Stars take series lead after beating Jets 5-2

Stephen Hawkins · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 11, 2025 8:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Mikko Rantanen had a extremity and 2 assists, including 1 connected the tiebreaking extremity by Alexander Petrovic that was yet confirmed aft a lengthy reappraisal arsenic the Dallas Stars bushed the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 connected Sunday to instrumentality 2-1 pb successful the second-round Western Conference series.

Officials reviewed Petrovic's extremity for good implicit 5 minutes and portion determining determination was a kicking motion, the extremity was bully aft the puck went disconnected goalie Connor Hellebuyck's instrumentality and into the nett with 16:09 left. That each came disconnected the rebound of the archetypal changeable by Rantanen, who 49 seconds aft play resumed scored his ninth extremity of the playoffs -- each coming successful the past six games.

Game 4 successful the best-of-seven bid is Tuesday nighttime successful Dallas.

Roope Hintz had a extremity and an assistance for the Stars, and Wyatt Johnston added a precocious goal. Sam Steel and Mikael Granlund each had 2 assists.

Rantanen, who has 18 points this post-season, had the superior assistance connected a power-play extremity by Hintz lone 2:27 successful for a 1-0 lead. When Dallas scored again precocious successful the archetypal play for a 2-1 lead, Rantanen was connected the crystal for defenceman Thomas Harley's goal, but the assists went to Granlund and Steel.

That ended Rantanen's NHL playoffs-record streak of consecutive goals progressive successful astatine 13 successful a enactment for the Stars since Game 5 of their first-round bid against Colorado.

Stars goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 23 shots. Hellebuyck, the odds-on favourite to triumph his 3rd Vezina Trophy arsenic the league's champion goalie, and besides among 3 finalists for the Hart Trophy that goes to the MVP of the NHL regular season, dropped to 0-4 successful roadworthy games this post-season aft giving up 5 goals connected 26 shots.

Nino Niederreiter got Winnipeg adjacent astatine 2-2 midway done the 2nd play connected his changeable from the bottommost of the close ellipse aft Josh Morrissey made a nifty determination to get astir Stars centre Colin Blackwell earlier making the walk for the goal.

The Stars had gone up 2-1 precocious successful the archetypal aft Niederreiter tripped Granlund, who slid with the puck on the boards down the nett and got his knees to swipe it to Harley successful the slot.

Kyle Connor scored the archetypal Winnipeg extremity erstwhile helium recovered a changeable wide near of the net, past scored connected a wraparound extremity that got nether Oettinger's extended glove.