One of the Winnipeg Jets' final ties to Atlanta finally fell on Friday night.
Bryan Little had a hat trick in a 6-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche, the first one for the franchise since Eric Boulton scored a trio of goals for the Atlanta Thrashers on Dec. 18, 2010 — a span of 287 games.
"Every time someone gets two goals, it's kind of, 'who's going to be the one that finally does it?' " said Little, who had his only other hat trick in the NHL on Dec. 26, 2008. "We've had a ton of two-goal games. You knew it was a matter of time. I didn't know if it would take this long."
Fans at MTS Centre threw dozens of hats on the ice after Little scored his second and third goals 32 seconds apart early in the third period. He also had an assist.
"Honestly, two of the three goals I didn't celebrate because I didn't know they were in," Little said. "The first one (in the third period), it looked like (Semyon Varlamov's) glove crossed the line but I wasn't sure. The second one, you know I thought it hit the cross bar and I didn't even know until after."
Chris Thorburn scored his first goal of the season, captain Andrew Ladd had a goal and an assist and Dustin Byfuglien also scored for Winnipeg (14-9-4). Byfuglien was back playing defence because of injuries.
Jarome Iginla scored twice for Colorado (9-12-6) , with Gabriel Landeskog assisting on both of them.
Rookie Michael Hutchinson made 20 saves for Winnipeg, which has only had an overtime loss to Boston in its last five games. Varlamov stopped 25-of-30 shots for Colorado before he was replaced by Reto Berra after Little's third goal at 1:17 of the third period. Berra stopped six of the seven shots he faced.
"That was a big game for us and for them," said Colorado centre Matt Duchene. "We're behind them (in the standings) and we should be more desperate than they are.
"But they came out and dominated us from start to finish. It was a disappointing effort by us. It's not what we need at this time of year, that's for sure."
Thorburn scored off a rebound from defenceman Paul Postma's point shot, sending the puck over Varlamov at 4:31 of the first period. Winnipeg has now scored first in its past eight games, and in 18 of its 27 games. Its record in those games is 11-4-3.
"Chris scored tonight?" Wheeler joked with a laugh. "Thor scored? That was awesome."
Little had a chance for a fourth goal into an empty net midway through the period after penalties made the Jets shorthanded, but Avs centre Ryan O'Reilly was back and blocked the shot.
"That was a six on three, so, I mean, we were just running around waving our sticks like idiots for a while," Little said with a smile. "Honestly, I was exhausted. I didn't even want to shoot at the net, I just wanted to get off the ice. But if that would have went in, that would have been nice, too. I had nothing left. Couldn't even shoot the puck hard."
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