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WINNIPEG Ryan Dzingel Jersey , Manitoba (AP) Dion Phaneuf is fitting in nicely with the Los Angeles Kings.The veteran defenseman scored on the power play for his third goal in four games with Los Angeles, helping the Kings cap a seven-game road trip with a 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.Alec Martinez also scored with the man advantage and Dustin Brown’s goal late in the third period stood as the winner. Torrey Mitchell had the other goal for the Kings, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 30 shots.Article continues below ...”Why are we calling them (Martinez and Phaneuf) the second unit?” Los Angeles coach John Stevens quipped. ”They were the first unit tonight.”I thought they were terrific. They had a game plan. They moved the puck quickly and they came up with a lot of loose pucks. Dion’s been a good fit there. He wants to shoot the puck all the time.”Anze Kopitar picked up an assist on Brown’s goal, giving him his 800th NHL point in his 900th career game.Patrik Laine scored on the power play with 49 seconds left to trim the deficit for Winnipeg, which had won three in a row. Blake Wheeler and Dustin Byfuglien had the other Jets goals, and Laine added an assist.Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves for the Jets, who completed a 6-3-1 homestand – their longest of the season. Winnipeg has given up four power-play goals in the past two games.”Penalty kill is kind of leaking oil right now,” Wheeler said.”Just kind of wrong penalties at the wrong time. They capitalized, stole some momentum. Still 2-2 going into the third at home, I don’t think we hate that spot. Just weren’t able to get one early enough to go in the third.”It was the third consecutive win for the Kings, who were coming off a 3-1 victory at Chicago the night before and went 4-3 on their trip.Los Angeles is tied with Anaheim for third place in the Pacific Division with 71 points Womens Tom Pyatt Jersey , three behind second-place San Jose.”We knew we had a chance to get into the playoff picture here tonight so we were pretty determined to do that and we just did a great job,” said Kuemper, who won his fifth straight start.The Jets went on an early two-man advantage and made it count when Wheeler fired a high shot over Kuemper’s glove at 5:46 of the first period.Wheeler also had an assist in running his point streak to six games, with three goals and eight assists during that span. He has 14 points in his last 10 games.The Kings started off the second period on a high note with their own power-play goal. Martinez’s point shot went through traffic for his sixth of the season at 1:49.Phaneuf then added his sixth goal of the season – and third since being traded to the Kings from Ottawa last week – at 17:05 with Jets forward Nic Petan in the penalty box for slashing.”They had some really good screeners in front of me,” said Hellebuyck, who was making his ninth straight start. ”I found myself up high a lot.”Give them credit, they’re a good team. They’ve won a couple of Stanley Cups for that reason: They know how to screen a goaltender. It makes a world of difference.”Byfuglien’s fourth goal of the season tied it 2-all with 65 seconds left in the second.Los Angeles took a 3-2 lead when Mitchell scored his second goal in two games by picking up a bouncing puck in front of Winnipeg’s crease and finding some open net at 6:17.Byfuglien took a high-sticking penalty with 6:14 left in the third, and Brown scored eight seconds after it expired. Kopitar’s assist gave him 19 points in his last 16 games (seven goals, 12 assists).NOTES: Both teams went 2 for 5 on the power play. … Laine has scored an NHL-leading 16 of his 27 goals on the power play.UP NEXTKings: Host the Dallas Stars on Thursday.Jets: Begin a two-game road trip Friday in St. Louis.— ST. LOUIS — To say the St. Louis Blues are limping into their home game against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night would be an understatement.The Blues are limping figuratively with a 9-13-3 record, the franchise’s worst start since beginning the 2006-07 season with a 7-15-3 mark.And now they are limping literally after announcing that captain Alex Pietrangelo was one of three players placed on injured reserve.Article continues below ...Pietrangelo (hand), forward Robby Fabbri (shoulder) and defenseman Carl Gunnarsson (upper body) were all put on IR. Forward Alexander Steen (concussion) is day to day.Pietrangelo http://www.senatorsshoponline.com/authentic-zack-smith-jersey , the Blues’ top defenseman, hurt the hand during the team’s 3-2 overtime win at Colorado on Friday. He is likely to have surgery.“Alex Pietrangelo sustained a hand injury, he’s been placed on long-term (injured reserve), so he’ll be re-evaluated around Christmas,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong told NHL.com on Monday afternoon before practice. “He’s talking to the doctors now. There’s the likelihood that he’ll have some surgery, yes.”Blues interim coach Craig Berube said it was a huge loss.“Logs a lot of minutes, plays in a lot of situations, captain of your team,” Berube told NHL.com. “It’s tough, but there are other players who are going to get an opportunities here, and they have to step up. We all have to play well. The team has to play well.“When you have injuries Max Jones Jersey Womens , it’s very important that we stick together as a team and play well as a team.”Fabbri was injured in a 6-1 loss at Arizona on Saturday. It is the latest in a string of injuries that have sidelined him for 122 of the past 137 games, including two torn ACLs.“Robby Fabbri separated his shoulder. He’s been put on IR and will be evaluated around Christmas,” Armstrong told NHL.com. “His is a shoulder injury; I don’t think it’s a surgical candidate. I’m actually sure it’s not or else we’d be a lot longer than Christmas.”The Blues recalled forwards Jordan Nolan and Jordan Kyrou and defenseman Chris Butler from San Antonio of the American Hockey League.Wednesday’s game at Enterprise Center will be the first of three this season between the Blues and the Oilers. St. Louis took two of three last season from Edmonton.The Oilers are coming off of a 4-1 loss at Dallas on Monday that snapped a three-game winning streak.Left winger Jujhar Khaira scored the Oilers’ goal, as the team played with just 11 forwards after captain and leading scorer Connor McDavid and Ryan Spooner were scratched.“You’ve got to move on,” Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock told NHL.com. “You’ve got to be able to win games if you’re missing one guy. It’s not the end of the world.”The game will be a homecoming of sorts for Hitchcock, who coached the Blues from 2011 to 2017. Hitchcock had a 248-124-41 record leading the Blues.“It was a hell of a six-year run,” he told NHL.com. “We were in a conference and a division that was strong. We were sitting there with Nashville and Chicago and then you’ve got LA, who was on a roll, and we were right in the mix with those teams.”