Despite holding out hope it can avoid a full shutdown, Hudson’s Bay says it is planning an “immediate” liquidation that would begin next week and wrap up in June.

In a late Friday announcement, Canada’s oldest company said it couldn’t secure the necessary financing to keep at least some of its empire alive.

A closure of the entire business, which is planned pending a court appearance set for Monday, would mean job losses for 9,364 employees the company has in Canada across its Hudson’s Bay stores, as well as three Saks Fifth Avenue stores and 13 Saks Off 5th locations it owns through a licensing agreement.

Though the situation looks bleak, the company said it remains optimistic it can drum up capital and find a solution with key stakeholders, particularly its landlord partners, to avoid a full shutdown.

“Our team has worked incredibly hard to identify a viable path forward, and our resolve is strengthened by the overwhelming support from customers and associates who have shared heartfelt stories about Hudson’s Bay and what our stores have meant to them, their families, and their communities across the generations,” said Hudson’s Bay president and CEO Liz Rodbell in a statement on Friday night.

“These powerful experiences remind us why we must continue to pursue every possible opportunity to secure the necessary support from key landlords and other stakeholders to save The Bay.”

The department store chain dates back to 1670 and now spans 80 stores.

Hudson’s Bay said it plans to sell off its assets over the coming months, pending court approval, which could include an auction process if it receives multiple qualified bids.

The company said a store-by-store liquidation is necessary because it has only secured “limited” debtor-in-possession financing — a form of capital companies can seek for restructuring purposes after they make creditor protection filings.

It said that “without an immediate liquidation across retail stores, it is not expected” that Hudson’s Bay would be able to repay its obligations under the financing it did secure.

Given the company’s “limited liquidity,” it wants to conclude the liquidation process by June 15, Jennifer Bewley, the chief financial officer for Hudson’s Bay’s parent company, said in an affidavit filed in court Friday.

The company’s plea for help comes roughly a week after it laid bare its financial struggles in a creditor protection application it made with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

In its application, Hudson’s Bay said it was facing financial struggles because of subdued consumer spending, trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada, and post-pandemic drops in downtown store traffic.

The filings show the company owes more than $950 million to 26 pages’ worth of listed creditors: landlords, suppliers and other partners, including fashion heavyweights Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Columbia Sportswear, Diesel and Estee Lauder.

Bewley said in a March 7 court filing that the business had to defer certain payments to such companies for many months because it was having so much trouble making payments to landlords, service providers and vendors.

The situation was so severe that she said a landlord “unlawfully locked” Hudson’s Bay out of a store located in Sydney, N.S. and a team of bailiffs attempted to seize merchandise from another location it runs in Sherway Gardens, a suburban Toronto mall.

The March 7 filing was not meant to be the precursor to the closure of the business because Hudson’s Bay was intent to on keeping the company alive and as much of its sprawling footprint operational as possible.

One week later, the company finds itself in much more dire shape, saying its “exhaustive” efforts haven’t turned up the financing it needs.

Hudson’s Bay laid the groundwork for its creditor protection case when it spun its U.S. Saks locations off into a separate entity last year after it purchased luxury department stores Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, essentially saving them from the impending closures now set to engulf HBC in Canada.

A full liquidation in Canada wouldn’t just plunge a large portion of the country’s retail workforce into unemployment but would also leave anchor tenant spaces in malls and prestige real estate in high-traffic shopping districts in need of filling.

The sites Hudson’s Bay operates in often contain several floors and make up significantly more square footage than other retailer businesses.

The bulk of the company’s stores are in Ontario, where it has 32 locations and more than half of its employees work. B.C. hosts 16, Alberta and Quebec each have 13 and Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan have two per province.

Saks Fifth Avenue’s Canadian sites are split between Ontario and Alberta and Saks Off 5th has stores in Ontario, B.C., Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba.

While the company’s coast-to-coast footprint and its 17th century fur trade origins have made it a quintessential part of the fabric of Canada, it has been led by Americans for several decades now.

American real estate kingpin Richard Baker’s National Realty and Development Corp. Equity Partners bought Hudson’s Bay in 2008 from the widow of late South Carolina businessman Jerry Zucker for $1.1 billion.

