WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) 鈥� Cole Perfetti scored twice and Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves to help the Winnipeg Jets deliver a 5-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday that extended their winning streak to a franchise-tying seven games and kept the team alone atop the NHL standings.
Brenden Dillon, Josh Morrissey and Gabriel Vilardi also scored for the Jets, who ran up their franchise-record point streak to 13 games. Adam Lowry contributed a pair of helpers.
鈥淚t felt really good,鈥� said Perfetti, who also registered an assist and is up to 14 goals and 15 helpers in 40 games. 鈥淚t鈥檚 always fun to score and it felt good to score twice tonight.鈥�
Hellebuyck recorded his second shutout of the season and 34th of his career. He is 11-0-2 in his past 13 games, the longest unbeaten streak for a goaltender in franchise history.
Winnipeg, which began a four-game homestand, leads the league with 58 points. Its seven-game winning streak ties the franchise record set in March/April 2017.
Daniil Tarasov stopped 18 shots for Columbus.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 a team that鈥檚 going for the (Stanley) Cup, and that鈥檚 a team that we鈥檙e striving to be like,鈥� Blue Jackets forward Justin Danforth said. 鈥淭hey don鈥檛 make many mistakes on the ice.
鈥淭hey clog the middle of the ice, they backcheck, forecheck our (defense), they finish hits, block shots. That鈥檚 probably one of the better teams we鈥檝e played all year.鈥�
Jets leading scorer Mark Scheifele left the game with 13:27 remaining in the third period after a point shot by Morrissey was deflected and hit him on the right side of the head in front of the net. He went off the ice to the dressing room and didn鈥檛 return until joining his teammates on the ice for the post-game celebration.
Coach Rick Bowness said Scheifele had a few stitches in his ear.
Winnipeg led 1-0 after the first period and 3-0 following the second.
Dillon tied his 2013-14 career high for goals with his sixth of the season at 3:12 of the opening period.
鈥淲e have shown more than enough times that we can score the goals, but our commitment to defense over the last stretch of whatever it is, this has been really impressive and it鈥檚 been nice that we are getting the results because of it,鈥� Dillon said.
Scheifele鈥檚 assist was the 400th of his career and extended his point streak to four games with two goals and three helpers.
Perfetti extended his goal-scoring streak to three consecutive games at 10:50 of the second period.
Morrissey鈥檚 slap shot three minutes later made it 3-0.
鈥淲e did (play a good first period), but we had a six-, seven-minute block in the second that we tried to complicate things and they scored two so at that point it鈥檚 3-0 for them,鈥� said Columbus coach Pascal Vincent.
Perfetti scored his second of the game at 3:34 of the third and Vilardi made it 5-0 on the power play at 9:29.
UP NEXT
Blue Jackets: Kick off a three-game homestand against Seattle on Saturday night.
Jets: Host Chicago on Thursday night.
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