Ivan Barbashev’s pair of late goals propelled the Vegas Golden Knights to a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.
Barbashev scored with a high backhand shot past Connor Hellebuyck at 14:31, then followed up with an empty-net marker with 1:45 remaining.
The Jets have lost five straight (0-4-1), matching a season-high skid from late January (0-4-1).
Jack Eichel had an empty-net goal and Pavel Dorofeyev also scored for the Golden Knights (40-25-8), who were playing the third contest of a four-game road trip (2-0-1).
Logan Thompson stopped 39 shots for Vegas, which is 7-3-1 in its past 11 games.
Sean Monahan scored for the Jets (44-23-6) in front of the team’s seventh sellout of the season and third consecutive full house of 15,225 fans at Canada Life Centre.
Hellebuyck made 23 saves in Winnipeg’s second game of a five-game homestand.
Vegas led 1-0 after the first and it was tied 1-1 heading into the third.
A playoff-like intensity kicked in early when Jets towering defenceman Logan Stanley traded punches with mismatched Vegas forward Keegan Kolesar.
A couple minutes later, Winnipeg captain Adam Lowry put a big check on centre William Karlsson.
Golden Knights forward Chandler Stephenson then tripped Nino Niederreiter, which sparked all skaters to pair up just 6:44 into the first frame.
Winnipeg went on the power play, with Vegas ahead 7-2 on shots on goal. The Jets directed three shots at Thompson, including a one-timer by Mark Scheifele the goalie denied with a pad.
Dorofeyev got the game’s first goal when he fired the puck from inside the circle over Hellebuyck’s glove at 15:56.
Vegas went on the power play 41 seconds later but couldn’t stretch its lead.
Monahan recorded his 23rd goal of the season when he tipped in a Nikolaj Ehlers’ shot at 3:31 of the second.
The Jets had three power plays in the middle frame but couldn’t capitalize.
Winnipeg also had the man advantage seven minutes into the third period and didn’t get a shot on Thompson.
Vegas defenceman Nicolas Hague was then dinged for an illegal check to the head of Jets forward Vladislav Namestnikov.
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Scheifele responded by fighting Hague and he got an instigator penalty, five minutes for fighting and a 10-minute game misconduct with 8:37 remaining. Hague only received an additional five for fighting.
Barbashev rushed the net and threw a high backhand shot that went past Hellebuyck at 14:31, then followed up with an unassisted empty-net marker at 18:15 to give him 18 goals on the season.
Eichel put the puck into an empty net with 34 seconds left for his 25th.
The Jets finished the game going 0-for-5 on the power play and are now 1-for-21 In their past seven outings. Vegas was 0-for-1.
NOTES
Winnipeg is 4-6-1 in its past 11 games. … The Golden Knights have defeated the Jets in their past six matches. … Dorofeyev has three goals in his past four games for Vegas. … Namestnikov played his 700th career NHL game.
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Jets: Host the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
Golden Knights: Visit the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.