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NEW YORK -- Although the New York Rangers didnt play an especially dominant style, they did enough to keep up their winning play.J.T. Miller, Jesper Fast and Pavel Buchnevich scored 4:04 apart late in the second period to lead the high-scoring Rangers to their fifth straight victory, 5-2 over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night.Tonight is a good night to use `never critique a win, just take the win, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said. It was our fifth game in eight nights, fourth game in six nights. ... These are tough on players, tough physically, tough mentally. Youve got to grind it out.Kevin Hayes and Mats Zuccarello also scored, Kevin Klein and Brandon Pirri had two assists and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 24 shots as New York won for the eighth time in nine games. The Rangers, who lead the NHL with 55 goals and 4.23 per game, have scored at least five in each game of their winning streak.Weve played a lot of hockey lately, Miller said. Some games you dont really have it, but you find ways to get it done. ... I think were finding a way for everybody to contribute right now and its hard to stop for the opposition if you have four lines rolling like that.Patrik Laine and Mark Scheifele scored for Winnipeg, which has lost four of its last five (1-3-1). Connor Hellebuyck started and gave up four goals on 16 shots before he was replaced late in the second period by Michael Hutchinson, who finished with one save.After a scoreless first half of the second period in which Winnipeg had a 4-1 advantage on shots, the Rangers outscored the Jets 4-1 over the final 10 minutes.I think we are a little bit guilty of getting too excited about our zone time and some of our lateral plays that we tried to make instead of getting right to the net, Jets coach Paul Maurice said. Thats what (the Rangers) are good at, theyll transition off of that. They can shoot the puck off the rush and we got burned by it.Zuccarello fired a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle past Hellebuyck for his sixth to put the Rangers up 2-1 just past the midpoint of the second.Scheifele tied it 2 minutes later as he pounced on a puck sitting in front of an open net after a shot by Paul Postma was stopped by Lundqvist. It was Scheifeles seventh of the season.Miller skated up the right side and fired a wrist shot over Hellebuycks right shoulder for his fifth, putting the Rangers up 3-2 with 6:59 remaining.Fast gave New York a two-goal lead with 3:36 left as he tipped a point shot by Klein from the right faceoff circle for his second goal. That chased Hellebuyck and brought on Hutchinson.Buchnevich made it 5-2 just 41 seconds later as he slid the puck from his backhand across to the left side in front of Hutchinson and fired it over the sprawled goalie. It was Buchnevichs second of the season and second in two games.It should be on the highlights, Vigneault said. Its going to be up in Canada anyway, they look for goals like that. It was a great goal.The Jets controlled play in the scoreless third period, outshooting the Rangers 9-1, but couldnt get anything past Lundqvist.I dont think we are super pleased with everything in our game but we are finding ways to win games, Lundqvist said.Hayes got the Rangers off to a fast start with his sixth of the season 2:12 into the game. Skating with an extra attacker on a delayed penalty, Hayes took a pass from Klein and fired a slap shot from inside the blue line past Hellebuyck. That gave Hayes a goal in four straight games.Laine tied it with 9:15 left in the first, tipping a point shot by Ben Chiarot for the 18-year-old rookies eighth of the season.Game notes Laine, selected by Winnipeg with the No. 2 overall pick in this years draft, scored for the second straight game after going without a point in his previous four. ... The teams conclude their season series Dec. 8 at Winnipeg. ... Hayes has a point in five straight games (four goals, five assists). ... Brady Skjei had an assist on Hayes goal, giving him a point in five straight games (six assists).UP NEXTJets: Host Dallas on Tuesday night.Rangers: Host Vancouver on Tuesday night before heading out on a four-game road trip.---Follow Vin Cherwoo at www.twitter.com/VinCherwooAP Mitch Moreland Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. Chris Sale Jersey . 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Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The smallest Power Five conference is not getting any larger. The Big 12 is staying at 10 schools.After three months of analyzing, vetting and interviewing possible new members, Big 12 leaders on Monday took expansion off their agenda.This was not a decision to not expand, Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. This was an endorsement and reinvestment in the 10 that we had.Oklahoma President David Boren said the decision was unanimous and no specific schools were discussed or voted on during five hours or so of expansion talk while Big 12 presidents and chancellors met Sunday night and Monday.Boren, the chairman of the Big 12 board of directors and the only president who has been in the league since its inception in 1996, insisted he has never seen such a unified sense of purpose on the board.Texas President Greg Fenves said 10 is the right number for the league.It promotes a competitive balance and allows for a round-robin schedule in the different sports, which is best for our student-athletes, Fenves said. This is the right way to ensure a strong conference moving forward.Conference officials held interviews in September with Air Force and Colorado State from the Mountain West; Central Florida, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, South Florida, SMU and Tulane from the American Athletic Conference; Rice from Conference USA; and BYU, which is a football independent with its other sports in the West Coast Conference.Moving into a Power Five conference for those schools would mean tens of millions of dollars more revenue per year, along with greater exposure and prestige.Houston athletic director Hunter Yurachek said the Big 12s decision is not just about the University of Houston and the Big 12 Conference, its about the evolving landscape of collegiate athletics. It does not, and will not, deter our mission of building champions for life.UConn President Susan Herbst said going through the process was a positive experience and it gave her a better understanding of where UConn stands and what it has to offer.Most of the schools they were talking to were in our conference, she said. I think that shows, without question, that our conference plays at their level and are athletically and academically appropriate to be a Power Five.Boren once called the Big 12 psychologically disadvantaged as the smallest Power Five league and the only one without a football championship game.The circumstances have radically changed, Boren explained Monday when asked about the comment he first made in June 2015.Boren said his interest in expansion was tied to his desire for the Big 12 tto start a television network like the ones the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference and Pac-12 have and the one the Atlantic Coast Conference is on target to start with ESPN in 2019.dddddddddddd Once it was determined that the market was not there for a network, his interest in expansion cooled.And the Big 12 announced earlier this year it was bringing back its football championship game in 2017, no matter its composition.Knowing now there will be 10 teams, Big 12 athletic directors can move forward with the process of determining if the league will split into divisions and how to determine which teams will play in the championship game.Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, part of a subcommittee addressing those issues, said that decision could be made by November. As for the site of the title game, he said the league got bids from four potential hosts.While never committing to expansion, the Big 12 has been tossing around the idea for almost two years as it tries to find ways to increase revenue and improve the conferences chances to make the College Football Playoff. The Big 12 was left out of the first playoff in 2014, but conference champion Oklahoma made it last season.Boren and Bowlsby both said that expansion could be re-addressed in the future, but said it no longer is an active agenda item.In June, the conference announced record payouts to members of $30 million each, and expansion talk seemed to fade.A month later, at their last board meeting, school presidents were briefed by consultants who explained how the conference could bolster its playoff chances by adding schools and boost revenue.Two new members would have meant an extra $50 million in TV revenue per year for the Big 12 on contracts with ESPN and Fox that run through 2025.The networks have not been keen on the idea of paying the Big 12 to add schools. When asked if the league would be getting more money from ESPN and FOX for not expanding, Bowlsby wouldnt get into specifics about negotiations.We have a new piece of inventory with our championship game, so were in the process of discussions with both FOX and ESPN on that, Bowlsby said. There are components of the contract that we also talk about in the context of those changes, and were going to continue to talk about those.---AP College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo in New York and AP Sports Writer Jim Vertuno in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.---Online:APs college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '