DENVER (AP) — Neal Pionk scored 17 seconds into overtime ... Key moment With the score tied late in the third period, Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele got behind Colorado defenders and had a close-in chance that Blackwood saved. Scheifele tried to tap in ...

DENVER (AP) — Neal Pionk scored 17 seconds into overtime ... With the score tied late in the third period, Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele got behind Colorado defenders and had a close-in chance ...

Mark Scheifele capped a two-goal effort with the eventual game-winner and Wakefield, R.I., native Parker Ford scored in his NHL debut as the visiting Winnipeg Jets beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Thursday night.

The B’s erased a two-goal deficit early in the third period, only to give up two goals to the Western Conference-Winnipeg Jets in 42 seconds and three in the first 5:56 of the third. The Jets then cruised to a 6-2 victory over the B’s.

Mark Scheifele scored twice while four other Jets added a tally each, include Parker Ford and his first goal in his NHL debut. The Jets and their league-leading power play scored the first of two on the man-advantage in the first.

First place in the overall NHL standings will be on the line when the Winnipeg Jets roll into Washington, D.C, this weekend. The Jets beat the Bruins in Boston, 6-2, on Thursday, and will carry a five-game win streak into a Saturday tilt with the Capitals.

The Boston Bruins returned home from their road tilt with the Buffalo Sabres to take on the Winnipeg Jets. The Jets won the first meeting in a beatdown.

Mark Scheifele capped a two-goal effort with the eventual game-winner and Wakefield, R.I., native Parker Ford scored in his NHL debut as the visiting Winnipeg Jets beat the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Thursday night.

From nearby Rhode Island, Parker Ford netted his first NHL goal in his debut while Mark Scheifele scored twice to tie Ilya Kovalchuk for most goals in franchise history.

BOSTON -- Parker Ford scored in his NHL debut for the Winnipeg Jets, who pulled away with four straight goals in the third period for a 6-2 win against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden on Thursday. Ford, an undrafted rookie, grew up rooting for the Bruins as a kid from Wakefield, Rhode Island. He had several family members and friends in attendance.

With the Bruins trailing by a goal early in the third period, they had an offensive zone faceoff in the Jets end despite being short-handed. Pavel Zacha won the draw cleanly to Elias Lindholm who snapped it by Hellebuyck to tie the game, 11 seconds into the third.

The Bruins tied the game, oh so briefly, on Elias Lindholm's shorthanded goal 11 seconds into the third period before the Jets responded three times in five-plus minutes.