Baker took the company public in 2012 and then turned it private again with a takeover bid that had to be boosted twice to earn shareholder approval in the weeks before Canada was hit with COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

Shareholders were difficult to appease in part because Baker presided over HBC while its stock was dropping — but many thought the company still carried immense value in its real estate.

When he gained their approval, he admitted the brand had work to do.

“It will take patient capital and a long-term view to fully unleash HBC’s potential at the intersection of real estate and retail,” he said in March 2020.

A handful of store closures and piecemeal layoffs over the last two years suggest that unleashing that potential was not easy as rivals like fellow Canadian department store Simon’s expanded and online giants such as Amazon gobbled up sales.

—With files from Sammy Hudes

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Two skiers are dead after separate avalanches in the Alberta backcountry.

Stuart Brideaux of Alberta Health Services EMS says one person died after an avalanche near Lake Louise and the other died in Kananaskis Country on Friday afternoon.

An incident report on Avalanche Canada’s website says two people who were skiing “out of bounds” from the Lake Louise ski area were making their way back when one of them triggered an avalanche.

It says the second skier pulled the first one out from under roughly two metres of snow and performed first aid, though Brideaux says he was later declared dead.

Dan Markham, communications director with the Lake Louise Ski Resort, says the avalanche took place outside resort boundaries.

Brideaux says that later in the afternoon, another skier died near the Black Prince day use area in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park.

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Despite calling for its demise for years, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she isn’t phased by the new prime minister’s move to kill the consumer carbon levy.

On Friday — moments after news broke that Prime Minister Mark Carney had eliminated the pricing scheme — Smith told reporters in Calgary the real test of the new federal government will be how it levies carbon pricing on industrial polluters.

“Every time I have heard the new prime minister speak, he has said that he doesn’t think (industrial) prices are high enough,” she said.

“I don’t think it does Alberta any good if we end up seeing massive increases to industrial carbon taxes.”

Carney issued an order-in-council Friday, ending the consumer portion of the carbon pricing program just hours after he was sworn into office.

He said people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment in April — around the same time the price was to increase to $95 from $80 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions.

Removing the consumer carbon tax was a move Carney promised during his leadership campaign, while also committing to increasing the levy charged to industrial polluters.

Alberta has had its own version of an industrial carbon tax in place for more than a decade, and Smith said it was unclear if an increase under the federal program would simply add to the provincial levy.

Smith said that uncertainty, and Carney’s commitment to bolstering industrial pollution levies, is why she wants to see an election called immediately.

“That’s why we need an election — to get some clarity on just how badly he’s going to punish the oil and gas sector and what that new industrial pricing scheme he talked about during the leadership race is going to look like,” she said.

For years Smith, and her United Conservative predecessor Jason Kenney, said Ottawa’s carbon pricing program was to blame for cost-of-living issues across the country, especially in Alberta.

In 2019, when Jason Kenney was premier, Alberta took Ottawa to court over the pricing scheme seeking it be declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court ruled in the federal government’s favour in 2021.

Last fall Smith’s government announced it was taking Ottawa to court over the carbon tax again, but this time over an exemption given to those who use home heating oil, largely in the Atlantic provinces.

“The federal carbon tax has always been unfair, but the selective way it’s being applied now is also unconstitutional, and the impacts on Albertans will only get worse as the costs continue to increase,” Smith said at the time.

Smith had also previously called on Ottawa to give an exemption for farmers using propane to dry grain and natural gas to heat barns.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the levy ending but has also called on the federal government to scrap it, saying the levy has made life more expensive and harms businesses.

In 2021, Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government also took Ottawa to the Supreme Court challenging the price but losing in a ruling that deemed the levy was constitutional.

Last year, Saskatchewan stopped remitting levies to Ottawa on natural gas after the Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau had exempted home-heating oil users from paying.

Ottawa and Saskatchewan then reached an agreement securing the federal government half of what was owed until the dispute is resolved.

Opposition NDP Leader Carla Beck welcomed the end of the carbon levy Friday, saying in a statement: “Great. Finally.”

Eliminating the consumer charge will reduce the cost of a litre of gasoline by 17.6 cents, and reduce the cost a cubic metre of natural gas by a little more than 15 cents.

