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VANCOUVER http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/todd-gurley-ii-jersey , British Columbia (AP) — It took 18 games for Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine to finally break loose.After having scored just one even-strength goal heading into Monday’s game, Laine recorded a hat trick and led Winnipeg to a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks.Laine put the puck into an empty net with less than two minutes to go seal the victory.“I’m not going to say it out loud but obviously it’s bothering because you’re not producing five-on-five,” the 20-year-old Laine said.“But when you stay patient and work hard you are going to get rewarded like I got rewarded tonight. … And from now on, if I don’t score in the next 20 (games) 5-on-5, I am not going to lose it. I am just going to stay patient and keep working hard.”Bryan Little, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor also scored for Winnipeg.“He is really hard on himself and wants to get better at every aspect of his game,” Little said of Laine. “For him it’s just staying positive and not being so hard on himself.”Elias Pettersson, Tyler Motte and Nikolay Goldobin scored for Vancouver, which lost its sixth straight game.Connor Hellebuyck stopped 22 shots for the Jets. Jacob Markstrom made 43 saves for the Canucks.The Jets had 49 shots on goal, the most allowed by Vancouver in a game this season.But Vancouver head coach Travis Green said he still saw positives in his team’s performance, especially after going down 4-1 in the second period.“We made a game of it Authentic Cooper Kupp Jersey ,” Green said. “I didn’t expect them to just lay down. We’ve talked about how we want to play. And part of how we want to play is when it’s hard. When you’re up against it a little bit, you’ve got to dig deep and play.”Winnipeg opened the scoring just over a minute in after Markstrom tried to clear the puck along the boards. Little collected the puck at the point and hammered it in as Markstrom slid back into his net.The Canucks responded with a power-play goal after Dustin Byfuglien was called for slashing.Goldobin sent a behind-the-back pass to defenseman Ben Hutton, who fed Pettersson. The Canucks’ rookie fired a shot past Hellebuyck, tying the game.Pettersson now has 12 goals in his first 17 NHL games.Markstrom faced a barrage of 23 shots in the opening period, including a hard wrister from Nikolaj Ehlers that went off his blocker.The rebound popped out to the side and Scheifele poked it in to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.Winnipeg added another first-period goal when Connor scored on a power play. Connor’s point streak (four goals, three assists) is at five games.Midway through the second period, Pettersson and Hutton collided while trying to clear the puck from in front of the Vancouver net.Laine collected the puck and got off a quick wrist shot that sailed past Markstrom to make it 4-1 for the Jets.Motte got one back for the Canucks, scoring his second goal of the year on a short-handed breakaway.It was Goldobin who brought Vancouver within one. The right-winger slid the puck across the crease, forcing Hellebuyck to sprawl, then tucked it into the net behind the netminder’s skate.NOTES: Laine registered two goals in the third period for the sixth three-goal game of his career.UP NEXTJets: At Calgary on Wednesday.Canucks: At Anaheim on Wednesday. TORONTO (AP) Looking to extend one franchise mark and set another, the Toronto Maple Leafs entered Monday 25 spots ahead of the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL standings.That didn’t matter to Jack Eichel.The Sabres star scored his second goal of the game midway through the third period to lift last-place Buffalo over the Maple Leafs 3-2 and end Toronto’s club-record home winning streak at 13 games.Casey Nelson had the other goal for Buffalo, which got 39 saves from Chad Johnson to end a four-game slide. Zemgus Girgensons added two assists.”He’s a pro Cooper Kupp Jersey Elite ,” Sabres coach Phil Housley said of Johnson, who improved to 7-1-1 career against Toronto. ”He got an opportunity on short notice and did a terrific job.Patrick Marleau had a goal and an assist, and Nazem Kadri scored for Toronto. Frederik Andersen made 24 stops for the Leafs, who were also looking to set a franchise mark for victories in a season with 46.”We had lots of good things, but then we got carried away with it and gave up some chances,” Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. ”The bottom line is we did lots of good things, we didn’t win the game.”Eichel got his tiebreaker at 9:36 of the third when he swept down the left side, fought of Nikita Zaitsev and slipped a backhand through Andersen’s pads for his 24th.”Jack’s game all night was terrific,” Housley said. ”From start to finish, he really brought it.”After the Leafs turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead late in the second, the Sabres tied it at 7:56 of the third when Nelson scored on a shot from the point through traffic that went off defenseman Roman Polak.The Leafs challenged for goalie interference, but the call on the ice withstood a video review.Nelson’s third goal of the season came after Toronto had a couple of chances to stretch its lead to 3-1 earlier in the period.The Leafs pressed to keep their streak going http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/cooper-kupp-jersey , with James van Riemsdyk seeing his shot stopped by Johnson with less than seven minutes to go.The Leafs pushed late with an extra attacker, but the Sabres held on to hand Toronto its first loss on home ice since Jan. 22.”They were pretty persistent,” Kadri said. ”To be honest with you, we played a pretty all-around game and had a lot of offensive opportunities. Their goaltender was good tonight. They’re a resilient group.”Down 1-0 after the visitors grabbed an early lead, the Leafs had a number of chances to get even before Kadri finally broke through with 2:29 remaining in the second.Marleau dislodged the puck from Buffalo defenseman Marco Scandella behind the net on the forecheck before Mitch Marner fed a quick pass in front to Kadri, who beat Johnson to give him back-to-back 30-goal seasons.Kadri, who scored 32 times in 2016-17, has eight goals in the last six games at Air Canada Centre.The Sabres were assessed a high-sticking penalty on the ensuing faceoff – the game’s first infraction of any kind – and Marleau banged home a loose puck in the crease on the power play at 18:42 after Auston Matthews took the initial shot.The Sabres grabbed the lead at 3:23 of the first. Eichel pressured Matthews into a turnover in the corner in the Toronto zone before taking a feed from Girgensons and beating Andersen with a quick move to the forehand.NOTES: The Leafs won 45 games in 1998-99, 1999-00 and 2003-04, and secured 44 victories in both 1992-93 and 2002-03 – seasons that all came before the NHL instituted the shootout to break ties in 2005. Toronto is 7-2 in shootouts in 2017-18.UP NEXTSabres: Host Detroit on Thursday night.Maple Leafs: Host Florida on Wednesday night.—