With the Jets on a 5-on-3 power play, Ehlers made it 2-0 at 2:20 of the third period when he curled a shot around Oettinger from in close and scored off the inside of the far post.
“We don’t want to be done playing hockey and today showed that,” Ehlers said. “We’ve just got to take that to the next game … We want to go to Dallas and win that game. And like I’ve said, these fans, it’s been so special to play here in front of this crowd and we want to repay them by coming back and playing a Game 7 here.”
Namestnikov pushed it to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 12:07 of the third, tucking the puck under the crossbar with a wrist shot from the slot.
“Listen, they won the Presidents’ Trophy, right?” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said of Winnipeg. “That’s a really good team. We do have a great opportunity to go home and win this at home. We did what we had to do, which is win one game in here (Game 1) in order to give us this opportunity of this elimination game (on home ice), and if not, we’ll have to come back in here and win another one.”
Said Dallas forward Tyler Seguin: “They’re good at home. We won one (in Winnipeg) earlier, we had a chance there tonight. We were right in it despite the shots, and however it may have felt to the eye, we felt we were right in it. [Oettinger] was playing great. Just didn’t get that equalizer.”
Ehlers scored his second goal of the period into an empty net at 19:15 for the 4-0 final.
“I didn’t think it was a horrible game by us,” Duchene said. “They got one 5-on-3, another one on the power play, 4-on-4. We didn’t give up anything 5-on-5. We had some looks, Hellebuyck played really well. That’s the way it goes. We knew this wasn’t going to be easy. We knew they weren’t going to roll over on us. We’re going to Dallas here and see if we can end it.”
NOTES: Winnipeg is a League-best 6-1 at home in these playoffs. … Scheifele’s third career goal in a potential elimination game is the most in Jets/Atlanta Thrashers history. … Hellebuyck has five career playoff shutouts, and has multiple shutouts in a series for the second time in his career (also two in the 2018 first round). Only two other U.S.-born goaltenders in NHL history have posted multiple shutouts in two series: Tim Thomas (two in both the 2011 Conference Final and Stanley Cup Final) and Mike Richter (two in both the 1997 Conference Semi-Finals and 1994 Conference Quarter-Finals). … Hellebuyck is the first goaltender in Jets/Thrashers history with a shutout while facing elimination.
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