— with files from Jeremy Simes in Regina

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The City of Waterloo says police will be allowed to detain and charge anyone who attends or hosts an unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day street party or otherwise violates its nuisance bylaw over the weekend.

The city says it obtained an injunction in an effort to help law enforcement deal with large, unsanctioned gatherings, which it says are a “significant concern.”

In previous years, people taking part in such events could face a ticket or fine under the city’s nuisance bylaw.

Officials say that’s still on the table even with the injunction in place.

The injunction covers a period starting today until Monday night.

Meanwhile, Hamilton says it will have a zero-tolerance approach to large unsanctioned parties in its university district until Monday night, with penalties of up to $10,000 for a first infraction and up to $25,000 for any additional violations.

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Ontario’s mental health and addictions minister says the government isn’t in a place to consider involuntary treatment for people in crisis because the current system is already under too much stress.

In a sit-down interview with Focus Ontario, Michael Tibollo laid out how he wants to overhaul Ontario’s mental health and addictions system to ensure everyone can access services near them in less than a week.

“One of the things that we’ve tried to do is build sufficient capacity in withdrawal management,” he said.

“We’re trying to build those locally because those are the most important parts to enter into the system of care.”

His work on the key file comes as Ontario struggles with an increasingly complex addiction crisis.

For the past year, mayors have been demanding the Ford government overhaul its approach to mental health, addictions and its root causes. Encampments have sprung up in major cities and small towns, while health services have struggled to keep up.

Opioid overdose deaths, in particular, have exploded. The number of fatal overdoses in homeless shelters tripled during the pandemic, while an increasing number of overdoses include more than one drug.

Tibollo said the resources the province has been able to open have been extremely well used. The 280 beds Ontario has managed to get online have seen 12,000 visits.

“(That) is telling me that if we build capacity into the system, people are going to come in for the support,” he said.

“The wait times vary depending on where you are in the province, the province is very large and one of the biggest issues that I have is, how do I put each of these programs — these continuums of care — in each community? Because we know evidence supports that the best results, the lowest recidivism rates, will take place when you provide those supports as close as possible to home.”

As Ontario’s addiction crisis intensified last year, a group of mayors asked the Ford government to consider new rules that would allow people to be forced to receive treatment.

The Big City Mayors Caucus, representing 29 municipalities, wrote to the province asking for an urgent review of mental health laws to work out whether or not to expand involuntary treatment for people addicted to drugs and living on the street.

At the time, neither Minister of Health Sylvia Jones nor Tibollo ruled it out.

On Focus Ontario, Tibollo said the province was “not in a position to want to do anything” around involuntary treatment because the system is already struggling to keep up with demand.

“Until I’ve got a system where I can meet a person within 72 hours, to have that conversation is premature because I can’t give the service to the people that are asking. How can I impose or want to impose treatment? It’s a conversation that has to take place at some point,” he said.

“The system’s not ready for it and we don’t have the legislation that allows it.”

Tibollo said legislation would be required if the province decided to introduce involuntary treatment.

— with files from The Canadian Press

Focus Ontario premiers at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 15 on Global TV.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s many grievances with Canada on trade have begun to focus on the cross-border dairy market — including accusations Canada charges triple-digit tariffs on U.S. products.

Trump is set to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign trading partners starting April 2 that will match duties charged on American products. He has made clear that will include Canadian dairy, in response to what he says are Canadian tariffs of at least 250 per cent and beyond.

“Canada is absolutely one of the worst … in terms of charging tariffs,” he said in the Oval Office last week, specifically pointing to dairy tariffs he said go as high as 400 per cent.

The truth is more complicated.

Canada does charge high tariffs on dairy exporters that exceed certain quantities set under North American free trade rules — an agreement re-negotiated by Trump during his first term — but not as steep as Trump claims.

The federal government tells Global News that to date, no U.S. dairy products imported by Canada have been subjected to those higher tariffs.

“We administer the dairy supply management system respecting Canada’s international obligations under trade agreements, whatever the terms of those agreements may be,” Philippe Charlebois, a spokesperson for the Canadian Dairy Commission, said in a statement.

