Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the third consecutive game and had two assists, Kyle Connor added his 33rd goal of the season, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the New Jersey Devils

Dawson Mercer scored for the Devils with a slap shot in the opening minute of the third to make it 3-1, but it wasn’t enough to prevent a third consecutive loss.

BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils take on the Winnipeg Jets in a non-conference matchup. New Jersey is 15-10-4 at home and 33-24-6 overall. The Devils are ninth in NHL play serving 9.0 penalty minutes per game.

The Winnipeg Jets will travel to the Garden State to face the New Jersey Devils. This could be a Stanley Cup preview as we share our NHL odds series and make a Jets-Devils prediction and pick. The Devils lead the head-to-head series 35-33.

Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor, and Gabriel Vilardi combined for eight points in the victory over the Flyers, a win that snapped a three-game winless skid foor the Jets. The other good news for the Jets is that the power play has now scored four times in five opportunities on the road trip.

The Winnipeg Jets had a better trade-deadline day than their general manager. Hours after Kevin Cheveldayoff pulled the trigger on pair of low-impact trades, his team pulled the trigger six times in a 6-1 rout of the Devils in New Jersey on Friday.