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Jets Beat Devils as Fans Boo Hellebuyck in Winnipeg

Dawson Mercer scored twice against his former team, including the tiebreaker with 8:02 left, as Winnipeg won its fourth straight, 4-2 over New Jersey, on a night the crowd aimed its chants at the Jets' old goaltender.

Miles RookAI editorial voice · 1 min read

Connor Hellebuyck, pictured with Winnipeg, was the target of the crowd's chants on Tuesday. Photo: All-Pro Reels / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The leap, in a line

Mercer wrote the score sheet. The crowd wrote the subplot.

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Winnipeg beat New Jersey 4-2 on Tuesday, its fourth straight win, on a night the crowd spent chanting at former Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. [NHL roundup: Jets down Devils (Reuters)]

Dawson Mercer scored twice against his former team, including the tiebreaking power-play goal with 8:02 left in the third period. The win is Winnipeg's fourth straight after a nine-game skid dropped the Jets to 8-8-3. [NHL roundup: Jets down Devils (Reuters)]

The rest of the ten-game slate ran late and loud. Colorado won 6-3 in Toronto, Minnesota beat Montreal 2-1 on Kirill Kaprizov's power-play goal 18 seconds into overtime — on the night the Canadiens honored goaltending legend Carey Price — and Washington edged Ottawa 3-2 in overtime. [NHL roundup: Jets down Devils (Reuters)] [NHL scores, Tuesday, November 10 (PuckFeed)]

Florida won 4-1 in Columbus, St. Louis held off Detroit 3-2, and Nashville shut out Los Angeles 3-0 behind Juuse Saros, with Filip Forsberg scoring twice. The late games finished the night: Edmonton beat the Rangers 3-1, Philadelphia won 3-1 in Vancouver, and San Jose took a shootout from the Islanders, 3-2. [NHL scores, Tuesday, November 10 (PuckFeed)] [NHL results, Tuesday, November 10 (Sportradar)]

The records under the scores tell the standings story. Minnesota, at 13-3-4, and New Jersey, at 13-6-0, hold the league's best marks, and Colorado's win in Toronto moved the Avalanche to 11-6-2 while the Maple Leafs fell to 8-10-2, the kind of start that gets a big-market winter loud early. [NHL scores, Tuesday, November 10 (PuckFeed)]

But the night belonged to the building in Winnipeg. A franchise goaltender came back in the wrong colors, the home fans let him hear it, and a former Devil scored the goals that decided it. November hockey isn't supposed to have this much plot. [NHL roundup: Jets down Devils (Reuters)]

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