Mary Ng, who served as international trade minister in Justin Trudeau’s government, put it more bluntly last week, telling reporters that Trump’s claims about dairy “are just not true.”

Canada’s supply management system, which dates back to the 1970s, has restricted foreign access to the Canadian dairy market in order to protect domestic producers and set quality standards for products.

When the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) was negotiated in 2018 to replace NAFTA, it gave the U.S. some limited access under so-called tariff rate quotas, which dictate how much product American producers can export to Canada per year before facing higher duties.

For example, Canada places a tariff of 7.5 per cent on many milk and cream products if they are “within access commitment,” meaning the items do not exceed the agreed-upon cap.

If an importer wants to go over that threshold, they face a tariff of between 241 per cent and nearly 300 per cent, according to the federal customs tariff schedule.

“Only once this maximum quantity has been reached for a given year does Canada impose tariffs above 200 per cent on American dairy products,” Charlebois said.

“To date, 100 per cent of U.S. dairy imports to Canada were made free of tariff.”

In posts on Truth Social this week, Trump called out the hefty levies on some farm goods, writing Tuesday that, “Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250 per cent to 390 per cent on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous.”

In the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said the tariffs “go up to 400 per cent — you never hear of that.”

The claims of a 390 or 400 per cent tariff are false. The steepest food tariff, which applies to some milk-based fats and oils, tops out at 313.5 per cent for products that exceed the import caps, according to the Canadian tariff schedule.

Imports from the United States are also subject to Canada’s five per cent goods and services tax, while Canadian products face no such premium when they cross into the U.S. But that federal tax is meant to ensure American items don’t enjoy an edge over those made in Canada, which are likewise subject to GST.

Importers of American goods into Canada — based here or stateside — can recover that GST by registering with the Canada Revenue Agency and filing corporate taxes.

Charlebois pointed out in his statement that under CUSMA, “the U.S. uses the same system of tariff-free imports of certain Canadian products up to a set quantity before imposing tariffs.”

The U.S. does have its own limits for foreign dairy imports from all countries, but set at different levels.

Canada’s maximum allowable dairy exports to the U.S. are lower than those for other countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission’s harmonized tariff schedule.

American tariff quotas are also set on other Canadian imports like sugar.

The Canadian Dairy Commission says the dairy trade balance is “overwhelmingly in favour of the U.S.”

The value of American dairy exports to Canada since CUSMA came into effect in 2020 has increased by almost 50 per cent, totalling more than US$1 billion last year — nearly triple what Canada sold to the U.S. in 2024.

“This increased U.S. access came at a direct cost to Canadian dairy farmers, reducing their market share and weakening the stability of Canada’s domestic dairy sector,” David Wiens, president of Dairy Farmers of Canada, said in a statement last week after Trump first threatened new tariffs on Canadian dairy.

“We call upon our federal and provincial governments to defend our economy, and safeguard our national food security and sovereignty.”

Dairy farmers raised similar concerns about stability of the Canadian sector during CUSMA negotiations. The federal government announced in 2019, after the new trade pact was secured, that it would provide $1.75 billion over eight years to dairy producers impacted by the changes to market access.

Despite the increased access, the U.S. has continued to accuse Canada of intentionally “bottlenecking” American dairy exports to give the Canadian market an unfair advantage, filing grievances through CUSMA’s dispute resolution system and the World Trade Organization.

In 2023, a panel of experts ruled in Canada’s favour after American dairy farmers argued that its system of low-tariff dairy import permits blocks full access to the 3.5 per cent share of the Canadian market they thought they’d been granted under the revised pact.

After that ruling, the U.S. Dairy Export Council said the decision “weakens (CUSMA’s) value to the U.S. dairy industry.”

The trade pact is up for scheduled review next year. Trump, on his first day in office, launched consultations with American businesses and producers on CUSMA’s impacts with reports due back April 1.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in January he wanted to see American dairy farmers treated more fairly in those upcoming trade talks.

But higher tariffs on dairy products could come before then under Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs. It remains unclear if those tariffs will follow the conditions surrounding export caps or quotas, or cover all products at a similar rate.

