WINNIPEG, Manitoba --
Dustin Byfuglien fired a low shot past goalie
Jonathan Bernier 2:44 into overtime to give the
Winnipeg Jets a 5-4 victory over the
Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.
Toronto's
Phil Kessel took a pass from
James van Riemsdyk and fired a sharp-angled shot past Jets goalie
Ondrej Pavelec with 1:33 left in the third period to tie the score.
Mark Scheifele,
Zach Bogosian,
Blake Wheeler and
Bryan Little also scored for the Jets, who outshot the Leafs 32-28 through overtime. Little also had an assist and
Andrew Ladd added two.
Dion Phaneuf had a power-play goal for Toronto,
Troy Bodie scored his second of the season and
Tim Gleason had his first. Pavelec stopped 24 shots.
James Reimer
started for the Leafs, but let in four goals on 18 shots and was
replaced by Bernier midway through the second period. Bernier finished
with 13 saves.
The Jets led 2-0 after scoring twice on their first four shots of the game.
Toronto gave up the puck in its own end and Jets forward
Evander Kane
got it and sent a pass to Scheifele in the faceoff circle. Reimer got a
piece of Scheifele's shot, but not enough as the Jets went up 1-0 on
their first shot at 3:10. It was Scheifele's 10th goal of the season.
Winnipeg made good on its first power play of the game, courtesy of a hooking penalty on Leafs defenseman Morgan Reilly.
Pavelec got things started with a pass out to defenseman
Jacob Trouba,
who then sent the puck to Wheeler just outside Toronto's blue line.
Wheeler raced in alone on the Manitoba-born Reimer and put a shot
through his pads at 6:34.
Toronto started dominating the play
after falling behind, but the Jets sent a flurry of shots at Reimer in
the waning seconds of the first period. The Leafs still outshot the home
team 12-11 in the opening 20 minutes.
A five-goal second period included each team scoring twice in a span of 3:01.
The
Leafs used a power play for Phaneuf's fifth goal of the season, a long
one-timer straight at the net through traffic at 6:13 while Jets
defenseman
Keaton Ellerby was in the box for boarding.
Little's 17th goal of the season came just over a minute later as he redirected a shot by Toby Enstrom to make it 3-1.
Bogosian's
shot 37 seconds later beat a partially screened Reimer and sent the
goalie to the bench in favor of Bernier, who entered his 100th career
game with his team down 4-1.
Toronto made it 4-2 on Bodie's goal
61 seconds later at 9:14 and then pulled within one with 3:16 left in
the period when Gleason's shot hit Trouba and went through Pavelec's
pads.
Winnipeg had a 23-20 edge on shots after two periods.
The
Leafs got a power play midway through the third period when Devon
Setoguchi's clearing attempt went over the glass, but the Jets buckled
down and averted a tying goal.
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B. Little (Jets - C): Goals: 1, Assists: 1
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