WINNIPEG – Andrew Ladd scored the winning goal in the second period as the Winnipeg Jets put together their first home win of the season 4-2 against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night.

Evander Kane, Dustin Byfuglien and Blake Wheeler, with a late empty-net goal, also scored for the Jets (2-1-1).

It didn’t start that well for Winnipeg after Sidney Crosby put on a scoring clinic in the first with two goals to give Pittsburgh (2-2-0) a 2-0 lead.

The sellout crowd was loud as the Jets shot for their first home win of the season, but Crosby silenced them at just 4:26.

He raised one past netminder Ondrej Pavelec’s right shoulder on the short side, grazing the post and slipping through a gap that looked too small for a puck to fit.

A little more than 10 minutes later Crosby skated in front of the net and finessed a soft backhander past Pavelec and Winnipeg defenceman Dustin Byfuglien before either knew what happened. It was Crosby’s third goal of the early season.

But it was all Jets in the second, as Kane re-ignited crowd again just over a minute in on a pass from Wheeler and Byfuglien, right in front of Penguins netminder Tomas Vokoun.

Byfuglien evened things up as he slammed one in from the blue-line after a little back and forth with partner Tobias Enstrom, taking advantage of a holding penalty against Evgeni Malkin.

Ladd then put the Jets ahead for good from the right faceoff circle on a quick pass from linemate Bryan Little at 17:54.