Dustin Byfuglien broke a tie with 1:28 remaining in the Winnipeg Jets’ 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night.
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Little said he thought Hartley made the challenge to let his players catch their breath.
No time to think about this one.
Little was more than please with Byfuglien’s effort to create the go-ahead goal.
“He’s a guy that’s fun to watch when he’s playing his game”.
“Maybe in the playoffs, when they make it to the playoffs this year, we’ll be doing it again, but bigger and better and that will bring on more staff and more people to the area”, Van Seggelen said.
He didn’t play up his own heroics, as per usual in his post-game interviews.
Calgary scored 3:38 into the first period when Sam Bennett’s wrap-around bounced off Pavelec to Backlund in front of the net and he flipped the puck in for his first goal of the season. The penalty carried over into the third and the Jets got three shots on goal. It was the only goal of the period with the shots 11-8 in favour of the Flames.
Pavelec said he had no choice but to stay sharp.
They will start the final frame on the power play after Calgary’s Josh Jooris cut Chris Thorburn with a high stick and was given a four minute double minor. If it was the first few minutes of the game you have time to regroup. “I’m really happy with our game”.
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The response of the full house at MTS Centre almost tore the roof off Winnipeg’s downtown arena as the Jets not only won a hard-fought battle, but also came back from a 1-0 deficit after the first period to improve to 4-1-0 on the season. It has been a much slower start for the Flames, who squandered a lead in Tuesday’s 4-3 loss to St. Louis. After the first game against a team from the Western Conference, players and head coach Paul Maurice talked about the first win of 2015-2016 at home.
