WINNIPEG , Manitoba (AP) was on full display Tuesday night.Blake Wheeler had a goal and three assists as the Jets scored on 33 percent of their shots in a 7-4 victory over the Colorado Avalanche.Mathieu Perreault, Kyle Connor, Bryan Little, Andrew Copp, Mark Scheifele and Jacob Trouba also scored for Winnipeg, which converted three of four power-play opportunities. Trouba, Scheifele and Tyler Myers each had two assists.I think we like what we can do offensively, Wheeler said. So theres going to be nights where we pour it on and their goalie plays well. And theres going to be nights where we get a few and make the most of our chances.Gabriel Landeskog scored twice and set a career high with his 27th goal for Colorado. Carl Soderberg had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Graves also scored. Nathan MacKinnon and Tyson Barrie each contributed two assists.Connor Hellebuyck made 37 saves for the Jets, who have won two straight and improved to 3-3 in their last six games.That was pretty fun, Scheifele said about the wide-open game. Im sure the fans loved it. Im good with it.Philipp Grubauer stopped 14 shots for Colorado, which ended a six-game skid with a 6-1 win over the Rangers on Friday.The Jets scored three times on the power play and once short-handed to lead 4-3 after the second period. They led 4-1 early in the second, but the Avalanche scored twice late in the period.We always say we have good character , but (we dont) really care right now, Colorado forward Mikko Rantanen said. Its two points that we care about. Its nice to have a good character, but if you cant win, its tough. So we just have to focus on winning.Copp scored at 3:59 of the third and Scheifele made it 6-3 after Wheeler intercepted a pass and sent the puck to him on a breakaway. Scheifeles shot hit Grubauer, the puck flew up and Scheifele swatted it into the net at 11:12 for his 23rd of the season.Landeskog scored with just more than three minutes remaining.Trouba scored into an empty net on the power play with 1:06 left.We have to stay positive, even if weve been losing a lot, Soderberg said. Its still a new game tomorrow and I think we played pretty good. Take that with us and battle even harder tomorrow.NOTES: MacKinnon extended his point streak to seven games (four goals, six assists). Barrie is on a five-game point streak, with one goal and seven assists.UP NEXTAvalanche: Continue their five-game trip to Canada in Calgary on Wednesday night.Jets: Play at Minnesota on Thursday night. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Nashville Predators took care of several issues Tuesday night at the expense of the Arizona Coyotes.None meant more than ending their power-play woes, if only for one night.Filip Forsberg ended an 0-for-34 power-play drought as part of Nashvilles three-goal second period, and the Predators beat the Coyotes 5-2 Tuesday night to snap a three-game skid at home.Weve been having a lot of good looks lately, but at the end of the day , its about scoring goals and we were fortunate to do that tonight, Forsberg said. I think we played well enough to have a couple more on the power play as well, but we will take one for tonight.Roman Josi scored an empty-net goal with 2:50 left and had two assists, Ryan Ellis had a goal and an assist and Craig Smith and Calle Jarnkrok each had goals.Pekka Rinne made 24 saves as Nashville avoided being swept by Arizona this season, though the Coyotes did take the series 2-1.The Predators hadnt scored on the man advantage since Jan. 9 in a win at Chicago and not at home since a loss to the Rangers on Dec. 29. They went 1 for 5 against Arizona.We had a lot of looks and a lot of opportunities, Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. I thought that there could have been more than one . a couple of miscues on the shot, a couple of big saves, a couple couldnt find their way in. Fil made a terrific shot coming in on his.Vinnie Hinostroza and Derek Stepan scored for Arizona, which finished a six-game swing with a fourth straight loss.The Coyotes played their second game in as many nights without eight regulars due to injuries, and Calvin Pickard started in his 100th career NHL game with goalie Darcy Kuemper day-to-day with an upper body injury and made 42 saves.(He) was by far our best player tonight and kept us in and gave us a chance, Stepan said. Thats all you ask from your goaltender. Unfortunately, we just didnt have the extra magic that we needed.These teams hadnt met since the end of November, and Nashville managed only a goal in the two losses to Arizona.The Coyotes luck appeared to continue as Pickard made a stop on Forsberg late in the first period with the puck bouncing off his head and over the net , then the Coyotes went the other way with Hinostroza beating Rinne with a wrister from the slot at 16:59.Arizona had a 5-on-3 for 41 seconds in the first minute of the second period after Nashville captain Roman Josi cleared the puck over the glass, hitting a child behind the penalty box. The child walked out on his own with his family a few minutes later, and Nashville killed the penalties. Then Smith scored his 15th goal this season and first in a month on a wrister off a rebound at 2:58, tying it up for Nashville.The 5-on-3 has actually killed us the last couple of games, Arizona coach Rick Tocchet said.The Predators, who came in with a lengthy scoring drought with the man advantage, failed to convert on their first two power plays to extend the skid to 0 of 34. Hinostroza went to the box for holding Predators forward Kevin Fiala, and Nashville finally converted. Josi found Forsberg, whose wrister from the top of the right circle beat Pickards glove at 7:45 for a 2-1 lead against what had been the NHLs stingiest on the penalty kill.Then Ellis made it 3-1 at 13:37 of the period off a rebound as Nashville outshot the Coyotes 19-6 in the second.NOTES: Nashville improved to 9-16-3 when allowing the first goal this season and 6-12-2 when trailing after one. The Predators are 26-2-0 when leading after two periods Arizona had only allowed 22 power-play goals this season, fewest in the NHL.UP NEXTCoyotes: Host Columbus on Thursday night.Predators: Host Dallas on Thursday night.
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