Music: {allcanada} Setoguchi's late goal lifts Jets past Canucks

Friday, January 31, 2014

{allcanada} Setoguchi's late goal lifts Jets past Canucks

Shop feel good fitness equipment from LIVESTRONG and get FREE SHIPPING - a $125 value - Click Here!

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy - Helen Fielding

WINNIPEG - The Vancouver Canucks ran out of comebacks in their first visit to Winnipeg since 1996.

Devin Setoguchi scored his second goal of the game with 2:56 remaining in regulation gave the Winnipeg Jets a 4-3 victory against the Canucks, who were making their first appearance at MTS Centre since the former Atlanta Thrashers relocated here in 2011. They had not played in Winnipeg since the first edition of the Jets moved to Phoenix after the 1995-96 season.

Setoguchi fired a shot from the right side past goaltender Eddie Lack during a delayed penalty for his 10th of the season. He came into the game with one goal in his previous 25 games.

The Canucks had overcome 2-0 and 3-2 deficits, finally tying the game on a goal by defenseman Jason Garrison at 11:50 of the third period. They pressured Winnipeg heavily throughout the third period but have lost three consecutive games.

Coach John Tortorella will return from his six-game, 15-day suspension in time for the Canucks' game Monday against the Detroit Red Wings.

Trying to establish traction in the Western Conference standings and fend off four teams chasing them for a Stanley Cup Playoff spot, the Canucks embarked on a five-game trip that began in Winnipeg. The Canucks did so with two major losses on their blue line in Kevin Bieksa (foot) and Chris Tanev (hand), plus captain Henrik Sedin (ribs), who missed his sixth consecutive game.

The Jets, now 7-2-0 with new coach Paul Maurice, are one of those four teams pursuing Vancouver and pulled within six points. A four-game road trip that begins Sunday against the Montreal Canadiens will take them into the break for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Alexander Edler's fourth goal and Ryan Kesler's team-leading 19th got the Canucks even after they fell behind 2-0. Kesler also had up two assists. Jets defenseman Zach Bogosian scored with his third goal of the season, and Michael Frolik added his 11th.

Lack, who played his first season in North America in 2010-11 as a Winnipeg farmhand with the American Hockey League's Manitoba Moose, started for the Canucks and made 31 saves. Ondrej Pavelec made his 10th start in the Jets' past 11 games, stopping 23 Vancouver shots.

The Jets used two goals in a 1:05 span early in the first period to put Vancouver in a quick hole. Bogosian ripped a left-point shot past Lack at 5:02. Setoguchi backhanded tip at 6:07 made it 2-0.

However, the Canucks' 29th-ranked power play went to work after Winnipeg's Chris Thorburn took an offensive-zone holding penalty. Eight seconds into Thorburn's minor, Edler snuck into a scramble in front of the Winnipeg net and jabbed a loose puck past Pavelec's right pad at 10:27.

Kesler tied the game 2-2 at 4:48 of the second period on the Canucks' ninth shot of the game, stepping into the slot and backhanding a rising shot that fluttered past Pavelec's glove.

But Frolik restored the Jets' one-goal advantage 1:53 later when he one-timed Andrew Ladd's behind-the-net feed into the slot past Lack at 6:41.

Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding