. Winnipeg had 43 wins in 2014-15, and the Atlanta Thrashers hit the same mark in 2006-07 before the franchise relocated in 2011. Laine was helped down the tunnel to the dressing room about a minute and half into the second period. He wasn't putting any weight on his left foot after blocking a shot by Kings defenseman Alec Martinez that hit him in the lower leg. The injury halted the sophomore forward's 15-game point streak (18 goals, eight assists). That was the longest active streak in the NHL and a record for a teenager. Laine had also entered the game tied for the league goal-scoring lead with Washington's Alexander Ovechkin, but the Capitals star got his 44th of the season and two assists in a 4-3 win over Dallas. Connor scored his 26th goal of the season late in the second. It was Winnipeg's third straight victory. Dustin Brown scored his 23rd goal of the season for the Kings, who were coming off a 4-3 overtime win against Minnesota on Monday. The game featured a battle between backup goalies, each making their third career start. Rookie Eric Comrie stopped 16 shots for the Jets for his second career win. He had one start last season (a victory) and picked up a loss against Florida in December. Campbell made 36 saves for the Kings. The 26-year-old was a first-round pick of Dallas in 2010 (11th overall) and joined the Kings in 2016. His only win in six career games was last month in Las Vegas. Brown and Anze Kopitar played tic-tac-toe on a 2-on-1 to score the game's first goal at 8:42 of the second. The back-and-forth ended when Brown got the pass and easily flipped it into the open side behind Comrie. Winnipeg then had two power plays but couldn't beat Campbell despite some sustained pressure. Kings forward Jeff Carter missed an open part of the net while his team was short-handed. Connor tied it at 17:06 when he deflected Mark Scheifele's pass. Winnipeg held a 23-15 advantage in shots on goal after the middle frame. NOTES: Winnipeg won the season series 2-1. Kings: Visit Colorado on Thursday night. Jets: Host Anaheim on Friday night.---More hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey)
Time: 8:00 PM EDT Venue: Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 5S5 / WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Here's something the Winnipeg Jets have never been able to say this late in a season -- they have the leading goal scorer in the NHL on their roster. Well, okay, tied for being the top sniper. Finnish phenom Patrik Laine scored his 42nd and 43rd goals of the campaign on Monday night in a 4-2 victory over the Dallas Stars, pulling him even with his boyhood hero, Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, who notched his 43rd earlier in the evening against the Philadelphia Flyers. Laine, 19, has the longest point streak by a teenager in NHL history at 15 games (18 goals and 26 points) and has been particularly lethal against the Stars, with 14 goals, including two hat-tricks, in nine career games." It's too bad that we're not playing against Dallas any more this season," Laine told The Winnipeg Sun. "I think I'm just pretty lucky against Dallas. I don't know why." The win solidified the Jets' position in second place in the Central Division with 96 points. But it wasn't all good news for the Jets on Monday. Defenseman Jacob Trouba, who had missed eight weeks with a high ankle sprain before returning to the lineup last week, didn't finish the game after colliding heavily with Stars captain Jamie Benn and possibly suffering a concussion. Trouba's legs buckled after he tried to get up and he had to be helped to the bench by defensemen Tyler Myers, Ben Chiarot and winger Joel Armia. Coach Paul Maurice told The Winnipeg Free Press that Trouba came to Bell MTS Place Tuesday morning feeling "pretty darn good" but that and a couple of bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Tim Hortons." That tells you nothing in these situations. We need to get a few days on him. Better to feel good than not, but it will take a few days before we fully understand the extent of it," Maurice said." He'll see the specialist (Monday) and they'll give us a good idea of where we're at. It's usually two or three days before you find out which direction it goes. Whether it's going to be longer term. Not always, but it's happened in the past." The Kings come to town on the heels of a 4-3 overtime victory against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. Sniper Jeff Carter scored his second goal of the game with less than 34 seconds left in the extra period, ending a contest where the Kings had been up by two goals only to fall behind and then score in the dying seconds after pulling their goaltender." It was a roller-coaster game but for the most part we played really well," Carter said in a postgame interview. "We gave two (goals) back but we stuck with it. At this point in the year, two points is two points." The win moved the Kings up into a tie with the Anaheim Ducks for third place in the Pacific Division with 86 points but because they have more regulation wins, the Ducks are bumped down into one of the wild-card spots in the Western Conference. The Kings have been treading water all month -- winning one, losing one, winning one, losing one -- while in the midst of a dogfight with the Ducks, Calgary Flames, Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche.
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