Canucks 3, Jets 2 (SO)
Chris Higgins scored the lone goal in the third round of the shootout as visiting Vancouver sent Winnipeg to its fifth straight defeat (0-2-3).
Alexandre Burrows scored his first two goals of the season to lift the Canucks to only their third win in 15 games (3-11-1). Eddie Lack made 32 saves and denied all three attempts in the bonus format as Vancouver moved within four points of Dallas for the final wild-card slot in the West.
Captain Andrew Ladd and Michael Frolik scored for the Jets, who were unable to protect a pair of one-goal leads and lost their fourth in a row at home (0-2-2). Ondrej Pavelec made 31 saves in falling to 1-3-1 lifetime against Vancouver.
Winnipeg broke a 1-1 deadlock when Olli Jokinen skated down the left side and patiently waited before threading a perfect pass to an onrushing Frolik, who chipped a backhander over Lack at 2:18 of the third period. Burrows notched the equalizer nine minutes later when Jannik Hansen popped up the puck from behind the net and Burrows batted it into the net out of mid-air.
The Jets broke on top at 3:48 of the second period when Ladd finished off a 3-on-2, snapping a shot from the slot that beat Lack high to the blocker side. Burrows tied it nearly 12 minutes later by converting in front to end a 40-game regular-season drought dating to April 15. Evander Kane also shot wide on a penalty shot and Pavelec denied Hansen on a breakaway in the period.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Canucks captain Henrik Sedin, appearing in his 1,000th game, was held off the scoresheet for the 13th time in the last 14 contests. ... Kane's failed penalty shot was the second in as many games for Winnipeg, extending its drought to 0-for-9 dating to Oct. 8, 2010, when the franchise was still located in Atlanta. ... Canucks C Ryan Kesler went to the locker room in the second period after a knee-on-knee hit from Jets C Jim Slater and did not return.