Reviewed goal irks Jets, helps Stars win Game 3

DALLAS -- Mikko Rantanen had a extremity and 2 assists, including 1 connected the tiebreaking extremity disconnected defenseman Alexander Petrovic's skate 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 looked astatine Petrovic's extremity for good implicit 5 minutes aft the NHL's concern country initiated a video reappraisal to find if helium kicked the puck into the nett for a 3-2 pb with 16:09 left. The last determination was that replays supported the referee's on-ice telephone that goalie Connor Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his ain net.

"At that point, you privation them to instrumentality arsenic overmuch clip arsenic they request to get it right," said Stars manager Pete DeBoer, adding that the mentation helium got was that Hellebuyck was trying to marque a play connected the puck.

Jets manager Scott Arniel surely didn't agree. "The regularisation states that if the puck gets kicked, if it hits a assemblage oregon a instrumentality of anybody other different than the goaltender, it counts arsenic a goal. It deed our goaltender's instrumentality and went successful the net. That is nary goal," helium said. "So they said that Helly propelled the puck in, and I haven't seen the connection propelled successful the rulebook."

Then lone 49 seconds aft play resumed, Rantanen scored his ninth extremity of the playoffs -- each coming successful the past six games.

For Petrovic, who has played has played successful each 10 postseason games aft lone 5 successful the regular play for the Stars, got his archetypal playoff extremity since 2016 for Florida.

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 postseason, 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 defenseman 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.

"Obviously I'm blessed to assistance the team, I'll effort to support doing that arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin connected some ends of the ice," said Rantanen, who was traded to the Stars connected March 7. "I'm conscionable trying to enactment successful the infinitesimal and adjacent keel aft wins and bully games."

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 with a 6.65 goals against mean successful roadworthy games this postseason aft giving up the 5 goals connected 26 shots.

Nino Niederreiter got Winnipeg adjacent astatine 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 halfway Colin Blackwell earlier making the walk for the score.

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 for Winnipeg connected a wraparound extremity that got nether Oettinger's extended glove.

"I don't deliberation (the game) got distant from us. We were close determination successful the game," Connor said. "One deciding extremity that whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium a extremity and we are close determination successful the game."

Game 4 is Tuesday nighttime successful Dallas.