Jets stay perfect as NHL's only undefeated team, top Blues for 6th straight win

ST. LOUIS -- Kyle Connor scored for the fourth straight game, and the Winnipeg Jets won their sixth in a row to begin the season, 3-2 against the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center on Tuesday.

Cole Perfetti had three assists for the Jets (6-0-0), who have won 14 straight regular-season games dating to last season. Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves to win his fifth start.

“That was a great road win,” Perfetti said. “A good way to start off the (three-game road) trip. There’s times where they made good pushes and we responded well. That was a great second period and we got some timely goals. It was a great effort by our group.”

Brandon Saad scored twice, Robert Thomas had two assists, and Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for the Blues (4-3-0), who ended a four-game homestand (2-2-0).

“We came out and had a good first,” Blues defenseman Ryan Suter said. “The second, they’re such an explosive team, you let off the gas a little bit and they take advantage of it and that’s what happened there in the second."

The Jets scored three times in the second period to overcome a one-goal deficit.

Nino Niederreiter’s tip of a Neal Pionk wrist shot from the right point tied it 1-1 on the power play at 8:12.

“I thought we were really good in the second,” first-year Jets coach Scott Arniel said. “We got out of our zone a lot cleaner going fast. We won a bunch of battles and obviously scored. We got a power-play goal and another goal. And then we got rolling again. We got them back on their heels a bit."

Colin Miller’s one-timer from the right point off the pass from Perfetti made it 2-1 at 13:58, and Connor made it 3-1 at 17:40 with a quick snap shot from the left circle.

“We just kind of stuck with it,” Connor said. “Same plan (as the first period). Obviously frustrating not being able to capitalize on some of those chances with a lot of zone time. Stuck with it. Obviously Miller’s goal was huge for us to kind of get us going. Not getting frustrated was the biggest thing. I think we did a mature job to what we do best.

“’Sammy’ [Dylan Samberg] slid it over and I had a lot of daylight coming down (on his goal). I saw a little opening there and went for it.”

Saad made it 3-2 at 5:15 off a rebound of Jordan Kyrou's shot.

Blues captain Brayden Schenn had a chance to tie it with 43 seconds remaining after a puck bounced near the goal crease but couldn't get a stick on it.

"It just rolled off his shoulder or blocker," Schenn said of Hellebuyck. "I had the open net and went to hit the rolling puck and it hit the top of my stick and didn't get all of it."

Saad put in a rebound of a Thomas wrist shot at 10:11 of the first period to put St. Louis up 1-0, earning his 500th NHL point in his 867th game.

Thomas did leave the game with under 12 minutes remaining in the third after blocking a shot earlier in the period from Pionk with 18:28 remaining.

Blues coach Drew Bannister said Thomas would have x-rays done after the game and described it as a lower-body injury.

NOTES: Connor has 31 points (14 goals, 17 assists) in 24 games against the Blues. … Hellebuyck improved to 16-5-2 in 23 games against St. Louis. … Blues defenseman Philip Broberg’s season-opening six-game point streak (one goal, five assists) ended.