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EDMONTON Joakim Nordstrom Jersey Womens , Alberta (AP) — Two players mired in major scoring slumps provided plenty of offense for the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.Milan Lucic and Zack Kassian each scored a pair of goals as the Oilers defeated the Buffalo Sabres 7-2.“It feels good as an individual to pop a couple tonight, but the most important thing is that we got the two points in the standings,” said Lucic, who had two goals in the entire calendar year of 2018. “I’m not even going to go into 2018, there is lots to play for in 2019 to get ourselves back in the mix and now it is about stringing a few wins together moving forward.”Kassian was also relieved to see a couple of goals go in.“It is nice to chip in two goals,” he said. “I don’t think I have ever had a stretch where I had gone 40-plus games and had only two goals before. It is nice to score goals, it’s the National Hockey League. Hopefully the floodgates open now.”Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers, who have won two of their last three.Casey Mittelstadt and Evan Rodrigues scored for the struggling Sabres Christopher Tanev Jersey , who have lost three straight.“It seems like our mistakes right now, every single one ends up in our net,” Buffalo captain Jack Eichel said. “You know you’re going to make mistakes over the course of the game and the magnitude of the mistakes are probably too big.“It’s frustrating. It’s a rough patch for our group right now. We have to find a way out of it and we have to stick together.”The Sabres kicked off the flurry of scoring by making good on the first shot, exactly one minute in, when Mittelstadt tipped a shot past Oilers starting goalie Mikko Koskinen.However, Edmonton pulled even on the game’s second shot a minute-and-a-half later when a shot by Kassian ticked off a Sabres’ stick and past Buffalo netminder Carter Hutton.The Oilers also scored on their second shot, 50 seconds later, when Nugent-Hopkins deflected in a shot by Caleb Jones for his 15th of the season.Edmonton made it 3-1 before the game was even five minutes old when Tobias Rieder found Kassian in front and he scored his second of the game and fourth of the season into a wide open net.The Sabres got one back nine minutes into the first after a giveaway led to a goal by Rodrigues.The Oilers added to their total just 24 seconds into the second as McDavid shrugged off a trip for a clear breakaway, scoring his 28th of the season.Edmonton made it 5-2 five minutes into the middle frame when Lucic picked off a pass and scored.Linus Ullmark replaced Hutton in the Buffalo net.Lucic scored his second of the game four minutes into the third Authentic Daniel Sedin Jersey , giving him three goals in his last four games after scoring only two goals in his previous 91 games.The Oilers continued their offensive outburst a couple minutes later when Draisaitl scored his 24th.NOTES: Oilers defenseman Oscar Klefbom (hand) is expected to soon have medical clearance to begin skating and is hopeful he’ll rejoin the team for practices ahead of the all-star break and make his full return after that.UP NEXTSabres: At Calgary on Wednesday.Oilers: At Vancouver on Wednesday. WINNIPEG, Manitoba — What a difference a year makes.Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck was a game-breaker last season, posting 44 wins, a goals-against average of 2.36, a save percentage of .924, and making regular appearances on the highlights of the night on evening sportscasts.But he’s struggling this year, posting nine wins in 18 games, a GAA of 2.98 and a save percentage of .907.Article continues below ...His goals against is 27th among NHL goalies who have played a minimum of 10 games while his save percentage is 25th. Last year, when he was runner up for the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie Womens Derek Dorsett Jersey , he was sixth and seventh, respectively, in those categories.Hellebuyck’s play was spotty in the Jets 4-1 series loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference final last spring and he has continued to let in soft goals this year. He surrendered two Tuesday night in a 4-3 home loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, a game in which the Jets blew a third-period lead for the fifth time this season.After going 42-1-1 when it entered the final frame with a lead last year, the Jets are 7-3-2 in such situations this season.Hellebuyck, to his credit, isn’t shirking responsibility or looking to shift the blame to his defenseman or forwards for blowing assignments.When asked about the goal from fourth-liner Derek Grant that evened the game at 3-3 early in the third period on Tuesday, Hellebuyck said he has trouble believing it got by him.“That one is on me. I’ve got to find a way to stop a weird knuckler. It just sucks because I was having a great game and the guys were playing fantastic in front of me,” he told The Winnipeg Sun.“I could give you a million excuses Auston Matthews Jersey , but that’s all they’re going to be, excuses. So I’m not going to go that route. I’m just going to take responsibility and say, that one is on me.”He’ll hope to turn things around on Thursday night at Bell MTS Place against Chicago. The Blackhawks limp into town on the heels of an 8-3 thumping at the hands of the Golden Knights, their third loss in four games. Winners of three Stanley Cups this decade, the Blackhawks have already fired their long-time coach, Joel Quenneville, this season and sit in sixth place in the ultra-tough Central Division. The Jets are in fourth place.Perhaps symptomatic of their season is their seeming inability to determine their game times. The Blackhawks trailed 3-0 after one period to Vegas, 2-0 in 14 minutes to Florida the game before that and 4-1 to Tampa Bay in less than 15 minutes and 3-0 to Washington in less 30 minutes in the two games before that.Captain Jonathan Toews, a native Winnipegger Connor Brown Jersey , wouldn’t admit his team’s slow starts are part of a bigger problem.“I don’t think what you saw (Tuesday night) was a trend that’s been emerging at all,” he said in a post-game scrum. “It’s just one of those games (where) you’re just flat and everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.“We’ll be (ticked) off about it. We’ll be angry. We’ve got to be better, but we can just focus on the next one.”