The first round of the STANLEY 2025 Cup playoffs is officially underway.
The Winnipeg jets and the St. Louis blues were a minute and a half overtime when Kyle Connor brought Canada Life Center to his feet with a late winner on Saturday.
Later in the evening, a goal from Nathan Mackinnon Power-Play made the difference while the Colorado avalanche beat Dallas stars at the American Airlines Center.
Here is an overview of this evening results, the upcoming calendar and the best protruding facts of the matches on Saturday evening.
Results of the Stanley Cup qualifying series: Saturday April 19
Winnipeg Jets 5, St. Louis Blues 3 (WPG leads 1-0)
Colorado Avalanche 5, Dallas Stars 1 (Col leads 1-0)
Stanley Cup playoff schedule: Sunday April 20
New Jersey Devils at Carolina Hurricanes, match 1: 3 hours he
The Ottawa Senators in Toronto Maple Leafs, match 1: 7 a.m.
Minnesota Wild in Vegas Golden Knights, match 1: 10 a.m.
Jets of Winnipeg 5, St. Louis Blues 3
Winnipeg and Saint-Louis fans could be in a high score series.
Match 1 of the first round series started with a first period of four goals after Robert Thomas opened the scoring with a first power game goal.
The jets responded with two goals in two minutes.
Oskar Sundqvist again equalized the scoring after collecting a loose washer to the Netfront of the jets.
At the start of the second period, Jordan Kyrou chose the corner on a second period power game to put the blues forward.
Connor Hellebuyck, who had struggled at the start of the match, made a Kyrou on an escape less than a minute later to prevent the Blues from moving away by two goals.
During the third period, Mark Scheife’s work behind the net implemented Alex Iafallo to equalize the match.
The teams were less than two minutes from overtime when Connor put the team at home in mind with his late.
The emotions began to run high after the captain of the Jets Adam Lowry frozen victory with a late empty net.
The jets could try to take a 2-0 series lead on Monday when the washer falls for match 2 in Winnipeg.
Colorado Avalanche 5, Dallas Stars 1
The stars, missing from the High defender Miro Heiskanen and the top scorer Jason Robertson, had trouble solving the goalkeeper Mackenzie Blackwood during his beginnings in the playoffs.
Dallas started the strong game by killing more than a minute and a half of a two-men’s drawback in the first period.
At the start of the second executive, Blackwood put aside an opportunity at close range of Wyatt Johnston a few moments before the opening of the AVS with a washer that died off the Patin of Arturi Lehkonen.
The tide was definitely defined towards an AVS victory when Roope Hintz took a double minor for Nathan Mackinnon high speed of Nathan Mackinnon.
Mackinnon answered by sending the second goal of the avalanche night to bounce back on a star defender and in the net.
Dallas reduced AVS’s advances on a power game at the start of the third period, when Hintz redirected a Thomas Harley in front of Blackwood.
The stars pushed for a link, but Blackwood withdrew them until Devon Toews finished an AVS rush by changing a Josh Manson fired at home.
Mackinnon put the match out of reach with an empty network, and Charlie Coyle also pushed the advance with a late goal.
Stars even turn to the series when the AVs are returned to Dallas for match 2 Monday at 9:30 p.m. he.