The federal government said it’s “difficult to predict the full extent of the impact of any proposed U.S. tariffs would have on Canada’s dairy industry, due to factors like the fluctuating Canadian dollar and markets, but added it’s ready to respond if necessary.

“The Canadian Dairy Commission is ready to ensure that the tools and policies are in place to manage a range of scenarios,” Charlebois said.

— with files from the Canadian Press

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Landon Sim scored twice and added an assist as the London Knights downed the Saginaw Spirit 3-1 on March 14 at Canada Life Place.

The victory was the seventh straight for the Knights as they honoured head coach Dale Hunter for his 1000th win before the game.

The intensity looked more like early playoffs than late regular season for two teams whose post-season positions are basically decided.

London and Saginaw exchanged first period goals by defencemen as Zayne Parekh scored at even strength for the Spirit and Oliver Bonk replied on a power play for London.

Knights defenceman P.J. Fagan dropped the gloves with Hayden Barch, the son of former London forward Krys Barch.

Landon Sim put London ahead 2-1 with another Knights power play goal that came at 2:04 of the second period. Sam Dickinson picked up his second assist on the night and moved to within two points of Evan Bouchard and Rick Corriveau for most points in a single season by a London defenceman.

At that point, Sim’s goal tied Dickinson for the Knights team lead with 28.

Sim scored the only goal of the third period as he hit 29 goals on the season to finish the scoring at 3-1.

Sim chased down Kristian Epperson as he tried to carry the puck out of the Spirit zone, took it away, spun and fired a low shot along the ice past Kaleb Papineau.

London played without captain Denver Barkey and forward Sam O’Reilly. Both Knights players are listed as out day-to-day with upper body injuries.

Austin Elliott recorded the victory in goal for London and is now 30-1 for London in 2024-25.

The Knights were a perfect 2-for-2 on the power play and a perfect 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

London outshot Saginaw 28-27.

London Knights home games set for round one

The Knights don’t yet know who they will face in the first round of the 2025 OHL playoffs but they do know when the games will happen.

Sarnia, Owen Sound and Sault Ste. Marie are the possible opponents and Game 1 will be at 7 p.m., on Friday, March 28. Game 2 will be Sunday, March 30 at 2 p.m. If necessary, Game 5 will take place Friday, April 4 at Canada Life Place. Game 7 would be Tuesday, April 8.

Both of those games would be 7 p.m. starts.

Up next

London will head for Windsor to play the Spitfires on Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m.

The clubs still have two games against each other head-to-head.

The home team has won all of the games in the season series so far. Both teams are 2-2 overall.

Coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m., on 980 CFPL, at 980cfpl.ca and on the iHeart Radio and Radioplayer Canada apps.

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Leon Draisaitl scored his second goal of the night on a breakaway 3:52 into overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Friday night.

Calvin Pickard finished with 24 saves to help the Oilers win for the fourth time in seven games.

“He gives us a chance every single time he is in net,” said Draisaitl after the game when asked about Pickard’s play. “You can not ask for anymore then that. We love playing for him.”

Bo Horvat scored for the Islanders and Ilya Sorokin finished with 33 saves. New York lost its third straight.

In the extra period, Draisaitl got a pass from Connor McDavid and skated up and beat Sorokin for his NHL-leading 49th goal of the season.

“I’ve seen Leon just take control of his game,” Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said after the win. “He has always been dominate. Every night he is one of the best forwards, every single night. That is a star player.”

The Oilers outshot the Islanders 17-6 in a scoreless first period, and Draisaitl got them on the scoreboard with a slap shot from the top of the left circle at 8:46 of the second.

Horvat tied it 1-1 for the Islanders at 1:21 of the third as he skated up the right side on a 2-on-1 break with Anthony Duclair, kept the puck and beat Pickard for his 21st.

Takeaways

Oilers: Edmonton had lost 8 of 11 to drop to third place in the Pacific Division. With the win, the Oilers moved past Los Angeles back into second.

Islanders: New York had won four of five before their current losing streak. They earned a point to pull to four points out of a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Key moment

The Islanders’ Pierre Engvall tried to catch Pickard off-guard with a shot from the slot in overtime, but the goalie swatted it away to the side. The puck was knocked back toward Pickard, and he knocked it forward, where McDavid got it and passed it up to Draisaitl for the breakaway goal to win it.

