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NEW YORK — The Winnipeg Jets will be the road team on Sunday night Authentic Josh Rosen Jersey , but they’ll be better-rested than the New York Rangers. And probably in a better mood, too.The Jets will look to lock up a winning record on their Eastern Conference road trip Sunday night when they visit the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.Both teams will be playing the second game of a back-to-back set. The Jets squandered a two-goal lead in the final five minutes of regulation before Mark Scheifele scored his second goal of the night 16.3 seconds left in overtime to lift Winnipeg past the host New Jersey Devils 4-3. The visiting Rangers traveled home immediately after falling to the Montreal Canadiens 5-2.Article continues below ...The chaotic victory could provide more momentum for the Jets (15-8-2), who have won two straight and three of their last four. Winnipeg went up 3-1 on goals by Josh Morrissey and Andrew Copp within a three-minute span just beyond the midway point of the third period before Jesper Bratt and Taylor Hall tied the score for the Devils.“Lots of emotion on our bench,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said after the win. “They overcame a lot of obstacles. I really liked the way we played in the third. I thought that was our best period.”At this point, the Rangers (13-12-2) are just looking to enjoy one good period as they try to snap out of a slump that threatens to undo the progress they made during a surprising first month of the season.New York has lost four of five, a stretch in which it has been outscored 19-9 http://www.arizonacardinalsteamonline.com/josh-rosen-jersey , suffered two shutout defeats and blown a two-goal lead to the defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals in another loss. On Saturday, the Rangers fell behind 4-0 fewer than six minutes into the second period.“We’re not in the greatest mindset right now,” Rangers rookie coach David Quinn told reporters after Saturday’s game. “We’re not playing with a lot of confidence, and for good reason.”Backups Laurent Brossoit and Alexander Georgiev started in net for the Jets and Rangers, respectively, which means No. 1 goalies Connor Hellebuyck and Henrik Lundqvist are likely start Sunday night.Hellebuyck last started Thursday when he had 26 saves as the Jets defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 6-5. Lundqvist also hasn’t played since Thursday when he made 31 saves in the Rangers’ 3-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators.Hellebuyck is 1-2-0 in three career appearances against the Rangers. Lundqvist is 14-10-7 in 32 games against the Jets/Atlanta Thrashers franchise.Winnipeg concludes its road trip Tuesday when it visits the New York Islanders as Barclays Center. The game against the Jets is the final one before the “bye week” for the Rangers Josh Rosen Jersey Limited , who aren’t scheduled to play again until visiting the Florida Panthers next Saturday night. OTTAWA — To paraphrase Ottawa Senators coach Guy Boucher, some players knock on the door that leads to the NHL and others kick it down.Drake Batherson kicked it down.The Senators planned to give Batherson at least half of a season — if not the entire 2018-19 campaign – in the American Hockey League to prepare for the final step on the ladder. But in his first 13 games as a pro, the 20-year-old, 2017 fourth-round draft pick indicated he’s ready for it now.Article continues below ...Along with seven goals and 13 assists to lead the AHL in scoring, Batherson was coming off a six-point night that earned him the league’s player of the week nod when the Senators decided to give him a promotion.Batherson will make his NHL debut with the Senators (7-8-3) when they host the Detroit Red Wings (8-8-2) at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday night.“He wasn’t just the best rookie in the American league, he was arguably the best player in the American league Authentic Julio Jones Jersey , and with very little time to do so,” said Boucher. “I liked him in camp and I thought he had a chance to make our team, but we saw that he wasn’t quite ready. You want to give guys the time they need to develop.”Batherson will be given a chance to succeed at this level as Boucher has him on a line with Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel, two of the club’s top scoring forwards.“Every day was about just trying to come in and be a consistent player, working on my game,” Batherson said of the AHL. “You get a lot of skill development down there and it helped me a lot.”Craig Anderson will be making his 17th appearance in the Senators’ net as the team tries to rebound from a 5-1 loss Sunday in Florida. Veteran center Zack Smith should help an Ottawa team that has struggled all season defensively as he returns from missing nine games with a facial bone fracture.After a sluggish start Julio Jones Jersey Limited , the Red Wings have been on a tear, winning four straight and seven of their last eight games. The run has been unexpected of a team that, like Ottawa, is in rebuild mode.“It’s not that we’ve come out of any of these games thinking that, ‘Wow, we played our best http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/julio-jones-jersey ,'” veteran center Frans Nielsen told the Detroit Free Press. “But we’ve been able to find ways to put ourselves back in the standings, and it’s been fun.”The Red Wings had a tough schedule early on but things have lightened up on that front. Six different players accounted for an unanswered scoring spree through the first 47 minutes when they dumped Arizona 6-1 on Tuesday in Detroit.“When we started the way we started, it was paramount that we took care of business at home,” coach Jeff Blashill told the Free Press. “Good for our guys to have done that and dug us out of a bit of a hole.”