Connor Hellbuke on Thursday saved 22 savings to help Vinypeg Jets survive in his Western Conference semi-final series with a 4–0 win against Dallas Stars in Game 5.
The stars took a 3–2 lead in the best-seven series for Game 6 on Saturday in Dallas on Saturday.
Helebuke has two shutouts in the series, five in his postsen career and 50 in total.
Their house shutout streak increased to 143: 22.
Nicolaj Ehlers scored two goals, Mark Sheffifel had a goal and one aid, Vladislav Namastanikov also scored and Kyle Connor and Neil Pionac gave two assistance to each for jets, which were loss in the game 3 and 4 in Dallas.
Jake Otner made 31 saves for stars, which was excluded 4–0 in Game 2.
Jates, after leaving the stars behind 11–4, in the first period, Helbuke saved a glove from the Dallas Defenseman Thomas Harley nearly a glove in the early minutes of the second period and later examined a poke on Wet Johnson’s drive.
Connor then recovered the Pak and passed with the pioneer, as they ran through all three areas. Connor then passed a trailing Sheiple, who took a shot from the right circle cutting Johnson’s stick, closed Harley’s skate and in his own trap to give Jets a 1-0 lead at 6:17.
This was the only shot of Vinypeg through the first 13 minutes of the second period.
The Jets series had 1 -for -18 on power play, when Dallas tripped the tripping penalty in 11 seconds in the third period at 11 seconds.
Jets scored 30 seconds in two-man Advantage, when Ehlers received a pass on the edge of the net and skated the puck from a distant 2–0 lead at 2:20 before firing.
Vinypeg added another power-play round with 7:53 remaining in the game. Alex Eyapolo made a backhand pass for Namastanikov from under the goal line, cutting through the right circle. Namastanikov scored with one-time.
Ehlers scored in an empty mesh with 45 seconds.
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