WINNIPEG – Mark Scheifele reached a historic milestone as he scored a first period power-play goal to help the Winnipeg Jets defeat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Saturday night.

The Jets assistant captain converted a pass from Kyle Connor to score his sixth goal of the season at 2:39. That was the 813th point of his career, moving him past Blake Wheeler. Alex Iafallo also assisted.

Vladislav Namestnikov, on the power play, Logan Stanley and Nino Niederreiter also scored for Winnipeg.

Namestnikov and Niederreiter added assists and Jonathan Toews had two helpers.

Michael Bunting replied for Nashville with 1:04 left in the game.

Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg (4-1-0) before 14,309 fans at Canada Life Centre.

Juuso Saros stopped 20 of 24 shots for Nashville.

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