The Winnipeg Jets trailed the Montreal Canadiens 4-0 with 2:39 left on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre, and won 5-4 in overtime. Four goals in 2:06 tied the game, Dylan Samberg finished it at 3:30 of overtime, and a nine-game winless skid ended in the most unlikely way available. iimiTV told the full story of the finish in Jets Stun Canadiens In Record Comeback Win.
Wednesday brought the reactions, the settled record context and the fallout from both dressing rooms, and they were as stark as the finish itself. Montreal’s players called it inexcusable. Winnipeg’s called it a playoff win. Both were describing the same 126 seconds.
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The Winnipeg Jets Record, Written Into The Book
By Wednesday, the league record was official. The Jets began their comeback with 2:39 remaining in regulation, later than any four-goal comeback win in NHL history. The previous mark belonged to the Los Angeles Kings, who started their rally at 52:46 against the Dallas Stars on November 10, 2007. SportsCenter put the wider number on it: teams trailing by four goals in the final three minutes of an NHL game were 0-9,652-0 entering Tuesday night. The Jets are the first team ever to cash that ticket.
The franchise mark fell too. The four goals in 2:06 were the fastest four goals in Jets history, beating the 2:16 the original Jets scored against Vancouver on November 9, 1984. And buried inside Montreal’s loss was a milestone of its own: Cole Caufield’s two power-play goals mean he has now scored against every team in the NHL.
Bauer, Barron And A Room That Refused To Lose
The rally started with a rookie. Tyrel Bauer’s goal at 17:21 of the third period was the first of his NHL career, and with his fight against Arber Xhekaj and an assist, he finished the night with a Gordie Howe hat trick. “That’s a long, hard stretch, but this group believed in each other,” Bauer said. “We had each other’s backs in that room. I mean, I blacked out for the rest of it, but that was fun. We needed that as a group. We’re going to run with that and we’re not looking back.”
“I don’t know that I’ve wanted to win a hockey game more in my life. It’s no secret what we just went through, and in a game where we thought we were playing well and we still couldn’t find it, we knew something had to give, and it finally did.”
Head coach Scott Arniel pointed at the run of play that had been building all night: Winnipeg directed 86 shot attempts at Montreal’s net and outshot the Canadiens 47-22. “We needed something to happen, some kind of crazy thing to happen, and four goals in 2:06, that doesn’t happen very often, if ever,” Arniel said. “It was amazing. That felt like a playoff win in there. I’m so happy for them and they’re so happy for each other.” Kyle Connor, who scored twice in the final minute with Stuart Skinner pulled, said the group “came into today with such a good attitude and tried to live in the present and just manufacture some kind of positivity and jump even if it wasn’t there.”
Montreal’s Dressing Room Had No Defence For It
The Canadiens did not hide behind the point they kept. “The guys thought the game was over, I think,” Caufield said. “Listen, a four-goal lead, there’s no excuse for this. Yeah, it was terrible.” Head coach Martin St. Louis went further, saying the collapse matched the run of play: “We were winning, but we weren’t outplaying them. If you look at the game as a whole, forget the score, Winnipeg was the better team tonight. How the whole thing happened, that’s hard to explain. I’ve never been part of anything like that.”
The hardest luck belonged to Jacob Fowler. The rookie stopped the first 37 shots he faced and came within 2:39 of his second shutout in three games, finishing with 42 saves in the loss. Arniel, from the winning bench, paid him the compliment of the night: “That young Fowler kid, wow. That’s twice now I’ve seen him. I don’t want to see him anymore.” Montreal’s five-game winning streak is over, though the point stretched the Canadiens’ point streak to eight games (6-0-2), and they have now played six straight games without captain Nick Suzuki.
What The Morning After Means For Both Clubs
Winnipeg heads home at 5-8-3 with the skid over and a new question in front of it: was Tuesday a turning point or a mirage? The Jets host the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday at Canada Life Centre, and a Vancouver team that just gave up five goals at home is the first test of whether the spark Winnipeg kept talking about actually lit something. Montreal, 9-3-3 and still near the top of the Atlantic Division, hosts the Utah Mammoth on Thursday with a simpler assignment: close out a game.
Finishes like this one tend to follow teams around. For the Jets, it is now the reference point for what this group can do when a game looks gone. For the Canadiens, it is the tape every opponent will study for how to come back on them. The next chapters start Thursday, in two different buildings, one night after the wildest finish of the season.
