Comrie Makes 28 Saves, Jets Down Penguins 5-2 - Beritaja

WINNIPEG – Rookie guardant Brad Lambert scored his first NHL extremity and backup goalie Eric Comrie made 28 saves for the red-hot Winnipeg Jets successful a 5-2 triumph complete the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins connected Saturday.

Kyle Connor scored twice, including an empty-net goal, and Gabriel Valardi and Vladislav Namestnikov besides scored for Winnipeg (9-3-0).

Sidney Crosby and Blake Lizotte countered and Arturs Silovs made 29 saves successful a losing origin for Pittsburgh (8-3-2).

Vilardi scored 15 seconds aft opening puck driblet while fans were still successful the Canada Life Centre concourses buying nutrient and drink. He corralled a Josh Morrissey rebound and banked the puck disconnected Silovs into the net.

Lambert struck astatine 2:43 erstwhile he was parked to Silovs’ correct and chap freshman Parker Ford carried the puck down the Penguins nett and attempted a wrap around. The puck squirted done the crease for Lambert to convert.

The Jets burst retired of the gross successful the 2nd play too. Namestnikov and Jonathan Toews rushed into the Penguins’ area and, aft Toews hesitated pinch the puck for a divided second, the Russian winger deflected a walk down Silovs astatine 1:17 for Namestnikov’s sixth of the season.

Connor scored connected a punishment changeable astatine 12:13 of the second. Silovs misplayed the puck successful the Penguins’ area during a Pittsburgh powerfulness play and threw his instrumentality erstwhile Connor lunged for the puck successful beforehand of an quiet net.

Connor’s backhand hit Silovs to the mitt broadside for what was technically a short-handed extremity for his seventh of the season.

Crosby scored Pittsburgh’s first extremity of the crippled pinch conscionable 12 seconds remaining successful the second, erstwhile the skipper deflected Erik Karlsson’s constituent changeable down Comrie.

The Penguins pulled wrong 2 goals conscionable aft the halfway constituent of the third. Lizotte collapsed Comrie’s crease for his 2nd extremity of the season.

Takeaways:

Jets: Winnipeg’s apical statement of Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Gabriel Vilardi continued their torrid streak to commencement the season. Vilardi netted his 5th extremity of the season, Connor scored his seventh and eighth goals while Scheifele recorded his 10th and 11th assists.

Penguins: The 2 Manitobans connected Pittsburgh’s roster — Owen Pickering and Connor Dewar — were connected the crystal for Winnipeg’s first 3 goals.

Key moment

The Jets group the reside successful a lucky heavyweight conflict erstwhile Vilardi put the location broadside successful beforehand conscionable 15 seconds into the game, and aft facing disconnected against the Crosby line. It’s the quickest the Jets person scored to commencement a crippled this season.

Key stat

The Penguins kept 1 of the NHL’s apical powerfulness plays disconnected the scoresheet successful sidesplitting each 3 of their penalties. Coming into the contest, the Jets had scored 27.8 per cent of the clip pinch the man advantage.

Up next

Jets: Visit the Los Angeles Kings connected Tuesday.

Penguins: Visit the Toronto Maple Leafs connected Monday.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Nov. 1, 2025.

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