VANCOUVER Adidas Matt Read Jersey , British Columbia (AP) — It took 18 games for Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine to finally break loose.After having scored just one even-strength goal heading into Monday’s game, Laine recorded a hat trick and led Winnipeg to a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks.Laine put the puck into an empty net with less than two minutes to go seal the victory.“I’m not going to say it out loud but obviously it’s bothering because you’re not producing five-on-five,” the 20-year-old Laine said.“But when you stay patient and work hard you are going to get rewarded like I got rewarded tonight. … And from now on, if I don’t score in the next 20 (games) 5-on-5, I am not going to lose it. I am just going to stay patient and keep working hard.”Bryan Little, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor also scored for Winnipeg.“He is really hard on himself and wants to get better at every aspect of his game,” Little said of Laine. “For him it’s just staying positive and not being so hard on himself.”Elias Pettersson, Tyler Motte and Nikolay Goldobin scored for Vancouver, which lost its sixth straight game.Connor Hellebuyck stopped 22 shots for the Jets. Jacob Markstrom made 43 saves for the Canucks.The Jets had 49 shots on goal, the most allowed by Vancouver in a game this season.But Vancouver head coach Travis Green said he still saw positives in his team’s performance, especially after going down 4-1 in the second period.“We made a game of it,” Green said. “I didn’t expect them to just lay down. We’ve talked about how we want to play. And part of how we want to play is when it’s hard. When you’re up against it a little bit, you’ve got to dig deep and play.”Winnipeg opened the scoring just over a minute in after Markstrom tried to clear the puck along the boards. Little collected the puck at the point and hammered it in as Markstrom slid back into his net.The Canucks responded with a power-play goal after Dustin Byfuglien was called for slashing.Goldobin sent a behind-the-back pass to defenseman Ben Hutton Adidas Matt Hendricks Jersey , who fed Pettersson. The Canucks’ rookie fired a shot past Hellebuyck, tying the game.Pettersson now has 12 goals in his first 17 NHL games.Markstrom faced a barrage of 23 shots in the opening period, including a hard wrister from Nikolaj Ehlers that went off his blocker.The rebound popped out to the side and Scheifele poked it in to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.Winnipeg added another first-period goal when Connor scored on a power play. Connor’s point streak (four goals, three assists) is at five games.Midway through the second period, Pettersson and Hutton collided while trying to clear the puck from in front of the Vancouver net.Laine collected the puck and got off a quick wrist shot that sailed past Markstrom to make it 4-1 for the Jets.Motte got one back for the Canucks, scoring his second goal of the year on a short-handed breakaway.It was Goldobin who brought Vancouver within one. The right-winger slid the puck across the crease, forcing Hellebuyck to sprawl, then tucked it into the net behind the netminder’s skate.NOTES: Laine registered two goals in the third period for the sixth three-goal game of his career.UP NEXTJets: At Calgary on Wednesday.Canucks: At Anaheim on Wednesday. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — T.J. Oshie got the Washington Capitals going Thursday night, and Alex Ovechkin helped poured it on from there.Ovechkin scored his NHL-leading 39th goal, Oshie had two goals and an assist, and the Capitals beat the San Jose Sharks 5-1.Jakub Vrana and Tom Wilson each had a goal and an assist, and Nicklas Backstrom had two assists for Washington. Braden Holtby stopped 24 shots, and Ovechkin added an assist as the Capitals won for the fifth time in seven games after dropping seven straight.With the Capitals trailing 1-0 early Adidas Eric Fehr Jersey , Oshie’s power-play goal in the first period turned the game around.Oshie reached a milestone with his 500th career point later in the game. He has 16 points (five goals, 11 assists) in his last 13 games.“(Oshie) was really the one that set the tone for us tonight,” Capitals coach Todd Reirden said. “Obviously getting his 500th point, phenomenal. Kind of how it should work, that you sacrifice and do all the little things and you end up getting rewarded for it.”San Jose ended a six-game winning streak, which began with a 7-6 overtime win at Washington on Jan. 22. Sharks goalie Martin Jones turned back 18 shots.“Just seemed from the drop of the puck guys were excited to play, just happy and having fun,” Oshie said. “If anyone knows anything about this team, we play our best when we’re having fun.”The Sharks took an early lead on Kevin Labanc’s 11th goal at 2:06 of the first period, but it was all Washington after that.Oshie tied it on a power play less than two minutes later, and Vrana scored midway through the first period to give Washington a 2-1 lead.Ovechkin scored at 4:14 of the second period, and Oshie connected on his 18th goal with just under two minutes before the second intermission.Wilson added an empty-netter with 2:35 left in the game.The loss knocked San Jose out of sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division. The Sharks fell into a tie with Calgary, which picked up a point in a shootout loss to Florida. San Jose and Calgary are in a three-way tie atop the Western Conference with Winnipeg, which lost to Colorado.“We didn’t compete hard enough tonight and they went all in Adidas Greg Pateryn Jersey ,” Sharks forward Evander Kane said. “The won all the puck races, they had their skate legs and we didn’t. We didn’t execute in the middle of the ice and the middle of the zone. They had a lot of transition opportunities of that.”The Capitals remain in second place in the Metropolitan Division, three points behind the New York Islanders, who defeated Columbus.“They were hungrier and a little bit better than us,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “We had some pretty good nights in the last month and tonight wasn’t our best and – and we couldn’t out score our problems tonight. The first game from a trip like that is always tough, no matter what. They are a good team and if you aren’t right on you are going to have a hard time.”NOTES: Sharks D Erik Karlsson (groin injury) missed his ninth straight game, but the six-time All-Star appears to be moving closer to a return. Karlsson practiced Wednesday and participated in Thursday’s optional skate. … Sharks C Joe Thornton had an assist on Labanc’s goal, moving the 39-year-old past Hall of Famer Teemu Selanne for 15th on the NHL’s career points list with 1,458. … The Sharks had won 13 of their previous 16 games. … Labanc’s goal was his fifth in five games. … Capitals F Dmitrij Jaskin, a scratch the last two games, replaced C Nic Dowd in Thursday’s lineup. … Ovechkin has 14 points (six goals, eight assists) in his last nine games.UP NEXTWashington: At Anaheim on Sunday.San Jose: Hosts Vancouver on Saturday.