Controversial Goal Helps Stars To Critical Win Over Jets In Stanley Cup Playoffs

The Dallas Stars took a 2-1 bid lead complete nan Winnipeg Jets successful nan Stanley Cup Playoffs connected Sunday nighttime aft a arguable extremity gave them a precocious lead successful Game 3.

Alexander Petrovic scored pinch 16:09 near successful nan game. However, nan extremity was not an easy 1 to call. NHL officials initiated a video reappraisal and watched nan sequences for much than 5 minutes to find whether Petrovic kicked nan puck into nan net.

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, #37, Alex Iafallo, #9, and Morgan Barron, #36, talk pinch linesman Jesse Marquis, #86, arsenic nan Dallas Stars observe a extremity scored by Alexander Petrovic successful nan 3rd play of Game 3 of a second-round NHL lucky playoff bid successful Dallas connected Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Eventually, nan officials wished Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck propelled nan puck into his ain net. The extremity gave Dallas a 3-2 lead astatine nan time. The Stars won nan game, 5-2.

Jets coach Scott Arniel took rumor pinch nan officials’ mentation of nan norm that allowed Petrovic.

"The norm states that if nan puck gets kicked, if it hits a assemblage aliases a instrumentality of anybody other different than nan goaltender, it counts arsenic a goal. It deed our goaltender’s instrumentality and went successful nan net. That is nary goal," Arniel said. "So they said that Helly propelled nan puck in, and I haven’t seen nan connection propelled successful nan rulebook."

Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, #37, lays by nan nett arsenic Dallas Stars' Sam Steel, #18, and nan remainder of nan statement observe a extremity scored by Alexander Petrovic, successful heap against nan boards, successful nan 3rd play of Game 3 of a second-round NHL lucky playoff bid successful Dallas connected Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Stars coach Peter DeBoer said he was gladsome officials took nan clip to reappraisal nan play to "get it right."

The puck initially came disconnected of a Mikko Rantanen shot. It ricocheted disconnected Hellebuyck to his correct and past disconnected of Petrovic’s liking and backmost toward nan net. 

"I saw him benignant of footwear it, but I didn’t spot a replay of it. ... I thought it was 50-50 probably, but convey God they called it a goal," Rantanen said.

Petrovic, who scored successful nan playoffs for nan first clip successful 9 years, called it a "lucky goal."

NHL fans were not enthused and expressed it arsenic overmuch connected X.

Rantanen scored 49 seconds aft play resumed.

Winnipeg Jets caput coach Scott Arniel, left, talks pinch referee Chris Rooney, #5, successful nan 3rd play of Game 3 of a second-round NHL lucky playoff bid against nan Dallas Stars successful Dallas connected Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Game 4 is group for Tuesday successful Dallas.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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