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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. 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SAINT-DENIS, France -- Portugal may have lost its captain Cristiano Ronaldo through injury, but it found a goalkeeper on outstanding form in the European Championship final.Rui Patricio made sure France never broke through a defensive line that was the foundation of Portugals 1-0 victory in extra time on Sunday.A leaping save to tip away Antione Griezmanns early header; a diving block to divert Olivier Girouds powerful second-half shot; and a stretching parry of Moussa Sissokos sizzling drive in the 84h minute. Rui Patricio did everything right.Rui Patricio is beyond reproach. I should congratulate him, Portugal coach Fernando Santos said through a translator.The Portugal keeper made seven key saves to repel Frances attack. His efforts extended his record of conceding only one goal in seven and a half hours of play since Portugal limped through the group stage with three draws in third place behind Hungary and Iceland.It had been the 28-year-old goalkeepers save of a penalty in the shootout against Poland, from Jakub Blaszczykowski, that helped his team through a tricky quarterfinal that ended 1-1 after extra time.ddddddddddddIn the penalty shootout, he was very important and today he was a key player, Santos said.At the Stade de France, Rui Patricios most athletic effort was soaring to reach Griezmanns looping header in the 10th minute, just as Portugal was reeling from the injury to Ronaldo moments earlier.Griezmann, the six-goal top scorer at Euro 2016, was denied again when he shot low to the `keepers left in the 58th minute.He (Greizmann) had chances, but he came up tonight against a goalkeeper who made some crucial saves, France coach Didier Deschamps said.Maybe now Rui Patricio will get wider recognition.Even on his 52th international appearance, and at his fourth major tournament, he is one of the most under-appreciated top goalkeepers in Europe.He has been a one-club player, spending his entire career with Sporting Lisbon, which only rarely plays in the Champions League.Sporting will be in the elite 32-team group stage in September -- with a European champion between the posts. 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