Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in the first period to spark the Winnipeg Jets to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.

Lankinen will be between the road pipes in Tuesday's road matchup versus the Jets, according to Ken Wiebe of The Winnipeg Free Press. Lankinen earned his fourth shutout of the campaign Saturday in a 3-0 victory over Toronto.

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.

And after being special for most of the season, Kevin Lankinen was less than ordinary. And so were most of his teammates and especially Vancouver’s top players.

Veteran forward Kyle Connor scored three goals in a span of just 6:38 in the first period, the left-winger's sixth career hat trick, sparking the first-place Winnipeg Jets to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday at the Canada Life Centre.

Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in the first period to spark the Winnipeg Jets to a 6-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

WINNIPEG -- Kyle Connor scored a natural hat trick in a 6:38 span in the first period, and the Winnipeg Jets cruised to a 6-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday.

When you’ve got a great game, you’re going to earn a good nickname. Kevin Lankinen doesn’t have a big book of NHL goaltending work to suggest he warrants a memorable moniker — certainly nothing like award-winning Dominik ‘The Dominator’ Hasek or Henrik ‘The King’ Lundqvist — but the quiet and confident Vancouver Canucks stopper does deserve a suitable label.

The Canucks ended their six-game road trip with a thud as they were embarrassed by the Jets. Winnipeg dominated on the scoreboard and, from an analytics perspective, winning both the even-strength scoring chances battle (20-13) and the even-strength high-danger scoring chances count (12-5).

The Canucks started this game with a couple big giveaways early on. The first came from JT Miller, and the second (and far more egregious one) came from Kevin Lankinen.

Kyle Connor's three-goal, four-point outing for the Jets over the Canucks was yet another example of how his cerebral nature allows him to weaponize his world-class talent, writes .

After their most complete game of 2025, the Vancouver Canucks fell 6–1 to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night. Winnipeg’s goal scorers were Kyle Connor (3), Neal Pionk, Nino Niederreiter, and Mark Scheifele.