Jets grab series lead with 7-4 win over Predators

The Jets thought they took the lead with 6:14 left in the second period only to have the apparent goal by Andrew Copp immediately waved off. Rinne made the stop on Byflugien off a breakaway with Copp scoring off the rebound.

The Nashville Predators were the best team in hockey during the regular season but survived a late blown lead to avoid an 0-2 hole in round two thanks to their offense.

Despite all the interference, holding, high-sticking, cross-checking and hooking that wasn’t called – they were letting them play, as they say – the game settled down for nearly 14 minutes before Patrik Laine found a wide open Byfuglien. They have a chance to reverse course before heading back to Nashville.

Scheifele scored a pair of goals in each of the games at Nashville.

They call that the upper hand.

They were down 1-0 27 seconds into the game, trailed 3-2 after two periods, tied it, lost the lead again and tied it one more time with 1:05 left. The Jets pulled Hellebuyck to get an extra skater, and then ended up working as Mark Scheifele ended up scoring his fourth goal of the series and sent the game to overtime. “This is a tough building”. CNBC, CBC and TVA will air the game, which gets going at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 1.

“We just went out there and played a little bit faster and played with a little bit more confidence”.

The turnovers are a little alarming to me. Johansen answered 34 seconds later, skating around Jets defenseman Toby Enstrom and beating Hellebuyck top shelf.

Fiala also played the hero in the 2017 postseason, scoring the victor in Game 3 of their first-round series against the Chicago Blackhawks.

So would the missed call inside the final minute of the second period when Kyle Connor hooked Ryan Ellis to the ground as he got possession of the puck in the defensive zone. I remember when I was in college and Jerred Smithson scored an overtime goal against the Ducks in the playoffs. The Preds skill really shone through on this night …

The play of the top two lines were the key to last night’s win. Also scoring in the win was Ryan Johansen, who scored twice in the game and now has three in the postseason, P.K. Subban, which was his first of the playoffs and Viktor Arvidsson, which was his 3rd of the playoffs.

“Yeah. You play back a couple of chances throughout the whole game that you had”. Forsberg (73 points) has tallied 30 goals and 43 assists, and has recorded multiple points in 20 different games.

Then with the teams still playing 4-on-4, Trouba took a slick pass from Wheeler just 18 seconds later and the crowd erupted after his second of the postseason.

You may even get to see Byfuglien dance. There’s no question he’s one of the strongest and fiercest players in the league and when he’s defending his teammates he can be a monster … It was the first goal of the playoffs for Carrie Underwood’s husband. They’ve both been decent overall but they’re looking tentative around the net. Nashville then tied it, and the Jets finally won on a power-play goal by their captain. Showing the kind of resilience this team has been known for, locking down on defense and getting some really timely goaltending from Pekka Rinne. It was the Jets defensemen who outplayed the highly touted Predators d-men tonight. Four people had already died by the time Shaw got the gun away from the shooter.

The Predators flew into Winnipeg on Monday afternoon and the President’s Trophy winners were jubilant as they checked into their downtown hotel. They always play well here.

In Game 2 Laine had seven shots on goal, but all of those were from outside the faceoff dots except for one.