Dallas – It is a final revenge match of the Western Conference.
Thomas Harley scored a power game goal at 1:33 extension to give Dallas stars a 2-1 victory over the Winnipeg jets in match 6 of the second round series. The goal gave the stars a victory in the 4-2 series and returned them to the final of the conference, where they will face Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and the Oilers of Edmonton for the second consecutive spring.
The stars never seem to make the task and the match 6 is no exception. Despite a completely dominant first period, they found themselves down 1-0 at the start of the second period when Mark Scheife of Winnipeg – just hours after the death of his father, Brad – slipped a rebound from Kyle Connor between Jake Oettinger’s pads for an emotional and inspiring objective.
But Dallas is as well equipped to manage the wild emotional oscillations of the hockey playoffs as any western team, and it turned out to be again in match 6, while Sam Steel was beating Connor Hellebuyck with a single time increasing a rebound from Thomas Harley to attach it less than six minutes later.
And before Harley could win the match, Oettinger had to save the game. He did it at 11:28 from the third period, when Adam Lowry sent a cross pass to Mason Appleton, who had a cage based to shoot. But Appleton did not quite understand, and Oettinger made a spectacular dive at his right to keep the washer off the net. Appleton put his hands on his head with disbelief.
“We have a mature group,” said the stars coach, Pete Deboer, who will not have to put his astonishing 9-0 record in game 7 in play. “We have an altered and tested combat group that has already crossed them before. They understand (that) to waste energy in an excessive manner in the high or stockings in the eliminatory series is not useful. Room, having been long -term.
Oettinger made 22 stops to take over Hellebuyck, which made 18 stops.
The jets, the winners of the presidents trophy, ended their season with their 10th consecutive loss of the playoff series.
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SCHEIFEL SCORES
Scheifele was already the main scenario of the night, due to the tragedy. He became the man of the moment by burying a rebound goal which raised the jets to an advance of 1-0 in the second period.
Scheifele slipped behind Alex Petrovic to finish Kyle Connor’s rebound attempt just over five minutes after the start of the period.
This one was for dad đŸ’™ pic.twitter.com/gi5zj2megd
– Winnipeg jets (@nhljet) May 18, 2025
“Mark will play tonight,” said Scott Arniel before the match. “As he said, it would be the wishes of his father. He wanted him to play … he is with us, and Mark really wants to play for him.”
It was an appropriate goal, a moment of tribute that the world of whole hockey – Save Dallas, perhaps – could celebrate.
Dallas has marked its objective in overtime with 13 seconds to play on the TrĂ©bunge de Scheife penalty, which prevented a breakaway. When he got out of the penalty surface, Scheife’s teammates huddled around him, hugging him at the start of the handful handles.
Erect opportunities
At the end of the first period, the stars had a ridiculous edge of 15-1 in the chances of scoring and an advance of 6-0 in high chances of danger, by trick of natural statistics. And yet the score was 0-0. Not only that, Dallas had only six shots on goal. How? The stars simply couldn’t hit the net.
In a dominant but sloppy and downright bizarre opening period, Dallas should probably have to mark a handful of goals. But Wyatt Johnston failed to finish an enveloping when he had beaten Hellebuyck. Evgenii Dadonov – who played as if his hair was on fire – missed the net twice on Grade A looks. Tyler Seguin sent a large backhander after having set up for a wide net to shoot (to be fair, Schenn managed to hinder and increase the degree of difficulty). And it is only a small sample of wasted opportunities.
Dallas had 24 shooting attempts during the period, and missed the net out of 11 of them, with seven others blocked. And the few chances that reached the net – like Matt Duchene’s chronometer from a Flow of Mikko Rantanen – were arrested by Hellebuyck. Winnipeg was extremely lucky to enter the changing rooms itself.
As would be expected, after all these missed opportunities for Dallas, Winnipeg went up to the board of directors at the start of the second on the goal of Scheife’s rebound.
Hellebuyck shines
Hellebuyck kept Winnipeg in the game through the first dominant period of the stars, but saved her best job for the third period.
The jets left Rantanen, of everyone, all alone at a minute from the third period, free to attack Hellebuyck from the right wing and in the slit. Rantanen went forehand, back, forehand, stretching Hellebuyck at the limit, but Winnipeg’s goalkeeper obtained his right skating on Rantanen’s shooting.
While the minutes go out and the match turned into a scenario of “next goal”, the stars tilted the ice in favor of Dallas, leaping on bad coverage and a Luke Schenn gift to create a pair of chances for Mikael Granlund.
Hellebuyck extended her left cushion just in time to stop the Granlund’s attempt from the Low slit, then covered the rebound effort that followed her.
Jets lose Morrissey because of the injury
The Josh Morrissey of the Jets left match 6 at the end of the second period and did not return after having crashed into the boards with Rantanen.
Rantanen fell on the left leg of Morrissey, the awkward folding while the two players crashed on the ice. Morrissey rose under his own power and finished his quarter of work but left the ice as soon as Hellebuyck covered the washer. He held his left knee with his left glove on the ice road, then had trouble getting weight on his left leg on his path next to the ice.
Josh Morrissey went down the tunnel after a scary game in the end of the jets pic.twitter.com/cqz3sicd4s
– Sportsnet (@Sportnetnet) May 18, 2025
It was the second end of the end of the end of the Morrissey eliminatory series. He also left match 7 against Saint-Louis in the first period, watching the victory in double extension of Winnipeg of the Touche.
The jets forced overtime without Morrissey, once again, but this time, they ended their season.
Put away the whistles
In what was perhaps the most severe and physical game in the series, the officials were content to let almost everything. There was no penalty called in the first 19 minutes, 45 seconds (other than a delayed stopover that was canceled by Scheife’s objective), even if there were almost certainly penalties committed.
The more clearly it has become that the line was fundamentally nonexistent, the two teams have joyfully started to cross it – in particular the jets, which were credited with 54 strokes in series, more than double the total stars of 26. Scheife alone had nine strokes.
The officials pulled the wrath of the crowd when a series of boundary pieces by the jets took place. First, Morrissey swept away Rantanen’s leg and then pulled him on the game on which he was injured. Then Duchene was hit from behind in the corner by Lowry. Shortly after, Marchment – which is unlikely to obtain the benefit of the doubt after his frustrated slash of referee Graham Skiniter in match 3 – was triggered by Schenn.
Finally, with 14.8 seconds to play in the third period, Scheifele stumbled on steel to prevent a breakaway – the managers decided not to ask for a penalty shot – putting Dallas on the power game for the start of overtime. This led to Harley’s goal to the brand 1:33.
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