The slumping Edmonton Oilers power play scored three goals in a 6-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre. Mark Letestu scored twice on the man-advantage and had an assist and Leon Draisaitl also had two goals (one on the power play) and an assist for the Oilers (13-10-2), who ended a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). The Edmonton power play entered the game having scored twice in its previous 37 opportunities. Connor McDavid had three assists for Edmonton and leads the NHL with 34 points (11 goals, 23 assists). He has a seven-game point streak (six goals, nine assists). Draisaitl, who moved to the first line with McDavid and Milan Lucic, has 12 points (six goals, seven assists) in his past nine games. Cam Talbot made his seventh consecutive start for the Oilers and had 22 saves. Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck allowed six goals on 29 shots and was replaced by Michael Hutchinson, who made four saves in relief, in the third period. Jets rookie Patrik Laine had two goals, moving him into second in the NHL with 15 behind Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins (16). Bryan Little scored for the Jets (11-13-2), who ended a five-game home winning streak. The Jets scored 35 seconds into the game on Little's first of the season. However, Letestu followed 1:56 later with his third goal, ending a run of 15 games without a goal. Winnipeg had gone 1 for 21 on the power play when Laine's left-point slap shot slipped past Talbot at 10:14 for a 2-1 lead. Draisaitl's eighth goal 51 seconds into the second period made it 2-2. Letestu followed at 5:06 and Patrick Maroon put the Oilers ahead 4-2 at 11:43. Laine's second goal came at 1:44 of the third period before Draisaitl's ninth goal made it 5-3 at 7:13. Benoit Pouliot's fourth goal 20 seconds later made it 6-3.
* Letestu crashed the net on Edmonton's third goal, taking a pass to the slot and putting a shot high past Hellebuyck.
* McDavid fended off four Winnipeg players and put a shot on net, but Hellebuyck stopped the puck with a left-pad save late in the first period.
* Laine had plenty of open ice on a 5-on-3 power play that he used to put a rising slap shot past Talbot on his second goal.
* Letestu halted Winnipeg's momentum and energized the Edmonton bench with his first-period power-play goal.
* Three of Letestu's four goals have been against Winnipeg. … Lucic had two assists and has a six-game point streak (two goals, eight assists). … Oilers defenseman Andrej Sekera had two assists. … Little's goal was his first since Feb. 11; he had missed 48 games because of injuries dating back to last season before returning Tuesday. … Jets forward Mathieu Perreault (upper body) returned after missing 14 games. … Defenseman Toby Enstrom returned for Winnipeg after missing three games because of personal reasons.
"We got it to [within] a goal there in the third, and then they bounced back and got two more. It's kind of deflating." Blake Wheeler
Andrew Copp made up for a costly missed shot to help the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 win against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center. Copp hit the crossbar at 13:00 of the third period, which would've given the Jets a 2-0 lead, but the Blackhawks created a 2-on-1 rush off the rebound and tied it at 13:06 on a goal by Artemi Panarin. Copp answered for Winnipeg by scoring his third goal of the season with 4:45 left to put the Jets back in front 2-1. Connor Hellebuyck made seven of his 25 saves in the final 3:53 of the period, including four during a power play for the Blackhawks (16-8-3). The Blackhawks got the late power play after Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba was assessed a high-sticking double minor. Marian Hossa had the Blackhawks' best chance to tie it during the man-advantage, but Hellebuyck denied him at the right post with 2.6 seconds left.
Bryan Little also scored for the Jets (13-13-2), who won back-to-back road games after defeating the St. Louis Blues 3-2 in overtime Saturday. Chicago played its sixth game without captain Jonathan Toews, who reportedly has a back injury. The Blackhawks played their second game without goalie Corey Crawford, who is out 2-3 weeks after having an appendectomy in Philadelphia on Saturday. Scott Darling made 30 saves for the Blackhawks, who are 3-2-1 without Toews and have 12 goals without him. They haven't scored a power-play goal in the past five games (0-for-13) and have been outshot 254-238 in their past 10 games at 5-on-5. Winnipeg played its second straight game without Mark Scheifele, who was a late scratch against the Blues with a lower-body injury.
* Copp scored the game-winner at 15:15 of the third period 2:15 after he hit the crossbar with the Jets leading 1-0. Winnipeg forced a turnover in the neutral zone, former Blackhawks forward Marko Dano got the puck to Copp and he shot past Darling to the far side of the net.
"[It's] just desperation mode. I learned the hard way never to give up. You've got to use your mind at that point. You get fatigued, you can't lose your mind. That's the first thing you need to focus on, just tracking the puck and making sure you're ahead of it." Connor Hellebuyck
"We've won some fortunate games. Our play's been sporadic. Offensively, it hasn't been as consistent as we'd like. We've won a lot of games comparable to how we lost today." Joel Quenneville.
