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Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Patric Hornqvist returned to the lineup and scored the game-winning goal during the third period to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-3 win over Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday. Hornqvist, who missed 11 games due to a lower-body injury, finished with two goals, David Perron had a goal and an assist and Steve Downie and Nick Spaling also scored for the Penguins, who ended a four-game skid. I thought we were playing a great game, Pittsburgh head coach Mike Johnston said. Wins are critical, but its how your team is playing. Kris Letang also came back for Pittsburgh after sitting out the final game prior to the All-Star break with a concussion and tallied a career-high five assists. Thomas Greiss made 19 saves in the win. Adam Lowry and Chris Thorburn each posted a goal and an assist. Jacob Trouba also lit the lamp and Evander Kane supplied three helpers as the Jets five- game winning streak came to an end. Ondrej Pavelec stopped 25 shots in defeat. We were able to get a couple leads throughout the course of the game, but werent able to hold them, said Thorburn. Its unfortunate. Pittsburgh has won its last six games against the Jets and owns a 14-game unbeaten streak at home against them that dates back to March 24, 2007, when they were the Atlanta Thrashers. Hornqvist put the Penguins ahead for good on the power play as he was stationed in front and whacked the puck past Greiss for a 4-3 Penguins lead 7:52 into the third period. Winnipeg pulled Pavelec with over a minute remaining and Hornqvist scored on the empty net with 28 seconds left to seal the win. Perron skated down below the goal line and slipped a pass into the slot, where Spaling tapped the puck into the net to open the scoring 7:09 into the game. Just over two minutes into the second, Thorburn crashed the net and tipped in Lowrys lead pass past Greiss blocker for a tied game. Winnipeg went in front 2-1 on Troubas blast from the point that went past a screened Greiss with 7:13 remaining in the middle stanza. Letang blasted a shot from the right circle and Downie buried the rebound past Pavelec for a tied game with 4.6 seconds left in the second. The Jets didnt wait long to reclaim their lead as Lowry beat Greiss with a wrister 59 seconds into the final frame, but Perron tipped the puck through the pads of Pavelec for a power-play goal and a 3-3 score at 4:23. Game Notes Pittsburgh forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were both absent from the lineup due to lower-body injuries ... Letang registered his 200th career assist on Spalings marker and became the second Penguins defenseman to record at least five in a game. Ron Stackhouse tallied six on March 8, 1975 ... Pittsburgh is now 21-5-5 when scoring first ... Pavelec is 2-13-1 in his career against the Penguins. Nike Air Max Plus Pas Cher . 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I said, Of course I have interest. I was shocked. I was a 28-year-old, part-time assistant coach at a Division III school in the middle of Iowa.Arseneaults addition is the latest — and perhaps most unconventional — example of how NBA franchises are increasingly using their minor-league team as a testing ground for new ideas.Since it started in 2001, the D-League has been focused on fostering and funneling talent to the NBA. Thats come mostly in the form of personnel, with the leagues most recent count tallying 139 players, 29 assistant coaches and two head coaches — Memphis Dave Joerger, and Utahs Quin Snyder — currently on NBA rosters with D-League experience.With 17 of 30 NBA franchises affiliated with one lower-tier club now, the expanding partnerships are allowing the D-League to become a melting pot for innovation.Arseneault and his father, David Arseneault Sr., got the attention of the Kings in 2012 when Jack Taylor scored an NCAA-record 138 points in Grinnells 179-104 victory over Faith Baptist Bible. Arseneault Jr. was the de facto head coach the past few years, though his dad held the official title.Now he has the Bighorns averaging 140 points per game in what has simply become known as The System. The general principles are to shoot within 12 seconds, apply a full-court pressure defence, substitute all five players every couple of minutes and attempt a ton of 3-pointers.Organized chaos, he calls it.Arseneault said he communicates with Sacramentos front office daily, including Oliver, Kings general manager Pete DAlessandro, assistant general manager Mike Bratz, and scouting co-ordinator and Bighorns assistant general manager Chris Gilbert.The ultimate goal is to provide the Sacramento Kings with something that they can use at the highest level of basketball, Arseneault said.The Kings, thrrough a team spokesman, declined to comment on the system.dddddddddddd But theyve hardly been the only franchise taking a trial-and-error attitude with their D-League team.Last year, the Houston Rockets hired Nevada Smith — then just 33 years old — from Division III Keystone College in La Plume, Pennsylvania, to lead their D-League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.The Rockets, led by general manager Daryl Morey, were interested in Smith because of the way his team relied almost entirely on 3s and layups. Theyve used Rio Grande Valley, which attempted a league-high 45.4 shots per game from beyond the arc last season, to try out different schemes.I think weve had some creative minds, Smith said. We have some other things well do at some point in the season. Kind of saving them right now. Youll have to wait and see. Its kind of crazy, but its fun.The Golden State Warriors are fully invested in their D-League club, the Santa Cruz Warriors, who are owned and operated by the NBA franchise.Santa Cruz coach Casey Hill spent this summer learning the system Steve Kerr implemented with Golden State. The Warriors, like many teams, want players to know the system at both levels so when theyre called up or sent down — as centre Ognjen Kuzmic has been often this season — they know what to do.Its a tool that were going to use, and we have used, to make our NBA team better, Warriors general manager Bob Myers said.With constant call-ups and contract buyouts, the ever-changing rosters in the D-League create the biggest challenges for teams trying to think outside the box.Arseneault, for instance, was rotating more than 15 players at Grinnell. Now he usually has about 10 players with Reno, and theyre all competing for an NBA contract.Arseneault, under the direction of the Kings, said he has made subtle adjustments every game. In a 129-119 win over the Westchester Knicks on Friday night, he had one group run the Grinnell system and another group run a traditional system to fit everyones skills.Arseneault finds it all fascinating, mostly because he never expected the system his father adopted to ever win games — let alone at the professional level. It was just supposed to inject some fun into a small college team.Ive told (the Kings), Please come to me with any experiments you would like to see, Arseneault said. If we can even provide them with one little thing, one little tweak, I would consider it a success.___Antonio Gonzalez can be reached at: www.twitter.com/agonzalezAP ' ' '