Very few were waiting for Winnipeg Jets to go quietly.
Definitely, Dallas Stars coach Pete Deboer is not.
After escaping from the first elimination attempt, the jets will try to survive when they visit Dallas in the 6th game of the second round series of the Western Conference on Saturday evening.
The stars are still 3-2 in the seven best sets, but nothing is safe to a team that publishes the best record in NHL in the normal season. Winnipeg also fell with two goals and for two minutes. He stayed in the first round against Louis Blues.
“They won the president’s cup, right? This is a really good team, De Deboer said. “We have a great opportunity to go home and win it at home. We have done what we have to do, so to give this opportunity in a qualifying game (Dallas) in Winnipeg (Winnipeg’de game 1).
Connor Hellebuyck saved 22 with 4-0 wins in Winnipeg on Thursday.
“We’ll look at the video and see things we need to continue to do and some things we can clean,” Jets Forward Nikolaj Ehlers said two goals in the game 5. “But I think we played a really good game and it gave us the result we wanted.”
Not surprisingly, Jets played like a more desperate team in the game 5, limited stars to nine shots for two periods, and often won most of the disk battles.
“There is only 50-50 war during the game,” Winnipeg is adding, “he said. “This is only a combination of everyone with this extra equipment and this fight and only wanted. This is the final team sport. We need every man here. I thought we were the hardest time and acceleration of the year, but it is not clear.”
As emotions rise in the series, physicality is. Teams, 50 penalties in the game 5, the series met the most in the series.
“This is an emotional series, De Deboer said. “You play against a team at this time of the year, there’s some hatred. No problem.”
The stars are hoping to have the last meeting of the season with Game 6 with Jets, but they wanted it before 5 and they didn’t approach it.
Matt Duchene said, “You never want to give some life,” he said. “We felt that we need to win (game 5). You don’t want to give them any life. We don’t want to go back here for the game 7. Obviously an increase of 3-1 at some point. It can take seven (game).
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