The last time a Jet scored a short-handed penalty shot goal, the Jets weren’t planes, but birds. Patrick Stefan scored in 2003 for the Atlanta Thrashers, and Eric Perrin scored in 2008.

Kyle Conner went roof daddy, and Jets redux history was updated.

Connor scored a short-handed, penalty shot goal at 12:13 of the second period in Saturday’s 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

“You’ve always got a few moves going through your head coming in,” Connor said about his penalty shot. “I like to read and react to how the goalie reads or bites, or something else. It just kind of opened up.”

Connor skated in and went backhand, top shelf on the glove side of Penguins netminder Arturs Silovs.

“He comes so fast,” Silovs said. “I thought he was going to be a little bit slower, so I (didn’t) have

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