WINNIPEG Adidas Chris Tierney Jersey , Manitoba (AP) Down 3-0 after a disastrous opening 20 minutes, there was no flipping of tables or peeling of paint off the walls in the Winnipeg Jets‘ locker room.They instead spent the first intermission calmly trying to figure a way out of that deficit.”We got kicked in the teeth a little bit,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. ”Our goal was just to win the second period and give ourselves a chance.”They did that, and a whole lot more.Wheeler scored on the power play with 4:59 left after Winnipeg roared back from that early deficit to defeat the Nashville Predators 7-4 on Tuesday night and grab a 2-1 lead in their second-round playoff series.”It’s definitely not how you draw up a first period, but nobody panicked,” said Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba, who finished with a goal and an assist.”We just regrouped. It wasn’t really any different in here than if it was a tie game or if we were winning.”We just went out there and played a little bit faster and played with a little bit more confidence.”Dustin Byfuglien had two goals and an assist for Winnipeg, and Paul Stastny added a goal and two assists.Wheeler, who also had an assist, scored the first of two empty-net goals in the final minute, with Brandon Tanev getting the other.Mark Scheifele added two assists to become the first player since Sidney Crosby in 2010 to have five consecutive multi-point games in a postseason. Connor Hellebuyck made 26 stops.Filip Forsberg and P.K. Subban each had a goal and an assist for Nashville, while Mike Fisher and Austin Watson also scored. Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Johansen both added two assists for the Predators, who got 38 saves from Pekka Rinne.”We just stopped playing,” Nashville defenseman Ryan Ellis said. ”You can’t win hockey when you stop playing.”Johansen said the Predators stopped skating after blowing the lead.”We stopped moving our legs,” Johansen said. ”We did a lot of things poorly and they got better. Momentum swings in playoffs, they can be deadly.”Game 4 is Thursday night in Winnipeg before things shift back to Nashville for Game 5 on Saturday.After the Predators surged ahead on goals by Fisher, Subban and Watson in the first period Adidas Gabriel Gagne Jersey , the Jets roared out of the gate in the second to tie it during a frantic three-minute stretch.Stastny got the comeback started at 2:38 when Trouba’s bouncing shot from the point struck his skate in front and ricocheted in off the crossbar and straight out.The veteran center raised his arms in celebration, but play continued for a few seconds before officials blew the sequence dead to check if the puck crossed the line.Wheeler then missed a wide-open net after Rinne’s turnover before getting cleaned out by Watson along the boards.Scheifele came to Wheeler’s defense to nullify what would have been a Winnipeg power play, but the Jets seemed to get a boost from the exchange and made it 3-2 when Byfuglien blasted his second of the playoffs past Rinne at 5:11.Then with the teams still playing 4-on-4, Trouba took a slick pass from Wheeler just 18 seconds later to send the white-clad crowd Bell MTS Place into its third frenzy in quick succession with his second of the postseason.”That was chaos,” Stastny said.Winnipeg imposed its physical will as the period wore on, hitting Nashville’s defense at every opportunity, and the pressure finally paid off with 45 seconds remaining when Patrik Laine passed to Byfuglien for his second of the game.The big defenseman celebrated by removing a glove and dancing – a far cry from the playful punches he threw at teammates after Winnipeg tied Game 2 late in regulation.”You guys only see him on the ice,” Trouba said. ”I see him dance all the time.”But Nashville punched back to even the score 4-4 at 7:40 of the third when Forsberg wheeled across the top of the slot on the power play to beat Hellebuyck with his fifth goal of the postseason shortly after Laine hit the post.Trouba then turned the puck over at the offensive blue line to send Viktor Arvidsson in alone on a breakaway, but Hellebuyck was there with a big glove stop.Winnipeg got its third man advantage of the third with 5:59 remaining when Subban went off for high-sticking after failing to clear the puck twice late in a previous Jets power play. Wheeler scored the winner from a tight angle after Rinne stopped Scheifele from the slot.”Our fans are huge. It’s real, too,” Wheeler said. ”Our crowd noise is from the crowd. It’s not from speakers or music or live bands or whatever.”That’s people making noise and that goes right through your body.”Winnipeg’s Kyle Connor missed on a breakaway that would have sealed it on another man advantage before Nick Bonino hit the post at the other end for Nashville.Wheeler and Tanev then sealed it into an empty net in the final minute.The Jets opened the series with a 4-1 win in Nashville before