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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mikko Rantanen had two goals Justin Braun Jersey Kids , Matt Nieto and Gabriel Landeskog also scored, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Monday night.The Avalanche continued their early-season hot streak and finished 3-0-1 on their four-game road trip. Landeskog had a hat trick on the trip against New Jersey and clinched this one with his eighth goal of the season early in the third period.Semyon Varlamov was solid in net and stopped 37 shots.The Flyers suffered their third home loss of the season.Rantanen needed only 3:23 to beat Brian Elliott for his third goal of the season and the quick lead. Nathan MacKinnon set up Rantanen for the power-play score, and they became the first players in franchise history with concurrent nine-game point streaks to start the season.Nolan Patrick scored a third-period goal for the Flyers. Brian Elliott finished with 29 saves.HURRICANES 3, RED WINGS 1DETROIT (AP) — Michael Ferland scored in his fourth straight game and Sebastian Aho had an assist and set a franchise record for points in consecutive games to start a season as Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak.Defenseman Justin Faulk also scored, and Jordan Martinook added an empty-net goal for the Hurricanes.Petr Mrazek, who was drafted by Detroit in 2010 and played a number of seasons with the Red wings, made 20 saves.Sebastian assisted on Ferland’s second-period goal. The assist stretched his season-opening points streak to nine games (four goals and 10 assists), surpassing the franchise record of eight by Victor Rask (2016-17).Andreas Athanasiou scored for Detroit.JETS 5, BLUES 4, OTWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Bryan Little tied it late in the third period and Jacob Trouba scored in overtime to help Winnipeg overcome a two-goal deficit.Trouba took a pass from Kyle Connor and shot into an open side of the net behind goalie Jake Allen. It was Trouba’s first goal of the season.Mark Scheifele scored twice and Ben Chiarot added a goal Winnipeg.Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and two assists for St. Louis Youth Kevin Labanc Jersey , and David Perron, Vince Dunn and Colton Parayko also scored.Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg (6-2-1), which has points in five straight games (4-0-1).Allen stopped 31 shots for the Blues (2-3-3), who finished a three-game trip (1-1-1) through Canada.CAPITALS 5, CANUCKS 2VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Alex Ovechkin had two goals and two assists to lift Washington over Vancouver.The defending Stanley Cup champions also got goals from John Carlson, Evgeny Kuznetsov and T.J. Oshie.Troy Stecher and Sven Baertschi scored for the Canucks.Braden Holtby stopped 22 shots for Washington, while Vancouver’s Anders Nilsson turned away 28. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Connor Hellebuyck delivered the dominant performance he needed with backup Laurent Brossoit nipping at his net.Hellebuyck made 37 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Nashville Predators 5-1 on Thursday night to stay alone atop the Central Division in a midseason showdown between rivals.“I like this rink, too,” Hellebuyck said. “Good memories here www.sanjosesharkstea… , too. Something about this place, it just suits my style I guess. I was excited. I was excited to play tonight, and I think it showed.”Hellebuyck improved to 21-13-1 with a big win after Brossoit moved to 10-1-1 with a win over Vegas on Tuesday night.The Jets leave Nashville four points ahead of the Predators with two games in hand. Their final two meetings this season are at Winnipeg in March. The Jets edged Nashville in seven games in the second round of the playoffs last year.Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said Hellebuyck was really, really good.“He had two or three glove saves that you have to make because this building, it’s like ours,” Maurice said. “If the home team scores a goal, you saw when they scored a goal it got going in here. He kept the building quiet with two, three really important saves.”Brendan Lemieux had two goals for the Jets, who won their fourth straight game. Mason Appleton, Bryan Little and Brandon Tanev also scored. Sami Niku and Joe Morrow each added two assists.“This was one of those games that you circle on your calendar and know it’s going to be a fun one, so I was looking forward to it and it was awesome Martin Jones Jersey ,” Lemieux said. “Our line played great. It’s good. It’s always good when you can chip in offensively.”Viktor Arvidsson scored his fourth goal in two games for Nashville, which has lost three of four.The Predators had won five of the last six against the Jets on home ice, not counting that playoff series in which Winnipeg took three of four in Nashville to reach the Western Conference final. Nashville shut out Winnipeg 3-0 on Oct. 11.“It was a big game for us,” Predators captain Roman Josi said. “They are right in front of us. They are obviously a great team in our division. It was a big game for us and definitely not happy with the result, but then we’ve got to learn from it.”Nashville started strong, swarming Hellebuyck in the opening minutes. Yet Winnipeg took a 1-0 lead when Lemieux finished off a wraparound by squeezing the puck between the post and Pekka Rinne’s left skate midway through the first period for his fourth this season.The Jets thought they had a 2-0 lead on a wrister by Blake Wheeler late in the period, but Nashville won its challenge that Winnipeg was offside.Nashville started the second on a man advantage only to see Winnipeg quickly get the goal back. Rinne turned away a backhand from Niku on a breakaway, then 30 seconds later Appleton went to the net and redirected the puck into an open net for a 2-0 lead at 3:36.Arvidsson, who had his second career hat trick in a 7-2 win over Washington on Tuesday night, nearly got Nashville on the board with a breakaway. But Hellebuyck made a save that caught the person in charge of the goal horn off guard, already trying to start the celebration.“It wasn’t even close Womens Melker Karlsson Jersey ,” Hellebuyck said. “That’s kind of rude.”Arvidsson got his sixth goal in five games at 11:57 of the period with a wrister off a rebound to pull Nashville to 2-1.Little gave Winnipeg a 3-1 lead with 45.6 seconds left in the period, swatting the puck past Rinne off the rebound of Patrik Laine’s shot.Tanev made it 4-1 when he redirected a shot by Niku at 1:54 of the third. Lemieux got his second at 15:38.“They are a fast team, and they are big,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. “It’s not like we’ve never beaten the Jets. They’ve always been this way. Tonight they had their game. They were better.”NOTES: The Jets had lost back-to-back road games but have not lost three straight on the road in regulation since December 2016. … Little extended his point streak to seven games. He has five goals and four assists in that span. … The Predators are 6-15-3 when allowing the first goal. … Arvidsson has 25 points (18 goals, seven assists) in 25 games played this season. His goal tied him with Washington’s Alex Ovechkin , averaging .72 goals per game for best in the NHL.UP NEXTJets: Visit the Dallas Stars on Saturday.Predators: Host the Florida Panthers on Saturday.