Mikael Granlund clarified the first career playoff hat trick to accelerate Dallas on Tuesday to Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday, and moved away from moving to the last four of the Stanley Cup playoffs of a win to the stars.
Goaltender Jake Oettinger saved 31 with a bright performance that led the seven best western conference semi-final series for the stars. Dallas, who is on the verge of reaching the conference finals for the third season, will try to close the set in Winnipeg on Thursday.
Nikolaj Ehlers scored goals for Jets, who finished in the league ranking in the normal season but finds themselves on the threshold of qualifying. The goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck stopped 21 shots.
Winnipeg has lost all of the play -off matches in this spring, and Jets left a playoff trip in the last three consecutive years.
Granlund scored an 8:36 power game goal to open the score. Vergency Ileri tried to nest and made a long shot that escaped from Hellebuyck while using a defensive for a screen.
Ehlers, in the last three games with the third goal of Jets’i 62 seconds, even the second period. Two seconds after the duration of a Winnipeg power game expired, Ehlers found a sign with a sharp -angle offer.
In 17:52 of the middle frame, Granlund put the stars ahead.
Granlund clarified the third of the game in the third period at 7:23, a few minutes after Oetting has rejected Kyle Connor’s short fifty separation. During a four -minute power game, Granlund evacuated a timer from the right circle, which brought a hush from the stands.
Winnipeg’s best chance to make a return came during the late power game, but Jets could not turn it with the advantage of The Man for the third time in the game. In the series, they only received points with 16 power games.
The jets created a lot of opportunities in decreasing minutes, but Oettinger closed the door.
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