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What do you need to know about the weekends big stories? Scott Burnside gives us his take on the biggest and best.Love for the Jackets: Isnt it time we started to give the Columbus Blue Jackets and head coach John Tortorella some well-deserved love? Tortorella took a lot of heat, along with the rest of Team USA, for the teams lifeless performance at the World Cup of Hockey. But after losing their first two games of the regular season, the Blue Jackets have gone 10-2-2, including Sundays 3-2 win over the defending Presidents Trophy-winning Washington Capitals. That win marks four in a row for a team that leads the NHL in power-play efficiency (they scored one with the man advantage Sunday) and is second in goals scored per game. With a sterling 7-2-2 record at home, it means the accursed Columbus Civil War cannon is going off like crazy at Nationwide Arena. Sundays win wrapped up a weekend that also saw them knock off the red-hot New York Rangers on Friday night. The Blue Jackets are for real.Good time to score: In the end, it wasnt so much the goals -- although Connor McDavid was no doubt pleased to see three on the official score sheet for his first-ever NHL hat trick -- but rather the result. Of course, for the Edmonton Oilers captain and most important player, McDavids performance and the Oilers success are pretty much inexorably linked. And so it was that McDavids three goals in Saturdays 5-2 win over the disappointing Dallas Stars did break an unusually long goal-less drought (10 games), but it also helped halt an ugly skid that had seen the Oilers lose five straight and go 2-7-1 after a 7-1-0 start. The win moved the Oilers, at least temporarily, back into a tie with the Anaheim Ducks for the top spot in the Pacific Division. The key now for McDavid, second in the league with 22 points, and the Oilers is to prove this wasnt an aberration but the norm, as they host the Chicago Blackhawks and then visit the Colorado Avalanche and Arizona Coyotes in what should be two winnable road games later this week.Caution for Cunningham:?Finally, warm thoughts and wishes go out to Craig Cunningham, the captain of the Tucson Roadrunners of the American Hockey League, and his family. The 26-year-old collapsed on the ice shortly before a game between the Roadrunners and the Manitoba Moose in Tucson Saturday, and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he remains. The Arizona Daily Star reported Cunningham appeared to convulse on the ice and was attended to by medical staff from both teams and firefighters who were on the ice as part of a pregame ceremony. The game was postponed and will be rescheduled. Officials with the Roadrunners parent club, the Arizona Coyotes, describe the situation as both very serious and fluid as of Sunday evening. Cunningham is a native of Trail, British Columbia, and was drafted 70th overall by the Boston Bruins in 2010. Hed been with the Coyotes organization the past couple of seasons and played 29 games with the big club over the past two seasons. Cunningham, who had 13 points in 11 games for the Roadrunners this season, is described as a hard worker and was extremely well-liked in the Coyotes room. Jamaal Wilkes Lakers Jersey .C. -- Calgarys Kevin Koe did it the hard way again. Nick Van Exel Jersey . Jason Zucker and Matt Cooke also scored for Minnesota, which has won five of six. Kuemper made five saves in the first, nine in the second, and nine in the third. The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side. http://www.lakersbasketballshop.com/Elgin-Baylor-Jersey/ . Fellow centre Pavel Datsyuk remains out because of a concussion. Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists. Los Angeles Lakers Jerseys . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. Lance Stephenson Lakers Jersey . In taking its goal tally to 99 in all competitions already this season, City delivered another demonstration of its lethal firepower at Etihad Stadium to set up a fourth-round match at home to another second-tier team -- Watford. SEATTLE -- Washington stayed quiet. Stanford was just the next opponent, the Huskies said, and there was no extra meaning or motivation.Then the celebration happened, complete with purple-clad fans rushing the field to celebrate Washingtons 44-6 rout Friday night.After months of hype surrounding a possible breakout performance for Washington (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12), the 10th-ranked Huskies showed they were ready for their return to the national stage.And they did it emphatically, handing No. 7 Stanford (3-1, 2-1) its worst loss since a 41-3 setback against Arizona State in 2007.We have had this game circled since spring time, Washington defensive end Joe Mathis said. They beat us so bad last year. We wanted them so bad.Jake Browning threw for 210 yards and three touchdowns, Myles Gaskin added 100 yards rushing and two scores, and Washington claimed its most lopsided victory over an AP top 10 team since beating No. 5 Southern California 31-0 in 1990. That game 26 years ago announced Washington as a national contender and it went on to share the national title a year later with Miami.It was Washingtons biggest win over a top 10 team, bettering a 36-point victory over Wisconsin in 1959.But try getting Washington coach Chris Petersen to acknowledge the importance.We dont get any trophies for winning tonight, Petersen said.Browning was the leader of an efficient offense that scored on seven of nine drives. He threw touchdown passes of 3 yards to Dante Pettis, 19 yards to John Ross and 3 yards to Aaron Fuller with 5:30 remaining. Browning was 15 of 21 and did not commit a turnover.Equally important was Washingtons ability to establish a running game. The Huskies rushed for 214 yards and averaged 5.2 yards per carry.Everyone just did their job, Browning said. It wasnt anything flashy about it. Everyone did what they were supposed to.Meanwhile, Stanford star Christian McCaffrey saw his Heisman Trophy aspirations hit a major speed bump. McCaffrey was held to 49 yards rushing on 12 carries, five catches for 30 yards and continued his streak of never scoring an offensive touchdown in a road game.It was McCaffreys fewest yards rushing since 2014 at California when he had 19 yards on three carries.Stanfords only TD came late in the third quarter on a 19-yard pass from Ryan Burns to J.J. Arcega-Whiteeside.ddddddddddddWe didnt play well. We didnt block well. We couldnt run the ball. We couldnt pass protect and we couldnt complete passes with any consistency, particularly the first two and a half quarters, Stanford coach David Shaw said. Just not the style of football that we can play and not as well as we can play.Burns was 15 of 22 for 151 yards, but Washington controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides. Stanford quarterbacks were sacked eight times, six in the first half. Stanford had allowed only four total sacks in the first three games combined.That was about as poorly as we can play from start to finish. Thats the bottom line, Shaw said.POLL IMPLICATIONSWashington has a chance to make a significant jump possibly into the top five depending on what happens in the other matchups of top 10 teams this weekend. The Huskies were as high as No. 8 but slipped to 10th after edging Arizona in overtime last week.Stanford is likely to be punished for such a lopsided defeat, but still has quality wins over Kansas State, USC and UCLA. Expect the Cardinal to fall into the teens.TAKEAWAYSStanford: The Cardinal were unexpectedly sloppy. Stanford committed 11 penalties after entering the week as the least penalized team in the Pac-12. There were communication issues in part due to the roaring Washington crowd, but also a lack of sharpness not normally seen from Shaws team.Washington: The defense was up to the task of keeping McCaffrey under control and forcing Burns to beat them through the air. McCaffrey had 34 yards on 10 carries in the first half and forced the Cardinal into numerous long third-down situations. That allowed Washington to bring extra pass rushers to get to Burns.SHORT-HANDED CARDINALStanford was playing short-handed without starting cornerbacks Quenton Meeks and Alijah Holder, starting wide receiver Francis Owusu and starting fullback Daniel Marx. Starting right tackle Casey Tucker limped off with an apparent leg injury late in the fourth quarter.UP NEXTStanford: The Cardinal head home after two straight weeks on the road to host Washington State.Washington: The Huskies travel to Oregon looking to snap a 12-game losing streak to the Ducks. ' ' '