Morrissey starts the comeback as Jets rally to beat Blues

WINNIPEG -Josh Morrissey might have had the quote of the night, but there weren't any microphones around.
He just shouted it to anyone that could hear him over the goal horn and the massive ovation at Canada Life Centre.
"Let's go!"
Well, there might have been another word in the middle there. Maybe.
"I just kind of blacked out," he laughed.
When he was told that his teammate - Mark Scheifele - described the NHL All-Star's performance as "fricken' fantastic," Morrissey could only smile, adding "Yeah, that's what I was saying in the celebration too."
The whole play, Morrissey's goal, his celebration, his yelling to the crowd, his waving of his arms, might go down as one of the biggest moments of the season.
It cut a St. Louis Blues lead to 2-1, and paved the way to a four-goal third period comeback as the Jets snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win.

Morrissey finished with two goals in the game - giving him 10 on the season - and Scheifele had two of his own to reach 31 goals, the third time in his career he's hit the 30-goal mark.
The win improves the Jets record to 32-19-1 heading into the 11-day All-Star break.
"I thought we were good as a whole team, but certainly guys that kind of get counted on to produce, were feeling it and feeling the pressure a little bit," said Morrissey. "Whether guys showed up win the scoresheet or not, I thought we played a heck of a game. The compete was there, the effort was there that is our identity and everything else kind of comes from that."
This wasn't a victory that came easily. Despite Winnipeg's strong play throughout the night, they weren't getting the rewards through 40 minutes.

They had 30 shots on goal and six power play chances in the opening two periods, but Jordan Binnington stopped everything that came his way. There was a 2-on-1 with a Saku Maenalanen one-timer, a Pierre-Luc Dubois partial breakaway, and Sam Gagner even hit a post.
But nothing was going in. Just as it hadn't against Philadelphia, and just like it hadn't against Buffalo until the final five minutes when the Jets potted two before ultimately falling 3-2.
"Five-on-five, we were happy with what we were doing, we had some great looks, it was just a matter of staying with it," said Jets head coach Rick Bowness. "That team tonight, our guys - I told them after the game - they weren't going to be denied tonight."
Jake Neighbours scored the game's opening goal with 5:24 left in the second. His power play goal came off a stretch pass from Torey Krug, and the 20-year-old squeaked a backhand past Connor Hellebuyck to make it 1-0. Binnington picked up the secondary assist on the play.
Neighbours factored in on the second goal of the contest as well, which came 2:02 into the third. His ability to win a board battle to get the puck out of the St. Louis end allowed Josh Leivo to find Nikita Alexandrov for a breakaway. His shot beat Hellebuyck, and early in the third it was 2-0 for the visitors.
"You can feel the tension in the rink, obviously fans are getting on us and at times rightfully so, for sure," said Morrissey, who played a game high 27:27.

But that tension was about to break.
Morrissey got the fans on their feet just 40- seconds later, as he kept on a 2-on-1 rush and snapped home his ninth of the season to cut the St. Louis lead in half. Then came the celebration that showed just how much weight came off his shoulders in the moment - as well as the shoulders of his teammates.
"To score 40 seconds after they got that second goal just turned the whole game around in our favour," said Bowness. "That was a hell of a shot and a great rush."
It was Winnipeg's first goal in 103:25, dating back to the final minute of the 3-2 loss to the Sabres in the first game of the home stand.
"It was just a great atmosphere," said Bowness. "The atmosphere on the bench, the attitudes were good. They knew we were playing well."
With 10:28 to go, Justin Faulk's clearing attempt from near the front of the Blues net hit Kyle Connor, who quickly found Nikolaj Ehlers in the right circle. With a one-touch pass, Ehlers hit Scheifele in the slot and he buried his 30th of the season, tying the game at two. The assist was also the 200th of Connor's career.
"I think we needed that," Scheifele said of the win, and the momentum swing that came with it. "It wasn't like every shift we were dominating in the O zone, but we got on the forecheck, got on the forecheck, got on the forecheck. They were just happy to chip it in and go change. That was our hockey."

Before the fans could stop cheering, Morrissey scored his second of the game - just 21 seconds after Scheifele's goal - as his centering play from the left wing went off Brayden Schenn and deflected past Binnington to give the Jets their first lead of the game at 3-2.
"Even when we got the lead, we kept doing the same thing," said Scheifele. "We got it in deep, we got O-zone time, we made plays, we made passes. And that was huge."
The Jets didn't stop. They kept the pressure up in the final 10 minutes, and even when the Blues pulled Binnington for an extra attacker, they only got one shot on goal in the sequence before Scheifele put the game away with an empty netter with 24 seconds left.
"You go from being down 2-0 to winning that game in a pretty fun fashion. It changes everything," Scheifele said. "A little bit of a sigh of relief and you get to enjoy the break a little bit more."
Now the team that's played the most games in the NHL since December 2, 2022 gets a much-needed break.
But one can only assume the first video session after they get back will be the third period against St. Louis.
"The games are only going to ramp up again," said Scheifele. "We're going to have to have a few good practices and come back to work and use that third period template as this is the way that we play, that this is every night."