Big win in Big D pushes Winnipeg Jets to brink of top seed in Western Conference

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Connor Hellebuyck stopped 24 shots for his single-season franchise grounds 45th triumph and NHL-leading eighth shutout, and the Winnipeg Jets moved person to the apical effect successful the Western Conference with a 4-0 triumph implicit the second-place Dallas Stars connected Thursday night.

Connor scores twice, Hellebuyck earns 8th shutout of the play successful showdown with Stars

Stephen Hawkins · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 11:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A Jets subordinate smiles and raises his instrumentality arsenic helium skates past the Dallas goaltender, who is stretched retired with the puck successful his net.

Kyle Connor scored doubly successful the 3rd play to get to 40 goals for the Jets, who are 54-21-4 for 112 points, and request lone 1 much constituent implicit their last 3 games to beryllium the No. 1 effect for the archetypal time. Nino Niederreiter and Morgan Barron besides scored.

Dallas (50-23-6, 106 points), which has 3 games remaining, is 0-2-2 its past four.

Hellebuyck had tied his ain franchise grounds with his 44th triumph implicit St. Louis connected Monday, and extended it with his 45th vocation shutout. He is successful presumption to beryllium the archetypal goalie since Bob Froese for Philadelphia successful 1986 to decorativeness the play arsenic the league person successful wins, goals-against average, prevention percent and shutouts.

A goaltender looks astatine a bouncing puck successful beforehand of him.

Takeaways

Jets: Winnipeg, archetypal successful the West each time since Jan. 14, extended its single-season franchise grounds with its 54th win. The Jets are 48-3-1 erstwhile scoring astatine slightest 3 goals.

Stars: Dallas was unopen retired for the archetypal clip this season. The Stars mislaid 6-5 successful overtime astatine location to Vancouver connected Tuesday, becoming the archetypal squad successful NHL past to suffer aft having a three-goal pb successful the last infinitesimal of regulation.

Key moment

Dallas opened the 3rd play with 1:20 near connected a powerfulness play, but Hellebuyck made a instrumentality prevention connected a point-blank changeable by Roope Hintz to support Winnipeg's two-goal lead.

Key stat

The Jets improved to 29-0-3 erstwhile starring aft the archetypal period, and 40-0-1 erstwhile up aft the second.

Up next

Winnipeg plays its last regular-season roadworthy crippled astatine Chicago connected Saturday, the aforesaid time the Stars person their location finale against Utah.

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