the Predators picked up a 5-4 double overtime victory in Game 2.The Predators silenced Winnipeg’s fans just 4:53 in Tuesday when Fisher poked a loose puck over the goal line for his first of the playoffs after Hellebuyck couldn’t squeeze Ryan Hartman’s tip of Ekholm’s shot from the sideboards.Wheeler then took an offensive zone tripping penalty, and the Predators capitalized when Subban scored his second of the playoffs, and second in as many games, through Hellebuyck’s legs at 10:06.Watson made it 3-0 with 2:25 left when he took advantage of an awkward Winnipeg change and sniped a shot in off the post for his fifth.Fisher almost added to it late in the period, but his backhand hit the post behind Hellebuyck.”It’s not easy to come back after what we did in the first,” Byfuglien said. ”Everyone just knows you can’t quit – never quit.”Just keep working, you never know what’s going to happen.”— PHILADELPHIA (AP) Claude Giroux and Andrew MacDonald scored in the second period and the Philadelphia Flyers overcame Patrik Laine’s 40th goal of the season in a 2-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday that snapped a five-game losing streak.Laine moved into a tie with Washington’s Alex Ovechkin for the most goals in the league when he scored on a one-timer on the power play at 8:58 of the third period. The 19-year-old Finn has 15 goals and six assists during an 11-game point streak.Petr Mrazek stopped 27 shots for the Flyers Adidas Mikkel Boedker Jersey , bouncing back from a stretch of 18 goals allowed in four games.Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves for the Jets, who saw their four-game winning streak end.BRUINS 7, BLACKHAWKS 4BOSTON (AP) – Brian Gionta and Rick Nash each scored a power-play goal and Boston completed a 6-0-0 homestand.Gionta and Nash got their goals during a double-minor penalty on Chicago’s Patrick Kane.Jake DeBrusk set up two power-play goals by David Krejci. David Pastrnak scored, Noel Acciari had a short-handed tally and Sean Kuraly added an empty-netter for Boston. Tuukka Rask made 23 saves on his 31st birthday.Erik Gustafsson had a goal and two assists, and Jonathan Toews, John Hayden and Matthew Highmore scored for Chicago, which lost for the fifth time in seven games. Highmore’s was his first in the NHL.The Bruins had four power-play goals.LIGHTNING 3, CANADIENS 2, SOTAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Nikita Kucherov scored the deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout, lifting Tampa Bay past Montreal.Tyler Johnson scored his 20th of the season. Kucherov tied it late in the third with his 34th . Louis Domingue made 27 saves and stopped three of four attempts in the shootout.Brayden Point also scored in the shootout for Tampa Bay, his 10th conversion in 15 career shootout attempts.Artturi Lehkonen and Alex Galchenyuk scored for Montreal. Charles Hudon set a career high with two assists. Antti Niemi finished with 32 saves, including all three in overtime.GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, SABRES 1, SOBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Erik Haula scored the decisive shootout goal and Vegas set an NHL record for road victories by an expansion team.Golden Knights defenseman Deryk Engelland forced overtime by scoring the tying goal from a bad angle with 4:14 left in regulation. Marc-Andre Fleury won his 399th career game by stopping 31 shots through overtime.After both teams traded shootout goals, Haula scored in the fifth round by driving up the right side and beating goalie Robin Lehner on the short side.Justin Bailey scored for Buffalo. Lehner finished with 31 saves in the loss.The Pacific Division-leading Golden Knights improved their road record to 20-12-3 Adidas James Van Riemsdyk Jersey , to beat the league record of 19 set by Anaheim in 1993-94, its inaugural season. The Golden Knights, 44-19-5, have already set NHL expansion-team records for most overall wins, home wins, points and longest winning streak – an 8-0 run from Dec. 14 to Jan. 2.AVALANCHE 5, COYOTES 2DENVER (AP) – Blake Comeau and Carl Soderberg each had a goal and an assist in a first-period burst, and Colorado goalie Jonathan Bernier won his ninth straight home game but left in the third period for an undisclosed reason.Tyson Barrie also scored early as Colorado had three goals in the opening 4:22 to take a 3-1 advantage. The Avalanche rode the torrid start to another win at the Pepsi Center, where they’ve gone 14-1-1 since Dec. 29.Tyson Jost and Mikko Rantanen scored in the third to seal the win and help Colorado snap a streak of three straight overtime losses. The team remains in the thick of the playoff chase a season after finishing last in the league.Christian Dvorak and Richard Panik added goals for Arizona, a surging team that’s gone 9-3-2 in over its last 14 games.CAPITALS 2, SHARKS 0SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves for his fifth career shutout and