Brutal 2nd-period stretch dooms Winnipeg Jets in St. Louis, forcing Game 7 Sunday

David Solomon · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 02, 2025 11:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Cam Fowler, Brayden Schenn and Nathan Walker scored successful a 2:06 span of the 2nd play and the St. Louis Blues bushed the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 connected Friday nighttime to unit a Game 7 in the first-round series.

Philip Broberg had a extremity and an assist, Alexey Toropchenko besides scored and Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for St. Louis who will instrumentality to Winnipeg for the deciding crippled Sunday night.

Cole Perfetti and Nino Niederreiter scored for Winnipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves earlier being pulled aft the second period for Eric Comrie who made 4 saves. Hellebuyck is 0-7 portion allowing astatine slightest 4 goals successful each of his past 7 roadworthy playoff starts.

Perfetti scored his archetypal extremity of the playoffs connected a powerfulness play 5:43 into the 2nd play to necktie the people 1-1.

Walker enactment St. Louis backmost up with his 3rd of the bid with 8:26 remaining successful the period, and Schenn got his 2nd of the postseason 53 seconds aboriginal to marque it 3-1.

Fowler scored his 2nd extremity of the playoffs with 6:20 remaining successful the 2nd play to springiness St. Louis a three-goal lead.

Fowler has a constituent successful each six games of the series, and his 10 points are the astir successful a bid for a defenceman successful franchise history.

Toropchenko capped St. Louis's four-goal play with 3:03 near successful the second.

The location squad has won each of the archetypal six games of this series.

Broberg scored his archetypal extremity of the playoffs connected the Blues' archetypal changeable connected extremity of the crippled 6:05 into the archetypal play to enactment St. Louis up 1-0.

Jets manager Scott Arniel called a timeout instantly aft the extremity but elected not to situation the play for goaltender interference arsenic Pavel Buchnevich had been pushed into the crease by Dylan Samberg.

Morgan Barron appeared to people the tying extremity 29 seconds into the 2nd period. However, the extremity was overturned aft St. Louis challenged the play erstwhile the officials ruled that Mason Appleton had entered the Blues' portion earlier Barron carried the puck in.

Jets guardant Nikolaj Ehlers returned to the lineup aft missing Winnipeg's past 2 regular play games and archetypal 5 games of the playoffs with a close ft injury.