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As the Winnipeg Jets continue to try and find the game they need to play in the Western Conferences Central Division, a familiar foe from their old Southeast Division days is in town, as they host the Washington Capitals for the only time this regular season at MTS Centre. Brad Evans USA Jersey . This is the Jets final game of a six-game homestand, where they are 2-3, thus far. Evander Kane leads the team in scoring with five goals and has scored in consecutive games. The Jets (4-5) sit sixth in the Central, three points behind the joint first-place St. Louis Blues and Nashville Predators. The Capitals (3-5, fifth in the Metropolitan Division) are beginning a four-game western Canadian swing that will also see stops in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Washington owns the top power play in the NHL (33 per cent) and have four goals in nine opportunities on the road. With the Capitals comes Jets-killer, Alexander Ovechkin. In 53 career games against the Thrashers/Jets, the Capitals captain has 38 goals and 40 assists. The MTS Centre will also be welcoming back former Jet Eric Fehr, who has been moved to centre by Capitals head coach Adam Oates. In the last 10 meeting between the two clubs, the Capitals are 6-2-2, having won the last four encounters. The two teams will meet again on February 6th at the Verizon Center in Washington. Ondrej Pavelec is expected to start his fourth-consecutive game in goal for the Jets, while Braden Holtby is expected to counter for the Capitals. The Jets held an optional pregame skate Tuesday morning, but ran with the following lines at Mondays practice: Kane-Scheifele-WheelerLadd-Little-SetoguchiHalischuk-Jokinen -FrolikWright-Cormier-Peluso Clitsome-ByfuglienEnstrom-BogosianPardy-Postma Capitals Projected Lines: Johansson-Backstrom-OvechkinErat-Laich-BrouwerChimera-Grabov ski-WardVolpatti-Fehr-Wilson Alzner-CarlsonSchmidt-GreenErskine-Olesky Bobby Wood Jersey . - With his backcourt mate out of the picture for the final three quarters and Memphis big men losing some steam down the stretch, Mike Conley went to work and carried the Grizzlies to a gritty win that put them over . Mix Diskerud Jersey . It was the 18-year-old from Toronto who got on the scoreboard in a losing cause as Tottenham defeated Toronto 3-2 in a soccer friendly Wednesday on the strength of an 85th-minute goal by Andros Townsend. Andrew Wiedeman and Hamilton had scored second-half goals to pull the home side even before a sellout crowd of 22,591 on a warm evening at BMO Field.TAMPA, Fla. - The struggling Ottawa Senators needed a boost Monday night, and their first-year captain provided it. Jason Spezza scored in regulation and had the only goal in a shootout, lifting the Senators to a 4-3 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Defenceman Erik Karlsson had a goal and two assists, and goalie Robin Lehner made 35 saves to help the Senators halt a six-game losing streak. "Its been a frustrating stretch of games here and difficult emotionally for us to lose that many hockey games in a row at this time of year," Spezza said. "Hopefully we can string a few together and feel good about ourselves again and just move forward," Karlsson said. "I think weve improved our game a lot, even though it hasnt been enough lately." Karlsson, the top-scoring defenceman in the NHL with 68 points, opened the scoring 3:57 into the game with his career-high 20th goal. Seventy seconds later, Nikita Kucherov snapped a shot past Lehner to tie it at 1. Ottawa took a 3-1 lead midway through the second period, when Spezza and Kyle Turris scored 44 seconds apart against former Senators goalie Ben Bishop. "Hes one of the best players in the world," Bishop said of Spezza. "I had him last time, he got me this time. I think were even now." The Lightning rallied from a two-goal deficit with power-play goals by Victor Hedman at 13:26 of the second period and Steven Stamkos at 5:44 of the third. Nick Rimando Jersey. Bishop finished with 29 stops for Tampa Bay, which has earned a point in nine consecutive games (5-0-4) for the first time since its 2003-04 championship season. The loss, however, dropped the Lightning into a third-place tie in the Eastern Conference with the Montreal Canadiens, who won a shootout at Boston. "We need to get every point that we can," Hedman said. "We want to be as high up in the standings as we can and get home ice." The Senators, meanwhile, are determined to finish strong. "We are fighting to the end and its nice for the guys to get this one," said Lehner, who won only once in his first seven career shootout appearances. Notes: Stamkos played in his 400th NHL game. ... Ottawa RW Bobby Ryan (lower body) sat out for the first time this season. He was replaced by Mark Stone, who was recalled from AHL affiliate Binghamton. ... Lightning C Valtteri Filppula has four goals and nine assists during a nine-game points streak. ... Tampa Bay has scored on the power play five games in a row. ... The Lightning have scored three or more goals in nine consecutive games. The Senators have allowed that many in 10 straight. ... The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds were in attendance. 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