* Copp scored the game-winner at 15:15 of the third period 2:15 after he hit the crossbar with the Jets leading 1-0. Winnipeg forced a turnover in the neutral zone, former Blackhawks forward Marko Dano got the puck to Copp and he shot past Darling to the far side of the net.
* Darling made three saves against breakaways, including two in the second period. His best followed a Blackhawks turnover that led to a breakaway for Ehlers at 8:33 of the second. Darling got his glove on the puck after Ehlers took a hard wrist shot and then dove to swat the puck away after it hit the right post.
* The Jets nearly took a 1-0 lead at 2:38 of the second period, but Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell contested Mathieu Perreault's shot off a rebound in the low slot in time to prevent a goal.
* Hellebuyck's last save was a big one. The Blackhawks had a 6-on-4 advantage with Darling pulled during a power play and worked the puck to Hossa alone in front of the net. Hellebuyck got his left skate over to stop the puck and froze it.
* Toews skated on his own Sunday, but Quenneville said the Blackhawks captain isn't showing progress. Toews will be kept off the ice for two or three days and be reassessed this week. … Chicago sent rookie center Nick Schmaltz to Rockford of the American Hockey League on Sunday and recalled first-year goalie Lars Johansson. … Crawford returned home with his teammates Saturday. ... The Jets have won the first two games against the Blackhawks this season by a combined score of 6-1.
* Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck made seven saves in the final 3:53 of the game.
Jets Quotes
"That's the sign of a good team is responding to a little bit of adversity. They had a little bit of momentum in the third, and we came back and got that lead right back … and then killing off that four-minute power play at the end was huge." Copp said."[It's] just desperation mode. I learned the hard way never to give up. You've got to use your mind at that point. You get fatigued, you can't lose your mind. That's the first thing you need to focus on, just tracking the puck and making sure you're ahead of it." Connor Hellebuyck
Hawks Quotes
"I still think we're playing the same style. The onus is on offensive guys to try and produce and take control and create a little bit more out there. It's all across the board, but I think myself, personally, I want to do a little bit better as far as creating and getting chances. That stems from hard work and getting the puck back." Patrick Kane said."We've won some fortunate games. Our play's been sporadic. Offensively, it hasn't been as consistent as we'd like. We've won a lot of games comparable to how we lost today." Joel Quenneville.
Detroit Red Wings @ Jets 4-3 SO - Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Thomas Vanek and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to help the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre. Anthony Mantha and Vanek each scored in the second period to erase Winnipeg's two-goal lead. Tomas Tatar also scored for Detroit (13-11-3). Petr Mrazek made 31 saves for his eighth win. He's 4-0-2 in his past six starts. Vanek's goal in the top half of the third round extended the shootout after Patrik Laine scored for the Jets in the bottom half of the second. Zetterberg scored on a backhand deke in the fourth round, and Mrazek made a save on Drew Stafford to end it. Laine, Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Copp scored for the Jets (13-13-3), who led 3-1 after the first period. Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves. Copp redirected Ben Chiarot's point shot past Mrazek for his fourth goal to make it 1-0 at 6:41. After Tatar batted the puck out of midair to tie it 1-1 at 7:05, Byfuglien scored at 11:22 to put the Jets up 2-1. Laine made it 3-1 at 13:06 with his 17th goal, tied with Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins for the NHL lead. Mantha scored at 10:59 of the second period to get Detroit to within 3-2. Winnipeg defenseman Toby Enstrom gave the puck away in the Jets zone to Dylan Larkin, who found Mantha in front of the net for his fourth goal. Vanek tied it 3-3 when he redirected Xavier Ouellet's slap pass by Hellebuyck with 2:08 left in the second period.
* Zetterberg faked going to his forehand and put a backhand shot up high over a sprawled Hellebuyck for the deciding goal in the shootout.
* Mrazek stopped Bryan Little on a breakaway at 2:56 of overtime. "I was trying to stay big," Mrazek said. "I thought he was going to shoot high glove. I closed the five-hole early.
* Defenseman Niklas Kronwall tipped a pass to break up a 2-on-1 shorthanded chance by the Jets in the third period.
* Jets forward Alexander Burmistrov left the game late in the second period because of an upper-body injury. Coach Paul Maurice said he wouldn't have an update until Wednesday.
"Careful about how much permanence you put on each game. We just played six straight fantastic, full-on periods, a seventh tonight, and the second is even in a lot of ways. We were struggling to find some legs in the third, and we couldn't find them." Paul Maurice
"I think we were pretty good (in the) first period. We didn't just keep going in the second. I don't know what happened. I think we just let the opponent come back into the game. That was just a mistake." said Laine, whose 25 points lead NHL rookies.
"They just did the simple things, got the puck deep, got on the forecheck and kept doing it. We couldn't find a way to take control." Byfuglien said.
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