Key stat

The Islanders outhit the Oilers 21-10 and blocked 22 shots to keep it a tight game.

Up next

Oilers play at New York Rangers on Sunday, and Islanders host Florida.

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The Dallas Stars may have made a lot of noise at the trade deadline, but there’s a reason why they went out to get someone like Mikko Rantanen.

The Stars felt the need to raise their level to match the Winnipeg Jets, and if Friday night was any indication, they’ve still got some work to do.

The Jets’ top line dominated, while Connor Hellebuyck was stellar in goal as Winnipeg knocked off the Stars 4-1 in front of a raucous crowd to stretch their lead atop the Central Division.

Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele each had three points in the win. The Jets built up a three-goal lead through 40 minutes and held the Stars to just eight shots in the third as Winnipeg won for the fourth time in their last five contests in their biggest game of the season.

“Every game now is going to be the next big game,” said Connor. “It’s going to keep getting bigger. So, we were able to rise to the test today and hopefully we learn some lessons on what that looks like, and kinda our foundation of how we were able to come out on top, and play such a good game tonight.”

The victory sees the Jets tighten their grip on the Central Division lead. They moved 10 points ahead of the second place Stars, but Dallas has two games in hand and they still have to play each other one more time.

“I think we kinda want to hit the ground running when playoffs start,” said forward Morgan Barron. “I don’t think anyone wants to creep in, not playing their best hockey. We’re trying to put our foot down here, really secure that first place, and that’s a big step for us.”

Connor scored twice, while Barron and Dylan Samberg also found the net. The Jets were outshot in the both first two periods despite having all three goals.

“We had to be at our best against a really good hockey team that doesn’t give you a whole lot of ice,” said head coach Scott Arniel. “I thought we had a fantastic first period. It was real solid and got out and got the lead, and didn’t stop from there.”

The Jets got on the board first thanks to an unlikely source. Connor carried the puck into the Dallas end before sliding it across to Scheifele, who spun back and held the puck while waiting for Samberg to arrive in the zone. Scheifele hit the trailer and Samberg wired a shot past Jake Oettinger at the 8:01 mark for his fifth of the season and his eighth in 201 career NHL games.

Scheifele came oh-so-close to making to making it 2-0 with roughly six minutes to go in the first when he got the puck on a back-door feed and made a move to his backhand, beating Oettinger but he slid his shot off the post.

Winnipeg’s top line wasn’t done attacking, doubling the lead with 2:58 to go in the first. Gabriel Vilardi battled for the puck in the corner before it arrived on the stick of Scheifele, who sent a short pass to Connor that he whipped through an unsuspecting Oettinger for his 34th of the season.

Dallas wound up outshooting Winnipeg 9-6 in the first, but the Jets had the better quality opportunities.

The big game for the Jets’ big guns continued in the second when Connor tallied his second of the game to make it 3-0.

After Josh Morrissey forced a turnover in the Winnipeg end, Scheifele chipped the puck up the boards and Connor collected it just outside the Dallas blue line. Connor waited for Morrissey to enter the play and executed a perfect give-and-go before Connor wired the puck past Oettinger at the 6:43 mark of the second.

With 4:15 left in the middle frame, the first penalty of the contest was finally called as Colin Miller was sent to the box for interference, but the Stars couldn’t cash in as the score stayed 3-0 after 40 minutes.

Dallas outshot Winnipeg 8-4 in the second, but Hellebuyck kept the sheet clean.

The Jets added on at the 7:26 mark of the third when Morgan Barron tipped a Dylan DeMelo point shot past Oettinger to make it 4-0.

With the game well in hand, the only thing left to determine was whether Hellebuyck would pick up the shutout, and with 3:49 left in the game Mason Marchment broke the goose egg for Dallas.

Still, it was a great game for Hellebuyck, who outdueled his Team USA batterymate by stopping 24 shots while Oettinger turned aside 18 in defeat.

Winnipeg will look to stretch their win streak to three games as they hit the road to face Seattle on Sunday evening. Pregame coverage on 680 CJOB begins at 6 p.m. with the puck dropping just after 8 p.m.

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