Jets captain Lowry scores Game 7 winning goal in double OT against Blues

Judy Owen · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 04, 2025 11:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Winnipeg Jets skipper Adam Lowry was mobbed by teammates arsenic white-clad fans stood and roared aft helium tipped successful the winning extremity 16:10 into treble overtime for a 4-3 NHL triumph implicit the St. Louis Blues successful Game 7 connected Sunday.

The Jets volition look the Dallas Stars successful the 2nd circular of the Western Conference playoffs, starting Wednesday successful the Manitoba capital. Winnipeg has ne'er played the Stars successful the post-season.

It was the third-longest Game 7 successful NHL past astatine 96 minutes, 10 seconds.

Winnipeg was down 3-1 successful the 3rd play erstwhile seasoned guardant Vladislav Namestnikov scored with 1:56 remaining aft his changeable went successful disconnected Blues defenceman Ryan Suter.

With goalie Connor Hellebuyck pulled for the other attacker, Winnipeg looked similar it tied it up with 1:06 near but a reappraisal ruled the puck didn't transverse the extremity line.

Cole Perfetti past scored his 2nd redirected extremity of the crippled with 3 seconds remaining to assistance 15,225 frenzied white-clad fans retired of their seats wrong Canada Life Centre. Kyle Connor and Neal Pionk some had 3 assists for the Jets.

Winnipeg went connected the powerfulness play 6:20 into the archetypal overtime erstwhile St. Louis skipper Brayden Schenn was called for hold of game. The Jets tried to lb the puck successful the crease, but goalie Jordan Binnington covered it.

Binnington besides stopped winger Nikolaj Ehlers connected a breakaway. The Jets outshot the Blues 11-4 successful the archetypal other session.

Hellebuyck finished with 26 saves. The finalist for the Vezina and Hart trophies was pulled successful favour of backup Eric Comrie successful the erstwhile 3 games but made immoderate cardinal saves connected Sunday.

The Jets mislaid apical defenceman Josh Morrissey astir 8 minutes into the archetypal period. They were already without prima centre Mark Scheifele (upper-body injury) for a 2nd consecutive game.

Winnipeg won the franchise's archetypal Presidents' Trophy aft having a league-best 56-22-4 regular-season grounds and were the favourites against the eighth-seeded Blues.

The Jets jumped retired to a 2-0 pb successful the best-of-seven series, but ended up hosting the first-ever Game 7 successful the city.

Jordan Kyrou scored connected the Blues' archetypal changeable of the crippled and Mathieu Joseph and Radek Faksa besides had goals for the visitors. Binnington made 43 saves.

Kyrou scored astatine 1:10 aft helium and Colton Parayko went connected the rush. Kyrou passed the puck crossed the beforehand of the nett to Parayko, who passed it backmost and Kyrou poked it by a stretched-out Hellebuyck. It marked the fastest extremity to statesman a Game 7 successful Blues' history.

Joseph made it 2-0 aft picking up a escaped puck dropped by Connor successful the neutral zone. Using Morrissey arsenic a screen, Joseph sent a wrist changeable past Hellebuyck connected the instrumentality broadside astatine 7:16.

Morrissey went to the dressing soon aft the goal. Earlier successful the game, helium got deed into the boards by Blues guardant Oskar Sundqvist and appeared to beryllium successful symptom arsenic helium sat connected the bench. He didn't return.

The Jets missed connected a mates chances aboriginal successful the 2nd period, but got the game's archetypal powerfulness play and rapidly made it count.

Seven seconds aft Sundqvist was called for slashing, Connor sent the puck toward Perfetti astatine the broadside of the nett and the Whitby, Ont., merchandise redirected it by Binnington astatine 11:41.

St. Louis regained a two-goal pb aft Ehlers mislaid the puck and Faksa bushed Hellebuyck precocious implicit his mitt with 34.1 seconds near successful the second.

Playoff pasts

The Winnipeg/Atlanta Thrashers franchise is present 2-8 all-time erstwhile facing elimination. The different triumph came successful Game 7 of their second-round bid against the Nashville Predators successful 2018. The archetypal mentation of the Jets mislaid a brace of Game 7s connected the roadworthy successful 1990 and '92.

It was St. Louis's 19th all-time Game 7, the astir among each non-Original NHL clubs. The franchise present sports a 10-9 record.