via NHL.com
John Tavares scored in the third period to help the Toronto Maple Leafs win for the first time in three games, 4-2 against the Winnipeg Jets at Bell MTS Centre in Winnipeg on Wednesday.
Tavares gave the Maple Leafs a 4-2 lead at 8:28 of the third period and ended his five-game goal drought when he put in a rebound of a shot by Mitchell Marner at the top of the goal crease. It came 2:00 after the Jets scored twice in 1:31 to make it 3-2.
Kasperi Kapanen, Tyler Ennis and Nazem Kadri scored, and Frederik Andersen made 38 saves for the Maple Leafs (7-3-0), who are 5-0-0 on the road.
Nikolaj Ehlers and Mark Scheifele scored, and Connor Hellebuyck made 35 save for the Jets (6-3-1), who had won three in a row and were 14-0-1 in their past 15 regular-season home games. Winnipeg had not lost a game at home in regulation since losing 6-5 to the Nashville Predators on Feb. 27.
The Jets made it 3-1 at 4:57 of the third period when Ehlers scored his first goal of the season, ending a streak of 26 games without a goal, including 15 in the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Scheifele scored on the power play to make it 3-2 at 6:28 when he took a Blake Wheeler pass from behind the net and shot from the slot.
The Maple Leafs went up 1-0 at 14:38 of the first period when Kapanen shot past Hellebuyck’s blocker from the slot.
Ennis scored his first goal of the season to make it 2-0 at 2:25 of the second period when he deflected a shot from Josh Leivo at the top of the goal crease.
Kadri scored his first goal the season when he put a wrist shot past Hellebuyck’s glove from the right face-off dot at 11:43 to make it 3-0.
🎥 Nikolaj Ehlers on his goal, how tonight’s game played out, and more postgame. #TORvsWPG pic.twitter.com/abuFg4VHy6
— Winnipeg Jets (@NHLJets) October 25, 2018
Leafs Nation is bringing the noise in Winnipeg tonight.
We’re under way in the third. #LeafsForever pic.twitter.com/xzhwqbNTzo
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) October 25, 2018
The @MapleLeafs won each of its first five road games of a season for the third time in franchise history (also 7-0-0 in 1940-41 and 5-0-0 in 1993-94). Buffalo established the longest such run in NHL history during the 2006-07 season (10-0-0). #NHLStats pic.twitter.com/VizN8ax5jG
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) October 25, 2018
Solid showing on the road propels Leafs past Jets.
Take a look at tonight’s @OntarioLottery Game Winning Numbers.#LeafsForever #That649Feeling pic.twitter.com/Xiwl6ic8vq
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) October 25, 2018