per game at the Shark Tank with two goals and four assists in six career meetings.“A good sign tonight was just how many penalties we drew. I think that shows just how well we possess the puck,” Tavares said of the win over the Kings. However, Toronto is 1-for-11 with the man advantage during its losi

WINNIPEG Vancouver Canucks T-Shirts Authentic , Manitoba (AP) Patrik Laine promised he’ll do better next time. At least until he gets the better of Alex Ovechkin.Laine scored twice to extend his point streak to 15 games and tie Ovechkin for the NHL goal lead, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Sunday night to match the franchise wins record at 43.The second-year sniper has 43 goals, matching the total from Ovechkin, the Washington star and Laine’s boyhood favorite. Laine’s point streak is the longest active run in the NHL and adds to his league record for the longest point streak by a teenager. The streak includes 18 goals and eight assists.”Like I’ve said before, maybe a week ago, I don’t want to be tied. I want to take the solo lead and I’ll try to do that next game,” Laine said.Ben Chiarot also scored and Blake Wheeler added an empty-netter for Winnipeg.Mattias Janmark and Jamie Benn each scored for Dallas.”Laine did Laine things again against us,” Benn said.Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves for the Jets in the second game of a six-game homestand. The last time they reached 43 wins was 2014-15, when they made the playoffs for the first time since relocating to Winnipeg from Atlanta.The victory also gave Winnipeg a sweep over the Stars in the teams’ four-game season series.Ben Bishop stopped three shots before leaving the game with 9:49 remaining in the first period after whipping out his left glove to snag Bryan Little’s shot. Playing his second game after missing five with a knee injury, Bishop stood in the crease bent over before skating off with what the team reported as a lower-body injury.Kari Lehtonen replaced Bishop and made 17 saves for the visitors, who are 0-3-2 on their six-game road trip.Winnipeg led 1-0 after the first period and 3-2 after the second.With Benn in the penalty box for tripping, Laine scored with 0.4 seconds remaining in the first period following a supreme effort by Wheeler. After losing an edge and falling down near the bottom of the right circle, Wheeler swept a one-handed pass through the feet of Stars defenseman Dan Hamhuis to Laine out in front, and he put a high shot past Lehtonen.It was Laine’s 19th power-play goal, tops in the NHL. Wheeler picked up his 61st assist of the season Vancouver Canucks Hoodies Authentic , also a league high.”It doesn’t matter if he is standing or sitting, he’s going to find me,” Laine said of Wheeler. ”I think it came from the (defenseman’s) skate, that’s what I saw. But, like I said, he fell down and still found me. He’s a special player, he can find those passes.”NOTES: Jets C Adam Lowry picked up an assist on Chiarot’s goal in his first game back after sitting 19 with an upper-body injury. Mark Scheifele and Tobias Enstrom also returned from injury. Scheifele got a helper on Wheeler’s goal.UP NEXTStars: Host Boston on Wednesday night.Jets: Host Los Angeles on Tuesday night.— At 39 years old, Joe Thornton can still produce for the San Jose Sharks — especially when facing the Toronto Maple Leafs.Coming off another career milestone, “Jumbo Joe” looks to lead the Sharks to their sixth straight home win over the Maple Leafs on Thursday night at SAP Center.After Joe Pavelski scored his second goal of the game late in the third period on Tuesday, Thornton posted his 400th career tally 13 seconds later to lift San Jose (10-6-3) to a 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators. The top overall pick by the Boston Bruins in the 1997 NHL Draft is the seventh player in history with 1,500 games played, 400 goals and 1,000 assists.Article continues below ...“I just want to play and have fun, and that’s what you saw tonight,” Thornton said.Thornton Vancouver Canucks Hats Authentic , who sat out nine games last month with swelling in his surgically repaired right knee, is rounding into form with three goals in his last six contests.“He created stuff tonight all night. He was good tonight. I thought he was even better than he was last game,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said.While with San Jose, Thornton hasn’t faced Toronto as often as when he was with Boston. But when playing against the Maple Leafs at SAP Center, the veteran center is averaging nearly two points per game. He’s logged multiple points in five of eight contests, totaling a goal and 14 assists.Pavelski, meanwhile, has five points (three goals, two assists) through the first two games of the Sharks’ six-game homestand and has thrived on home ice versus Toronto. In seven career matchups, San Jose’s captain has seven goals, helping the club win each time.The Sharks have outscored the Maple Leafs 22-6, while winning the last five meetings in Northern California.Toronto (12-6-0) opened the California portion of a four-game road trip with a 5-1 rout of the league-worst Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday. Nazem Kadri scored two power-play goals and John Tavares added a man-advantage marker as the Maple Leafs improved to 7-1-0 away from home.“From start to finish, that was a pretty textbook road win,” said Tavares, who has a team-best 11 goals and is tied with Mitch Marner for second on the club with 22 points Custom Vancouver Canucks Jerseys , trailing only defenseman Morgan Rielly (23 points).Tavares — the top player from last summer’s free-agent class — has 16 points (nine goals, seven assists) on the road this season, including five multi-point games. He’s also averaging a point per game at the Shark Tank with two goals and four assists in six career meetings.“A good sign tonight was just how many penalties we drew. I think that shows just how well we possess the puck,” Tavares said of the win over the Kings. However, Toronto is 1-for-11 with the man advantage during its losing streak in Silicon Valley.Frederik Andersen has been a wall in net recently for the Leafs, allowing just three goals on 130 shots faced while winning each of his last four starts. However, the native of Denmark has never won in San Jose, posting an 0-6-0 record with a 2.95 goals-against average in seven games. Martin Jones, a winner in eight of his last 10 starts for the Sharks, is 5-0-1 with a 1.78 GAA and a shutout in his career against Toronto while with San Jose.According to the Bay Area News Group, Sharks winger Tomas Hertl may miss Thursday’s game with a lower-body injury. Hertl, who has five goals and 11 assists in 16 contests, missed three games with a head injury before returning in Monday’s 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames.