Perreault's three-point night lifts Jets past Canucks

WINNIPEG -- Mathieu Perreault had two goals and an assist to help the Winnipeg Jets end a three-game losing streak with a 5-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Bell MTS Place on Monday.
Dmitry Kulikov, Nikolaj Ehlers and Josh Morrissey scored for the Jets (18-8-5), who are 10-0-1 in their past 11 games at home. Connor Hellebuyck made 25 saves for his 16th win.

"Somehow, we've been doing it at home," Perreault said. "I'm not so sure why, but it seems like in this building we feel very comfortable in our game and we've been playing some solid hockey here, so it was just another example of it."
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Brock Boeser scored for Vancouver (14-13-4), which has lost three games in a row. Jacob Markstrom allowed five goals on 24 shots.
"I thought we played well, actually," Canucks forward Thomas Vanek said. "Five-on-5, we were right there, if not better, and that's an offensive team there, especially on the power play. In the second period, we lost the momentum a little bit with those penalty kills against, and before you know it, they scored a couple power-play goals and we were playing from behind, and that's a tough team to chase."
Kulikov gave the Jets a 1-0 lead with his second goal of the season at 1:28 of the first period.
Boeser increased his NHL rookie goal-scoring lead with his 16th at 6:53 to tie the game 1-1.

Perreault put Winnipeg ahead 2-1 at 4:55 of the second period when he scored as a holding penalty against Vancouver forward Sam Gagner expired.
Ehlers extended the Jets lead to 3-1 when he scored on the power play with a one-timer off the rebound of a Tyler Myers shot at 14:09.
"It hasn't been working the way we wanted it to these past couple of games," Ehlers said of the Jets power play. "Our mindset today was to just get pucks to the net and create chances off that, and we did that. We gave ourselves a chance to score on the power play."
Morrissey joined the rush and scored on a redirection at 11:38 of the third period to make it 4-1.
After Markstrom turned over the puck from behind his net to Matt Hendricks in the slot, Perreault redirected Hendricks' shot as it was about to cross the goal line to make it 5-1 with 44 seconds left.
"They had three guys up on the forecheck," Markstrom said. "I don't know how, but it was a poor decision by me and I wasn't good today and I take full responsibility. … That wasn't good. You've got to own it, and it's a new day tomorrow."

Goal of the game

Perreault's goal at 4:55 of the second period.

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Save of the game

Hellebuyck stopping Vanek's slap shot at 6:57 of the third period.

Highlight of the game

Ehlers' power-play goal at 14:09 of the second period.

They said it

"That didn't feel like a 5-1 hockey game, that's for sure. I think 5-on-5 we gave up 17 shots, and we got to find a way to score a couple more goals." -- Canucks coach Travis Green
"You come to the rink hopeful every day and optimistic, but those are the games you're worried about, especially with that schedule, coming back off [three road games against Eastern Conference teams]. And we've got some guys, Blake Wheeler was quite ill today. He plays, he's played with just about everything. But we had some guys with not a lot in the tank. So no part of our game was easy." -- Jets coach Paul Maurice

Need to know

Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin each had an assist on Boeser's goal. Henrik has 11 assists in his past 11 games, and Daniel has six points (one goal, five assists) in his past six. ... Canucks forward Sven Baertschi missed his first game since he broke his jaw in a 4-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Saturday. He is out 4-6 weeks. … Perreault's second goal of the game was the 100th of his NHL career. … Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien missed his first game since sustaining a lower-body injury in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday. He has been ruled out until after Christmas.

What's next

Canucks: Host the Nashville Predators on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; SN, FS-TN, NHL.TV)
Jets: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; TSN3, NBCSCH, NHL.TV)