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TAMPA Aaron Donald Jersey Elite , Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning found their offense, and in a big way.Victor Hedman, Cedric Paquette and Yanni Gourde had first-period goals, and the Lightning beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 8-2 Saturday night.Brayden Point scored in both the second and third periods, and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 30 saves for Tampa Bay. Alex Killorn, Nikita Kucherov and J.T. Miller had the other Lightning goals.Tampa Bay, which led the NHL in goals last season, had scored just twice over 125 minutes in its first two games. The Lightning were held scoreless during the final 159:27 of the 2018 Eastern Conference Final by eventual Stanley Cup champion Washington.“Whether you get one or you get eight, your goal is to win the game,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “But I’m glad we only gave up two.”Columbus got goals from Josh Anderson and Oliver Bjorkstrand, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots.Columbus coach John Tortorella has been rotating his goaltending between Bobrovsky and Joonas Korpisalo.As the deficit mounded, Tortorella “had no thought about taking” Bobrovsky out.Hedman and Paquette scored before Gourde put the Lightning up 3-0 late in the first and stopped an 0 for 10 season-opening Tampa Bay power-play slide.“We had a strong presence in front of the net,” Hedman said. “A lot of the goals were scored around the crease.”Anderson, who beat Tampa Bay’s Dan Girardi to wipeout a potential icing and soon after scored http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/aaron-donald-jersey , and Bjorkstrand cut the Blue Jackets deficit to one in the second.Point’s goal with 44.6 seconds left in the second made it 4-2.“Just a kick in the teeth, that fourth goal as far as the bad bounce (off the end boards),” Tortorella said. “We found our game, had them on their heels a bit.”Point and Alex Killorn both had a power-play goal during a four-goal third-period that also saw Kucherov get his first goal.Miller got Tampa Bay’s fourth power-play goal with two-tenths of second left.“We really had them on the ropes in the second,” Columbus left wing Nick Foligno said. “We don’t handle momentum swings well when they’re going against us.”NOTES: Julian Green was among a group of U.S. Men’s National Soccer team players in attendance. They were watching both teams play soccer during a pregame workout when the Blue Jackets had their ball get stuck on an overhanging vent. After players attempted to dislodge it with a pole, a stadium worker retrieved the ball using a portable lift. … Columbus D Seth Jones, who sprained his knee during the preseason, could be back in two to four weeks. … Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos got his first assist this season but has no goals over 15 games, dating to last season.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Host Philadelphia Thursday night.Lightning: Play the fourth of a five-game homestand Tuesday night against Carolina. WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The NHL can never be accused of ignoring one of the rarest issues in hockey today — cross-Atlantic jet lag.The Winnipeg Jets host the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night, their first game since finishing a two-game series against the Florida Panthers in Helsinki, Finland, one week ago.The Panthers, meanwhile Authentic Todd Gurley Jersey , had six days off after splitting the two games before hosting the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.Article continues below ...Despite playing below expectations for the first month of the season, the Jets still sit fourth in the ultra-tough Central Division with 17 points, tied with the Avalanche.They’re hoping right winger Patrik Laine has adjusted his internal clock without losing his sniper’s touch from Helsinki, where he scored a hat trick in the first game — a Jets victory — and added one more in the second, a loss.The young Finn hasn’t done enough, however, to merit a promotion from the third line, where he’ll remain for the time being with center Adam Lowry and left winger Brandon Tanev. He remains on the first power-play unit.Jets coach Paul Maurice said Laine handled the whirlwind trip to his homeland amazingly well, answering every interviewer’s question — often in two languages — and signing countless autographs and posing for an endless stream of selfies. How he would perform in the pressure-packed environment in front of friends and family was a big question, especially with how he played in the days — weeks, really — up to the trip, fumbling the puck in key situations, failing to get the puck out of his own end and misfiring when he did get scoring chances.“Shooters need confidence — so his practices look different now than they did prior to (Helsinki),” Maurice told The Winnipeg Free Press. “He’s moving more powerfully. He’s adapted himself to the two guys he’s playing with. I’m not sure I have that long-term Todd Gurley Jersey Elite , but it’s the right direction for his personal game.“A little harder, more direct. He’s shooting the puck a little harder. He’s got more confidence carrying it up the ice. So, we like what the boost is. You can do all the things to get a guy some confidence. But it doesn’t work nearly as well as a goal.”The Avalanche come to town on the heels of a 4-1 loss at the Pepsi Center to the Central-leading Nashville Predators, which included a pair of disallowed goals by the home team. It was their fourth consecutive defeat following a winless three-game road trip.“I’ve got to try to find the review, the replays that they have,” coach Jared Bednar told The Denver Post after the game. “The two goals that got called back were just an aspect of our lack of execution.”The Avalanche have lost five of their last six after bursting out of the gate with a 6-1-2 record. Bednar said if his troops are going to turn their fortunes around, they’ll need to limit their communication breakdowns, particularly in their own end of the ice.“I think it’s something that mature teams do real well,” he said, “and we’re just not quite there yet in that regard.”