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The New York Rangers will go for their fifth straight win and eighth in nine games on Sunday when they host the Winnipeg Jets at Madison Square Garden.The Rangers (9-3-0) will also look to continue a streak thats perhaps even more impressive. Theyve scored at least five goals in four straight and five of six, something that doesnt happen very often in todays NHL.Their 5-2 victory in Boston on Saturday night wasnt as easy at the score indicated. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 37-24 but were victimized by uneven goaltending from Tuukka Rask.We didnt play our best game but we found a way to make a couple of plays and beat one of the goaltenders that had been one of the hottest so far in the league, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said after the Rangers handed Rask his first loss in seven games.The Rangers scored their first two shorthanded goals of the season and another on the power play. Backup goaltender Antti Raanta made 35 saves to give starter Henrik Lundqvist the night off before facing the Jets at home Sunday.Tonight we were able to capitalize on a few chances, Vigneault said. If you analyze the game, the difference was our goaltending was better than theirs and our specialty teams got us a goal on the power play and got us a couple shorthanded looks.The Jets are one of the NHLs youngest teams and, to start the season, one of the busiest. They have played eight games in 13 days as they venture into a stretch of 28 games in 49 days, one that limits practice time for coach Paul Maurice.For a young team, teaching is important, but the lack of off-days means most of the teaching doesnt happen on the ice.The practice time is the thing with a young team, Maurice told the Winnipeg Sun. The details youd like to work on instead of showing them video, but thats our schedule and thats not changing.The next time we have a practice, I dont know, in December, we will tailor how we practice, the load.Along with the schedule, the Jets have also been challenged with injuries.The good news is the Jets have won two straight but their most recent victory -- a 5-3 win against the Red Wings in Detroit on Friday -- came without seven of their regulars. Right winger Joel Armia and center Mathieu Perreault were the latest to go down and missed that game against the Red Wings.When they take the ice against the Rangers on Sunday night, they will do so without defenseman Tyler Myers, center Bryan Little and right winger Drew Stafford. That means a chance for 22-year-old Andrew Copp, a third-round pick in 2013 who was recalled by the team Thursday. 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Wilson hit Schenn from behind during Tuesday nights game in Philadelphia, earning a five-minute major for charging and a game misconduct. He has a phone hearing with the department of player safety, which limits any potential suspension to five or fewer games. WASHINGTON -- One night after shuffling his lines produced an overtime loss at Columbus, coach Barry Trotz and the Washington Capitals return home to face Metropolitan Division rival Pittsburgh at the Verizon Center on Wednesday night.The Capitals (9-4-2) lost for the third time in four games, 2-1, after their apparent go-ahead goal in the third period was erased by a coachs challenge and replay review ruling that T.J. Oshie was offside.Nicklas Backstrom, on a line with Oshie and Marcus Johansson, scored Washingtons lone goal. Center Jay Beagle got the start between Alex Ovechkin and Andre Burakovsky, but Ovechkin was scoreless for the fourth straight game.I thought we played better, we created more chances, Backstrom said. Just a little unlucky we couldnt get two points there.Washington has managed just five goals in four games.Back-up netminder Philipp Grubauer made 25 saves. Braden Holtby (7-3-1, 2.16 goals-against average) gets the start Wednesday night against Penguins. He is 5-7-2 with a 2.71 goals-against average in 14 games vs. Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh (10-3-2) hasnt played since Saturdays win over Toronto. Wednesdays meeting will be the second between the teams following the Penguins 3-2 shootout win on opening night.Penguins coach Mike Sullivan has made some line changes as well, recently reuniting the trio of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel after a brief split.I thought they had a real strong game the other night. They generated a numerous amount of chances, Sullivan told the teams website. Since weve put them back together the coaching staff is very pleased with the looks that theyre getting and how thheyre playing.ddddddddddddSullivan is also pleased with the play of Evgeni Malkin, who has 10 points in his last nine games (6 goals, 4 assists).Hes one of those players in the league that has the ability to be a difference maker, Sullivan said. Hes been very good on the power play. I think hes as dangerous a player as there is in the league off the rush. He can shoot the puck as well as pass the puck.Sidney Crosby has scored goals in seven of the nine games hes played.Tuesdays game started a stretch that will see Washington play three of four games vs. Metropolitan Division foes.Obviously when youre playing within your own division, theyre four-point games, Trotz told the teams website. Theyre extremely important, not that the other games arent. But you get an opportunity within your own division to have an effect on it.Johansson leads the Capitals with seven goals and five assists for 12 points. He is followed by Ovechkin, with seven goals and four assists. Ovechkin has 27 goals and 19 assists in 45 games against the Penguins.Crosby, meanwhile, has totaled 19 goals and 36 assists 38 games vs. Washington, while Malkin has 12 and 35 in 33 games.Sullivan said he would wait until game day to announce if his goaltender will be Matt Murray (4-0, 1.25 GAA) or Marc-Andre Fleury (6-3-2, 3.06) as the Penguins begin a three-game road trip.Penguins defenseman Derrick Pouliot practiced Tuesday for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury Oct. 20 against San Jose and will travel with the team. ' ' '