Stars score OT power-play goals to beat Jets 2-1, winning playoff series

Stephen Hawkins · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 18, 2025 12:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Thomas Harley scored connected a powerfulness play 1:33 into overtime to fto the Dallas Stars advance to the Western Conference last for the 3rd play successful a row, beating the top-seeded Winnipeg Jets 2-1 successful Game 6 connected Saturday night.

Mark Scheifele scored for the Jets hours aft the unexpected decease of his father, but besides had the tripping punishment with 14.8 seconds near successful regularisation that acceptable up Dallas to commencement overtime with a antheral advantage.

Sam Steel, who scored earlier for Dallas, was connected a partial breakaway erstwhile Scheifele lunged guardant desperately trying to marque a play erstwhile helium tripped up the guardant astatine the bluish enactment — an infraction that could person resulted successful a punishment shot.

The Stars called a timeout, but missed a changeable and had different 1 blocked earlier the extremity of regularisation time.

The Stars determination connected to look the Edmonton Oilers successful the Western Conference last for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, and volition big Game 1 connected Wednesday.

Connor McDavid and the Oilers, who won successful six games past year, wrapped up their second-round bid with a 1-0 overtime triumph implicit Vegas connected Wednesday nighttime successful Game 5.

Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger made 22 saves to wrapper up his sixth playoff bid triumph implicit the past 3 seasons.

He made an unthinkable diving prevention with astir eight minutes near successful regulation, leaning to the close earlier having to lunge backmost crossed his assemblage toward the near station to sound down a changeable by Mason Appleton.

Hellebuyck, the two-time Vezina Trophy who is the odds-on favourite to triumph the top goalie grant again this season, stopped 18 shots.

Scheifele consoled by teammates aft loss

Dallas has won each 3 of its overtime games this post-season. It was lone the 2nd OT crippled for the Jets, who scored doubly successful the last 2 minutes of regularisation successful Game 7 of the archetypal circular and past bushed the St. Louis Blues.

Steel got his archetypal extremity of the playoffs midway done the 2nd period. He changeable a agelong rebound from the apical of the close circle, sending the puck into the precocious close country of the nett conscionable supra Hellebuyck's glove.

Scheifele got his 5th extremity of the playoffs erstwhile helium gathered the rebound of Kyle Connor's changeable and scored from conscionable extracurricular the crease astir five minutes into the 2nd period. That people came earlier a whistle blew for a delayed punishment — a precocious instrumentality by Oettinger into the look of Gabriel Vilardi — who got the secondary assistance for his walk to Connor.

After pumping his fist to celebrate, Scheifele had a immense grin connected this look erstwhile mobbed by his teammates that were connected the crystal for the extremity that made it 1-0.

That was each acceptable up aft Nikolja Ehlers had a breakaway changeable that was knocked distant by Oettinger and retrieved by Scheifele.

Hellebuyck withstood a 46-second flurry precocious successful the archetypal play erstwhile the Stars had 8 shots — three that were connected goal, on with 4 misses and 1 that was blocked.

After the crippled wrapped, galore of Scheifele's teammates skated implicit to him to implicit condolences connected the nonaccomplishment of his father.