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WINNIPEG http://www.hurricanesshoponline.com/authentic-jeff-skinner-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, 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 http://www.hurricanesshoponline.com/authentic-justin-williams-jersey ,” 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, 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 Minnesota Wild Hoodies Womens , 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, 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.— Under new coach Ken Hitchcock, the Edmonton Oilers are thinking grit and grind first. That new philosophy will be tested against a strong team playing its best hockey of the season.The Oilers will try to snap the Vegas Golden Knights‘ five-game winning streak on Saturday night at Rogers Place.Since Hitchcock took over for the fired Todd McLellan on Nov. 20, Edmonton has gone 3-1-1 with four games each decided by one goal. That includes Thursday’s 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings.Article continues below ...“That’s the Western Conference,” Hitchcock said. “You’ve got to take points out of close games. It’s a one-goal league and it’s really a one-goal conference and we don’t want to be the first to crack.”Winger Ryan Nugent-Hopkins told the league’s official website that Hitchcock is getting to team to succeed when it seemed as if the season was spinning out of control.“He’s pushing us to be our best Rod Brind'Amour Jersey ,” Nugent-Hopkins said. “It is tough to come in a quarter of the way through the season and try to change things, but he has done a good job of reminding us the things we already know but also pushing us and keeping us honest.”While Edmonton (12-11-2) boasts Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl — tied for the team lead with 13 goals each — the club has also gotten surprising production all season long from Alex Chiasson and more recently from Oscar Klefbom.Chiasson, a journeyman who joined the team just before the start of the season, already has 11 goals in 19 games. Klefbom, a defenseman, registered game-winning goals against the Kings and in overtime of a 1-0 victory over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.“It’s been good timing for my first two goals,” Klefbom said Thursday. “These wins feel better than we win 5-1. It gives us a lot of confidence. We should build off this and focus on the next game here because we can play way better, I think.”Hitchcock believes Klefbom can keep delivering.“I think 25 (minutes a game) to me is the floor and you’re going to see him play more and more,” Hitchcock said.Saturday’s tilt is arguably Edmonton’s biggest test under Hitchcock as Vegas (14-12-1) is reminding fans why it advanced to the Stanley Cup final as an expansion team. The Golden Knights’ surge continued with a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.“We’re just on a bit of a roll here lately so we just have to keep going,” said coach Gerard Gallant, whose team has outscored opponents during the streak by a 23-8 margin.Max Pacioretty has been the key to Vegas’ offense with six goals and three assists during the streak. The former Montreal Canadiens captain, who scored in a 6-3 win over Edmonton on Nov. 18 Womens Scott Darling Jersey , goes for his fourth straight multipoint game.“Patch has been good. He’s hot now, he’s getting a good feel around the net,” Gallant said.Another key is Marc-Andre Fleury, who’s yielded only 11 goals while winning six straight starts — including shutouts of the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks on back-to-back nights last Friday and Saturday.“He’s the key,” Gallant said. “When we got him in the expansion (draft) last year, we knew that he’s a difference maker and he’s a leader of our group.”Fleury is 5-0-0 with a 1.77 goals-against average, a .940 save percentage and a shutout in his last five visits to Edmonton.