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(Sports Network) - The Winnipeg Jets visit Washington tonight with a chance to leapfrog the Capitals for first place in the Southeast Division and the third seed in the Eastern Conference. Viewers in the Jets region can watch the game on TSN Jets at 5:30pm ct/6:30pm et. The game is also available on TSN Radio 1290 and TSN.ca/Winnipeg. The Jets sit one point behind the Capitals in the Southeast Division but Washington has one game in hand. The Jets are also one point behind the eighth-place Ottawa Senators and seventh-place New York Rangers, who visit the Florida Panthers tonight, for the final two postseason spots in the East, though both of those clubs have a game in hand as well over the Jets, who end their regular season at home versus Montreal on Thursday. The Jets have used a seven-game point streak to keep pace in the standings, the longest string of consecutive games with a point since the club relocated from Atlanta. Winnipeg edged the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night to improve to 6-0-1 over its last seven. Antti Miettinen notched the deciding goal in the third period of a 2-1 win, while Ondrej Pavelec made 24 saves. Aaron Gagnon also scored ahead of tonights big matchup with the Capitals. "I think its been circled on our calendar for a long time now," said Winnipeg forward Andrew Ladd. "We wanted to put ourselves in a position where tomorrows going to be a meaningful game, and weve done that." The Jets will be without forward Kyle Wellwood for tonights contest after he suffered a hand injury blocking a shot on Monday night. Nik Antropov draws in to replace Wellwood. Winnipeg is already without center Olli Jokinen for the next 6-to-8 weeks due to a high ankle sprain, while defenceman Zach Bogosian has a reported concussion. Still, Winnipeg is looking to make the playoffs for only the second time in franchise history and for the first time since 2007. The last time that the Capitals got ready to face the Jets, they were 14th overall in the Eastern Conference and nine points back of their rivals for first place in the Southeast Division. Things have changed for the Caps since and they can lock up their fifth Southeast Division crown in six seasons on Tuesday night with a victory in regulation or overtime. Looking to dig themselves out of a slow start, the Capitals played back-to- back games in Winnipeg on March 21-22 with a chance to make up some ground on the then first-place Jets. They did that with a boom, outscoring Winnipeg 10-1 in taking both games. Overall, Washington won all three of its trips to Winnipeg this season by a 13-1 margin after losing the first meeting of the season between the clubs 4-2 in Washington on Jan. 22, part of the Caps 2-8-1 start to the season. The Capitals wont count on having such an easy time on Tuesday against the Jets, who have won three in a row and four of their last five in Washington. "I would say that obviously that is a good memory for us, but that was also a few weeks ago. Teams change. I dont think theyre the same team as they were that weekend," said Caps head coach Adam Oates. "Obviously we had two very good hockey games in there. We dictated the pace in both games and didnt give them many chances. Obviously were looking for something similar but we look for that every night." Washington is looking to secure its sixth straight trip to the playoffs and the first four came as division champs. The Capitals can lock up the division with a regulation or overtime victory over the Jets, who trail Washington by a point in the standings but with just two games left on the schedule to the Caps three. The Capitals come in on a roll, with their two straight wins in Winnipeg starting a 13-2-1 run. They won for the ninth time in 10 games on Saturday, besting the Montreal Canadiens 5-1. Alex Ovechkin and Troy Brouwer both scored twice, with Ovechkin upping his league-leading goal total to 30. It is his eighth straight campaign reaching the 30-goal mark despite the shortened season and he became one of only nine players in NHL history to score 30 goals in each of his first eight seasons. Ovechkin has 21 goals and 10 assists over his last 20 games played, while Mike Ribeiro had three assists on Saturday to give him a goal and eight helpers over a five-game point streak. Braden Holtby had 35 saves in the triumph for Washington, which is hosting Winnipeg, Ottawa and Boston to close the regular season. Ovechkin has three goals and seven points versus the Jets this season, while Ribeiro has notched five points. "Its going to be in (the playoffs) or in a huge battle for the last couple of games here," said Caps forward Troy Brouwer on Monday. "You dont want to have to worry about somebody else helping you our or doing something for you. You have your own destiny." 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Pittsburgh will face a very different task when it opens the second round on Tuesday night against Ottawa. 12th Fan Super Bowl Jersey .J. - Rex Ryan insists this will not be a lost season for Dee Milliner.PHILADELPHIA - Flyers defenceman Chris Pronger will miss two to three weeks and spend the next few days on bed rest after taking a stick near his right eye against Toronto. Pronger and Torontos Mikhail Grabovski sprinted for a loose puck in the circle after a rebound off Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky on Monday night. Grabovski slapped at the puck, but his stick connected with Prongers stick and the blade shot straight up into the defencemans face. Pronger screamed in agony and instantly clutched his face. Hunched over, he skated straight to the bench, his hands over his eyes, and went to the dressing room with 8:02 left in the first period. Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren told TSN that Pronger saw an eye specialist at the arena.ddddddddddddPronger will be on bed rest for three to four days out of concern for possible blood pooling. The Flyers hope that Pronger will get back in two to three weeks depending on how the injury heals, and said that he will need to wear a visor to be cleared to play. The team said that Pronger complained of blurred vision after the incident on Monday. "I think he was very scared and rightly so," Holmgren told the Associated Press. "When something like that happens to your eye, youre worried about whats going on. I think he settled down over a period of time and was fine when he left." The tough 37-year-old defenceman lost 32 games to various injuries last season. ' ' '