WINNIPEG -- Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in a 6:38 span in the first period, and the Winnipeg Jets cruised to a 6-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in the first period to spark the Winnipeg Jets to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. The left-winger’s ...

Connor McDavid and Corey Perry scored in the second period and the Oilers rallied to beat the Kraken 4-2 on Monday in Edmonton.

Conor Garland had two goals, and J.T. Miller and Pius Suter also scored to help the Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2.

Four-point games consume those on the outside of NHL playoff positioning. That urgency usually starts in March, not in late January. It speaks to the Vancouver Canucks and their level of desperation to turn a sour first half of this adversity and injury plagued season into a sweet push for a post-season berth.

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Montreal always seems to give Winnipeg a tough test, especially in their own building. The Jets lost 4-3 in a shootout during last year’s annual visit (Laurent Brossoit was in net), and fell 4-1 the previous season (with Hellebuyck between the pipes).

Sidney Crosby is one of them. McDavid, after being held to the ice by Vancouver’s Conor Garland for a handful of seconds in the final moments of the Canucks’ 3-2 win on Saturday, lost his temper and cross-checked the Canucks forward in the face. It earned McDavid a three-game suspension, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced Monday.

The Calgary Flames will battle the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday. It will be a Canadian classic at the MTS Centre as we share our NHL odds series and make a Flames-Jets prediction and pick. The Jets are 34-31 in the past 65 games against the Flames.

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Goals from MacKenzie Weegar and Nazem Kadri kept the Flames in it despite two from Gabriel Viladri for the Jets, but there was never a sustained period where it felt like they had it in them to fully flip the script. Two power-play goals in the third for the Jets sealed the deal.