The Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets are set to host the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday, with both teams eager for a victory -- though for different reasons.

The Winnipeg Jets continued their season long homestand on Tuesday night at the Canada Life Centre and absolutely crushed the Vancouver Canucks by a score of 6-1. Connor Hellebuyck picked up his league leading 27th win of the year on a cold winter night in Winnipeg.

and Vancouver has been nearly as impressive on the highway. Jets (Home) Canucks (Road) Goals against per game 2.17 (2nd) 2.52 (3rd) 5-on-5 goals against per 60 1.43 (2nd) 1.97 (3rd) Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck is also the betting favorite in the Vezina T ...

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Hellebuyck will be in the home net Tuesday against Vancouver, Ken Wiebe of The Winnipeg Free Press relays. Hellebuyck stopped all 22 shots that he faced in a 3-0 win over the Avalanche on Saturday, his sixth shutout of the campaign.

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.

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.

Thompson wants kids to turn on the 4 Nations Face-Off and be dazzled by the play in net by the Americans. He hopes they idolize and emulate Hellebuyck and Oettinger and Swayman, that they see the superheroes they want to be. It is, after all, his best advertising.

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.

The Canucks' form continues to swing wildly from game to game and the Jets took advantage with a Kyle Connor hat trick in the first period.

Kyle Connor was glad he and the Winnipeg Jets got some puck luck on Tuesday. Connor scored a natural hat trick in the first period to spark the Jets to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.