew Copp, who found Blake Wheeler at the Stars blueline. Wheeler skated the puck into the Stars zone and fired it past Jamie Benn, who was blocking the Stars net, and in.

Jets Notes • Winnipeg improves to 2-0-0 on their current six-game homestand and 26-7-4 at Bell MTS Place this season. • The Jets tied a franchise record for most wins in a season tonight with their 43rd win (43-19-10). This is the fifth time in franchise history the team has won 40 games in a season, including the third time in the last four seasons.

• Winnipeg improves to 13-8-2 against the Central Division this season. • With the win, the Jets swept the four-game season series against the Stars. It’s the first time the Jets have swept Dallas in a season series.

• With four goals scored tonight, Winnipeg has scored at least four goals in each of their last eight games against Dallas, outscoring the Stars 39-15. Player Notes

Adam Lowry • Lowry returned tonight after missing the last 19 games with a shoulder injury and 27 of the past 29 games overall. • Lowry finished with an assist, one shot, and three hits in 10:33 TOI. • Lowry went 7-for-12 (58%) at the dot. Paul Stastny • Stastny extended his consecutive games with a point streak with an assist tonight. Stastny has eight points (2G, 6A) during the streak. Blake Wheeler • Wheeler picked up his NHL-leading 61st assist of the season tonight and now has an assist in each of the last three games. • Wheeler scored his 19th goal of the season. The two-point night was the 22nd multi-point game of the season for Wheeler. • With the two points, Wheeler now has registered 80 points, which is a career-high, surpassing the 78 he had in 2015/16. • Wheeler’s assist on the power play gives him 37 power play points this season, which takes over the NHL lead. • Wheeler led the Jets with four hits. Nikolaj Ehlers • Ehlers had an assist tonight and now has registered an assist in two consecutive games. Patrik Laine • Laine extended his point streak to 15 games with two goals tonight and now has (18G, 8A), during the streak. • The two goals tonight give Laine 43 on the season, which is tied with Alex Ovechkin for the NHL lead. • Of the 79 goals Laine has scored in the NHL, 14 have come against Dallas. • It is Laine’s sixth multi-goal game season and 15th multi-point game of the season. Five of the multi-goal games have come during his 15-game point streak. Dustin Byfuglien • Byfuglien took a team-high four shots, played a game-high 26:53, and blocked a team-high four shots. Toby Enstrom • Enstrom returned tonight after missing four games with a lower-body injury. Mark Scheifele • Scheifele returned tonight after missing five games with an upper-body injury, finishing with an assist, one hit, and 18-for-29 (62%) at the faceoff dot in 23:18 TOI. Connor Hellebuyck • Hellebuyck stopped 28-of-30 shots and improves to 25-5-2 at Bell MTS Place and 37-11-9 overall on the season.