short-handed breakaway.Lindholm had three assists, while Gaudreau added two.After Paquette scored at 16:06 of the first, Kucherov made it 3-0 just 1:13 later.Giordano cut the Flames’ deficit to 3-1 during a 5-on-3 power play 47 seconds after Kucherov’s goal. The 35-year old became the 10th defenseman

WINNIPEG Dmitry Kulikov Jersey , Manitoba (AP) Roman Josi had this one circled on his calendar.Hard to imagine the Predators defenseman could have played much better.Josi had five assists, Craig Smith scored twice and Ryan Hartman redirected in the winning goal during his Nashville debut, sending the streaking Predators to a 6-5 victory over the Winnipeg Jets in their Central Division showdown Tuesday night.”We knew before the game it’s a huge game,” Josi said. ”We marked it as probably the most important game up to this point in the season.”Hartman, acquired in a trade with Chicago at Monday’s deadline, gave the defending Western Conference champions their first lead with a minute left when he tapped in a feed from Josi.”I didn’t really have to do much for it, you know,” Hartman said of his ninth goal this season. ”(Josi) put that right on my tape.”Kyle Turris, Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Johansen also scored as Nashville won its fifth straight, padding its division lead to four points over the Jets. Josi extended his point streak to five games (one goal Youth Dustin Byfuglien Jersey , 11 assists).”We know how well they’re playing this year and how good of a team they are,” Josi said. ”It was a great test for us.”Josi praised Hartman for his all-around effort.”I thought even before he scored that goal he was really good,” Josi said. ”He was hard on the forecheck. He made a lot of good plays, had a lot of shots. I thought he played great and obviously he topped it off with the game-winner.”Mark Scheifele scored twice and new Winnipeg forward Paul Stastny had a goal and an assist. Matt Hendricks and Nikolaj Ehlers also scored.Stastny was obtained Monday in a trade with St. Louis.”It was good to get it out of the way,” he said after scoring his 13th goal this season and first with his new club. ”This afternoon I didn’t sleep a wink. I was just more anxious, nerves and excitement.”Ehlers added one assist and Patrik Laine had two.Pekka Rinne stopped 34 shots for the Predators, who opened a four-game road trip. Rinne improved to 14-1-1 in his last 16 starts.Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves for Winnipeg.”It was last shot wins,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said. ”I don’t think they got any more quality offense in the third.”After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for seven goals in the second, with Winnipeg taking a 4-3 lead into the third.The second period featured five goals in just under five minutes.Hendricks started it off at 2:45 when his shot from the slot went past Rinne. Smith got the equalizer six minutes later http://www.jetsshoppro.com/authentic-jacob-trouba-jersey , but then Scheifele triggered the flurry of goals at both ends of the ice.The top-line center scored his 20th of the season off a slick pass from Jack Roslovic at 12:41. Smith got his second when Stastny sent him a pass from the side of the net out front less than two minutes later for a 3-1 lead.Blake Wheeler assisted on the second goal, extending his point streak to nine games with four goals and 11 assists during that stretch.Turris replied at 15:07 to cut the lead 3-2, and Ekholm scored with one second left on a power play after the Jets had unsuccessfully challenged Turris’ goal for offside. Winnipeg was dinged with a delay-of-game penalty for the failed challenge.Ehlers finished the period’s scoring with his 25th of the season at 17:39.Stastny scored 10 minutes into the third for a 5-3 lead, but Smith scored 55 seconds later and Johansen tied it for Nashville at 13:56.”The positivity in this room, even though you’re down a goal, down two goals, the guys know there’s enough tools in here to score plenty of goals and win at any given time,” Hartman said.NOTES: Viktor Arvidsson had two assists for the Predators. … Laine got assists on the goals by Stastny and Ehlers, pushing his point streak to six games. … Stastny won 14 of 19 faceoffs. ”He’s a cagey guy,” Scheifele said. ”He knows the areas to go to to create offense Josh Morrissey Jersey , and in the (defensive) zone the areas to be.” … Jets defenseman Joe Morrow, just acquired from Montreal, was on the ice after veteran Toby Enstrom was scratched.UP NEXTPredators: Play in Edmonton on Thursday.Jets: Host the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.— TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The high-powered Tampa Bay Lightning just keep on rolling.NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists, Brayden Point added a goal and two assists, and the Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 6-3 on Tuesday night.Kucherov has 88 points, including seven over his last two games after going a pair of games without getting on the scoresheet.“He has that ability to find guys even when I don’t think guys know they’re open,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.Kucherov has a career-high 63 assists. He stopped a 10-game goal drought with a pair Sunday in a 5-2 win at Florida.“Good to see we got two games with ‘W’s,'” Kucherov said. “That’s better.”Kucherov and Point (72) are the second pair of Tampa Bay teammates to reach 70 points in 57 team games. Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier did it in 2006-07.Cedric Paquette, Anthony Cirelli http://www.jetsshoppro.com/authentic-kyle-connor-jersey , Yanni Gourde and Steven Stamkos also scored for the NHL-leading Lightning, who are 5-0-2 over the last seven games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.“We’ve got the top guys going and we’re getting scoring from the other guys as well,” Stamkos said. “So, that’s a pretty dangerous combination to have.”Calgary, 1-3-1 in its last five games, got two goals from Sean Monahan. Mark Giordano had the other Flames goal, and David Rittich stopped 21 shots.“Pretty disappointing with letting that one go the way it did,” Giordano said. “Our details weren’t where they needed to be. We’ve got to be a lot sharper and its starts with me and the leaders and the older guys and it trickles down.”Monahan didn’t have a goal in his previous five games. Teammates Matthew Tkachuk (eight) and Johnny Gaudreau (six) remain in goal droughts. The trio has combined to score 82 goals.Point scored his career-high 33rd goal to open the scoring 11:54 into the game.Point’s goal came shortly after Vasilevskiy made a save on Elias Lindholm’s short-handed breakaway.Lindholm had three assists, while Gaudreau added two.After Paquette scored at 16:06 of the first, Kucherov made it 3-0 just 1:13 later.Giordano cut the Flames’ deficit to 3-1 during a 5-on-3 power play 47 seconds after Kucherov’s goal. The 35-year old became the 10th defenseman in NHL history to have 55 or more points at age 35 or older.Calgary pulled within 3-2 on Monahan’s goal at 9:13 of the second Womens Mark Scheifele Jersey , but Tampa Bay responded 57 seconds later when Cirelli scored.“It’s a huge shift,” Giordano said. “It’s a big part of the game. Obviously you want to grab momentum when you’re back in it.”Gourde put Tampa Bay ahead 5-2 later in the second.Stamkos reached 30 goals for the sixth time during a third-period power play.Monahan had a power-play goal late in the third.NOTES: Neither Gaudreau nor Tkachuk had a shot on goal. Monahan scored on both of his shots. … The Lightning sent rookie RW Mathieu Joseph, who has 13 goals, to Syracuse of the AHL to make room on the roster for minor league D Jan Rutta. Rutta was recalled because D Erik Cernak was scratched due to an undisclosed lower-body injury. … Tkachuk played in his 200th NHL game.UP NEXTFlames: Play at Florida on Thursday.Lightning: Hosts Dallas on Thursday.