Stanley Cup playoffs daily: Pivotal Game 3 in Jets-Stars, Game 4 for Leafs-Panthers

The Dallas Stars and Winnipeg Jets began their second-round showdown a spot down the different series, which is wherefore they're the past teams to play their respective Game 3. That matchup is acceptable to transpire Sunday day (4:30 p.m. ET, TBS), followed by a crippled nary little important betwixt the Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers astatine a much accepted clip (7:30 p.m. ET, TBS).

Which of the 2 Central teams volition spell up 2-1? And tin the Panthers necktie things up with the Leafs aft Brad Marchand's OT heroics successful Game 3?

Read connected for game previews with statistical insights from ESPN Research, a recap of what went down successful Saturday's games and the Three Stars of Saturday from Arda Öcal.

Matchup notes

Winnipeg Jets astatine Dallas Stars
Game 3 | 4:30 p.m. ET | TBS

With each squad taking 1 crippled of the bid successful Winnipeg, ESPN BET has updated the bid likelihood heading into Game 3 successful Dallas; the Stars are presently favored (-170) to triumph the series, with the Jets astatine +140 to advance. The Stars person the second-shortest likelihood to triumph the Stanley Cup (+400), portion the Jets' are third-longest (+900).

With his 22-save shutout successful Game 2, Winnipeg's Connor Hellebuyck earned postseason blanking No. 4 of his career. He became the sixth goaltender successful NHL past to relationship for the archetypal 4 playoff shutouts successful a franchise's history.

Nikolaj Ehlers has tally blistery and acold arsenic a playoff extremity scorer for the Jets; helium scored 2 successful Game 2, which was his 2nd vocation multigoal postseason game. In betwixt this 1 and the 1 prior, helium went 14 playoff games with zero goals.

Mikko Rantanen's streak of 5 consecutive multipoint playoff games ended successful Game 2, arsenic helium registered 1 changeable connected extremity for Dallas and a minus-1 standing successful 21:42 of crystal time. He's presently tied with Toronto's William Nylander for the playoff scoring lead, with 15 points, and is archetypal among extremity scorers, with eight.

Game 2 was the 2nd clip the Stars person been unopen retired this postseason. The archetypal was Game 4 successful the archetypal round, astatine Colorado. The adjacent game? A location win, successful which they scored six goals.

Toronto Maple Leafs astatine Florida Panthers
Game 4 | 7:30 p.m. ET | TBS

After the Panthers won a thriller successful Game 3, ESPN BET has the Leafs astatine -125 to triumph the series, with the Panthers astatine +105. Both teams are close successful the mediate of the Cup futures mix, with the Panthers somewhat ahead; Florida is +550 and Toronto is +600.

With his overtime crippled victor successful Game 3, the Panthers' Brad Marchand extended his ain NHL grounds for consecutive postseasons with a game-winning goal, a streak that goes backmost to 2017. Marchand's 4 vocation playoff OT goals is seventh each time.

Have we seen the existent mentation of "Playoff Bob" yet? Sergei Bobrovsky is sixth among 8 regular goaltenders that made Round 2 with a 2.94 goals-against average, and sixth successful the aforesaid cohort with a .875 prevention percentage. Those rates were 2.33 and .906, respectively, during the Panthers' Stanley Cup tally past year.

Maple Leafs halfway John Tavares scored 2 goals successful Game 3, which was his 4th vocation multigoal playoff crippled and 2nd successful his vocation against the Panthers; the erstwhile multigoal crippled against Florida was successful 2016 portion Tavares was with the New York Islanders.

With each extremity that Morgan Rielly scores, helium extends his franchise pb for playoff goals by a defenseman. Rielly present has 15 for his career, up of second-place Ian Turnbull with 13.

Öcal's Three Stars from Saturday

1. The last seconds

We saw it again connected Saturday night. You ne'er cognize what's going to hap successful a Stanley Cup playoff crippled -- adjacent a Leon Draisaitl ain extremity with 1 2nd near that was headed for overtime.

2. Reilly Smith
RW, Vegas Golden Knights

Smith scored 2 goals -- 1 of his own, and credited for the game-winning ain extremity disconnected of Draisaitl's instrumentality -- successful Vegas' 4-3 win. He and Nicolas Roy scored 54 seconds isolated successful the archetypal play to adjacent the people astatine 2-2, which marked the fastest Vegas has flooded a multi-goal shortage successful franchise playoff history.

3. Jack Roslovic
C, Carolina Hurricanes

Roslovic finished with 2 points, including his 3rd vocation postseason extremity arsenic the Canes dismantled the Caps 4-0 to instrumentality a 2-1 bid lead.

Saturday's recaps

Carolina Hurricanes 4, Washington Capitals 0
CAR leads 2-1 | Game 4 Monday

Following a scoreless archetypal play with a fewer superb scoring chances for some teams, the Hurricanes got connected the committee doubly successful the second, courtesy of Andrei Svechnikov and Jack Roslovic. That was each the Canes needed, arsenic their relentless antiaircraft unit successful each 3 zones prevented the Caps from mounting overmuch of immoderate onslaught successful the third. Eric Robinson added a see-eye changeable implicit Logan Thompson's near enarthrosis and Jackson Blake closed things retired with a power-play tally. But this nighttime was each astir Frederik Andersen earning his 4th vocation shutout (and archetypal with the Canes). Full recap.

Golden Knights 4, Oilers 3
EDM leads 2-1 | Game 4 Monday

Finally, the Golden Knights are connected the committee -- and it took to the precise past infinitesimal for them to propulsion disconnected the stunning triumph successful Edmonton. But first, it was savvy Oilers seasoned Corey Perry scoring 2 to enactment the hosts up 2-0 successful the first. Undeterred, the Knights scored 2 earlier the play ended to necktie the contention 2-2. William Karlsson's second-period people enactment Vegas up 3-2, a people that would clasp until 16:58 of the 3rd erstwhile Connor McDavid tied it astatine 3 each. Then, successful the precise last 2nd of regulation, Reilly Smith changeable the puck toward the Edmonton goal, wherever it was tipped successful by Oilers halfway Leon Draisaitl. Game, Vegas. Full recap.