Jets rally from 4-0 down late in third period to beat Canadiens 5-4 in overtime

The Winnipeg Jets scored four goals late in the third period to erase a 4-0 deficit and beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-4 in overtime at the Bell Centre on Tuesday night, ending a nine-game losing streak. Dylan Samberg won it with a wrist shot past Canadiens goalie Jacob Fowler at 3:30 of overtime, after Winnipeg tied the game with 33 seconds left in regulation. Kyle Connor scored twice. Winnipeg had been less than three minutes from a 10th straight loss in its fifth game in eight nights. Fowler, a 21-year-old rookie and the NHL's rookie of the month for October, made 19 saves in the second period alone. Jets defenseman Tyrel Bauer, playing his 10th NHL game, fought Montreal's Arber Xhekaj with 9:20 left in regulation. The Canadiens said afterward that there were no excuses for the collapse.

The Guardian, representing the left, leads with Winnipeg's perspective: a team with its coach under pressure and a season rocked by goalie Connor Hellebuyck's trade request. It calls the rally the latest four-goal comeback in NHL history and adds detail on Fowler's saves, the Bauer-Xhekaj fight and a player quote in its headline. It times the four goals at 2 minutes 6 seconds. Fox News, on the right, frames the game as Montreal making the wrong kind of history, with a headline calling it a choke job. Its opening compares it with the Patriots' Super Bowl LI comeback and the 2004 Red Sox, and it also mentions Hellebuyck's Olympic performance. Both agree on the historic scale of the lead lost. They differ in emphasis: the left stresses Winnipeg's resilience and game events, while the right stresses Montreal's failure. ESPN's coverage, which is mostly aligned with the others, centers on the Canadiens' own accountability and puts the collapse at 160 seconds.