Nicklas Backstrom scored late in the second period to help Washington salvage the final game of its California swing.Washington was outscored 7-1 in losses to Anaheim and Los Angeles to open the trip before a narrow win in San Jose moved the Capitals one point ahead of Pittsburgh for first place in the Metropolitan Division, pending the Penguins‘ game in Toronto.Alex Ovechkin, two goals short of 600 for Washington, was held scoreless for the third straight game. Marc-Edouard Vlasic thwarted one chance for Ovechkin to get goal No. 599 with a strong back check and goalie Martin Jones robbed Ovechkin on a partial breakaway midway through the third period to keep San Jose’s deficit at 1-0.Lars Eller’s empty-net goal sealed the win for the Capitals.BLUES 7, KINGS 2LOS ANGELES (AP) – The struggling St. Louis Blues got goals from seven players and handed Los Angeles its worst defeat of the season.Robert Bortuzzo, Colton Parayko Adidas Christian Folin Jersey , Alex Pietrangelo, Ivan Barbashev, Vladimir Tarasenko, Kyle Brodziak and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Blues, who had lost nine of 10. Jake Allen made 40 saves.The loss left Los Angeles one point back of Colorado for the second Western Conference wild card, and two points ahead of St. Louis. The Kings had not lost by more than four goals all season.Drew Doughty and Dustin Brown scored for the Kings. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves before he was pulled after the second period. Jack Campbell stopped 14 of 17 shots in the third.The Blues, shut out in their previous game against San Jose, jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period.PANTHERS 4, RANGERS 3, SOSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – Vincent Trocheck scored the deciding goal in the shootout to lift Florida to its franchise-record eighth straight home win.Aleksander Barkov also scored in the tiebreaker for the Panthers, who have points in nine straight games. The Panthers pulled two points behind Columbus for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, with three games in hand.Frank Vatrano scored a goal in his Panthers debut, Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist, and Jamie McGinn also scored. Trocheck had two assists. Roberto Luongo made 34 saves.Kevin Hayes, Mika Zibanejad and Mats Zuccarello scored in regulation for the Rangers, who lost their third straight. Ryan Spooner had a pair of assists. Zuccarello also scored to open the shootout. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 32 shots in his 800th career game Adidas Erik Karlsson Jersey , becoming the 15th goalie in NHL history to reach the milestone.MAPLE LEAFS 5, PENGUINS 2TORONTO (AP) – Nazem Kadri scored twice and Toronto snapped a four-game losing streak with its franchise-record 10th straight home win.Kasperi Kapanen, Mitch Marner and Patrick Marleau also scored for the Maple Leafs. Frederik Andersen, appearing in his 57th game this season, stopped 38 shots.Sidney Crosby and Patrick Hornqvist scored for the Penguins, who had won three straight and nine of their last 12.Andersen had a shutout going until Crosby got his 23rd of the season with 3:36 remaining to make it 4-1. It was Crosby’s 26th career goal and 57th point against the Maple Leafs. Hornqvist then tipped Evgeni Malkin’s shot from the point with 2:28 to go. Malking got his 40th assist and 59th point against Toronto.Marleau added an empty-netter with 58 seconds left to close the scoring.DEVILS 3, PREDATORS 2, SONASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Brian Boyle scored in the fifth round of the shootout to lift New Jersey.Boyle beat Nashville goalie Juuse Saros with a quick wrist shot from the slot on the blocker side.New Jersey’s Taylor Hall and Nashville’s Kyle Turris each scored in the fourth round of the tiebreaker after none of the first six shooters could solve the opposing goalie.Sami Vatanen and Boyle had the goals in regulation for New Jersey, winners of two of three. The Devils moved past idle Columbus into the first wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. Keith Kinkaid made 34 saves through overtime and denied four of Nashville’s five attempts in the shootout.Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Johansen had the goals for Nashville, which snapped its franchise-high 10-game winning streak. Saros finished with 25 saves.OILERS 4, WILD 1EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) – Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist to lead Edmonton.Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers, who have won three straight. Cam Talbot stopped 32 shots.Charlie Coyle scored and Devan Dubnyk had 24 saves for the Wild, who snapped a three-game winning streak.McDavid scored twice less than three minutes apart midway through the second period to give Edmonton a 2-0 lead, Draisaitl and Nugent-Hopkins scored about a minute apart late in the third to seal the win.