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• Jets' Kyle Connor: Unlikely Gordie Howe hat trick

  4H ago • By RotoWire

  Connor scored an empty-net goal on three shots, added a power-play assist and logged a fighting major in Friday's 4-1 win over the Penguins. The fight was Connor's first in his NHL career, so it's safe to assume no one expected him to have a Gordie Howe hat trick. His bout stemmed from him throwing a reverse hit on Sidney Crosby early in the third period. Connor's consistency has slipped lately -- he's gotten on the scoresheet in just three of the last eight games, but he has a multi-point effort all three times. Overall, he's at 13 goals, 13 helpers, six power-play points, 73 shots on net and a plus-10 rating over 20 appearances.

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• Jets' Kyle Connor: Two-point effort in win

  3D ago • By RotoWire

  Connor scored a goal and added an assist in Tuesday's 6-3 win over the Panthers. The 27-year-old winger opened the scoring late in the first period by flipping a backhand top shelf over Sergei Bobrovsky. Connor has been feast or famine in November, recording two multi-point performances in the last seven games but getting held off the scoresheet completely in the other five. On the season, he's delivered 12 goals and 24 points in 19 contests, tying him with Mark Scheifele for the team lead in scoring.

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• Jets' Kyle Connor: Near top of NHL in goals

  10D ago • By RotoWire

  Connor scored two goals and added one assist in a 6-3 win over the Rangers on Tuesday. He fired seven shots and finished plus-4. After starting the season on a 12-game, 19-point scoring streak (nine goals, 10 assist), Connor hadn't picked up a point in three games and had gone five games without a goal. Now with 11 goals, Connor sits in a tie with several players for second in the NHL, just one behind league leader Cole Caufield (12). With 62 shots in 16 games, Connor is on track to fire the puck on net 317 times, a total he delivered in 2021-22 when he sniped 47 goals.

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• Jets' Kyle Connor: Keeps streak alive with helper

  21D ago • By RotoWire

  Connor provided an assist and four shots on goal in Friday's 6-2 win over the Blue Jackets. Connor set up Gabriel Vilardi's goal with just over five minutes left in the game. This was the first time in five contests Connor failed to log multiple points, but he kept his season-opening point streak alive. Through 11 outings, the star winger has nine goals, nine assists, 44 shots on net, seven blocked shots and a plus-6 rating. This is an impressive scoring pace even by his standards, though Connor routinely maintains a shooting percentage around 15-16 percent, so his mark of 20.5 percent this season isn't that outrageous.

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• Jets' Kyle Connor: Season-opening streak at 9 games

  25D ago • By RotoWire

  Connor scored twice and added two assists in a 6-4 loss to Toronto on Monday. Both goals came on the power play. Connor sits in a three-way tie with Mikko Rantanen and Nikita Kucherov for eighth on the NHL scoring list with 14 points (nine games). His eight goals are one shy of the NHL lead, held by Nico Hischier. Connor has tallied in every Winnipeg game this season, and he has propelled the Jets to an 8-1-0 start to the year. The 27-year-old is a fantasy juggernaut right now, and with this start, another 90-plus point season could be in the cards, health willing.

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