Connor records 6th career hat trick in a 6-1 victory

Then, flipping the script, Connor scored his second of the game with 6:59 remaining in the frame - this one coming off a rebound from a Pionk point shot. Vilardi picked up the secondary assist - his second of the game - on Connor's 25th of the season.

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Gabriel Vilardi with a hat trick of assists as he matches his career high in points with 41. He’s at 19G 22A for 41 points in 45 games. He matched his total he set with the Kings in 2022-23 in 63 games but gets there in 18 fewer contests.

After breaking a four-game losing streak with a 3-0 shutout over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, the Vancouver Canucks rolled into Winnipeg to face the league-leading Jets, who were coming off a 3-0 shutout of their own against the Colorado Avalanche.

The Winnipeg Jets just keep soaring. The Jets became the first NHL team to 30 wins with a 6-1 thrashing of the visiting Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. Winnipeg will look to continue its winning ways when it hosts the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night.

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Looking to build off of Saturday’s 3-0 win over the Avalanche, the Winnipeg Jets welcomed the Vancouver Canucks to town on Tuesday evening and ran away with this game early. Kyle Connor scored a hat trick in the first period as the Jets took home a 6-1 win, as they are the first team in the NHL to reach the 30-win mark this season.

Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in the first period and went on to add an assist as the Winnipeg Jets crushed the visiting Vancouver Canucks 6-1 on Tuesday. Neal Pionk, Nino Niederreiter and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kent Johnson and Kirill Marchenko scored in the shootout as the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Tuesday night.