Connor Scores Twice in 27 Seconds as Jets Pull Off the Latest Four-Goal Comeback in NHL History

With 2:39 left in the third period at the Bell Centre, the Winnipeg Jets were down 4–0, Jacob Fowler had a shutout going, and a tenth straight loss was a formality. Winnipeg had been beaten 7–0 in Carolina the night before. Nothing about the evening suggested what happened next.

Tyrel Bauer started it at 17:21. Dylan DeMelo's dump-in took a strange bounce off the left boards, and Bauer put home the first goal of his NHL career to make it 4–1. Forty-two seconds later, Morgan Barron shot on a 2-on-1 and beat Fowler glove side off the crossbar from the right circle — 4–2, and the building went quiet in a hurry.

Then Kyle Connor took the game over. With Stuart Skinner pulled for the extra attacker, Connor scored on a one-timer from the right circle at 19:00 — both of his goals were set up by Mark Scheifele — to cut it to 4–3. Alexandre Carrier tripped Cole Perfetti at 19:25, and two seconds into the power play Connor did it again: another one-timer, this one deflecting in off Noah Dobson's stick with 33 seconds left. Two goals, 27 seconds apart, 4–4.

The four goals took 2:06 — the fastest four goals in Jets franchise history, beating the 2:16 the original Jets managed on Nov. 9, 1984. No team in NHL history had ever won a game after trailing by four this late: per NHL Stats, it is the latest four-goal comeback win the league has seen.

Overtime lasted 3:30. Gabriel Vilardi took the puck from Lane Hutson along the boards, Adam Lowry fed a cutting Dylan Samberg, and Samberg scored blocker side from the right circle — 5–4, comeback complete, losing streak over.

Bauer's night deserves its own line: the rookie's first NHL goal, an assist on Barron's goal, and a third-period fight with Arber Xhekaj — a Gordie Howe hat trick on the night he scored his first.

Montreal did almost everything right for 57 minutes. Owen Beck opened the scoring at 3:05 of the first with his first goal of the season, Josh Anderson made it 2–0 late in the period, and Cole Caufield scored two power-play goals — a rebound at 4:00 of the second and a sharp-angle shot 46 seconds into the third — to build the 4–0 lead. Fowler finished with 42 saves and still took the loss; Winnipeg outshot Montreal 47–22. The Canadiens (9–3–3) saw their five-game win streak end, though their point streak reached eight games (6–0–2).

The Jets (5–8–3) won for the first time since Oct. 13. Skinner made 18 saves and got pulled twice for the extra attacker in the final minutes — both times it worked.

There are losing streaks that end with a relief win nobody remembers. This one ended with a season sliding the other way — four goals in 2:06, and the Jets walking out of Montreal with a piece of NHL history instead of a stolen point. Every goal of the comeback is on the game's Game Center page, the night takes its place on Previously's NHL hub, and Connor's full numbers live on his Stats Hub player page.