After hot start, Jets open weekend road trip as both Winnipeg and the Buffalo Sabres look to snap losing streaks.
After a meteoric 15-1 start to the 2024-25 National Hockey League season the Winnipeg Jets have been grounded of late winning three of their last 10 games including losses in six of their last eight road games as they skate into KeyBank Center on Thursday night to face off against the Buffalo Sabres who are on a four-game losing streak of their own. The Sabres have been a streaky squad so far this season with three losing skids of three or more games alongside a trio of three-game winning streaks to start the campaign. Buffalo has lost three in a row on their home ice and have only beaten Winnipeg at home once in the last six seasons.
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Game Date: Dec. 5, 2024
Game Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
TV Channel: MSG Sportsnet
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Sabres winger Tage Thompson leads the team with 13 goals this season after his two-goal effort in Tuesday’s loss to Colorado. In his seventh season with Buffalo, Thompson is five goals shy of 150 for his career and is on pace or his third 30-plus goal scoring season in the last four years.
With 15 wins in his first 20 starts, Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck ranks in the top three in the league for wins, goals allowed per game, save percentage and shutouts and has held six consecutive opponents to three goals or less.
Paced by the league’s second-best power play unit, the Jets are fourth in the NHL in scoring netting 3.65 goals per game despite being held without a power play goal in three straight games.
Winnipeg has dominated this series winning eight of the last 12 games overall including five of the last six in Buffalo and each of the last three road meetings.
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