{"id":538086,"date":"2026-04-03T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:47:11","slug":"oettinger-makes-22-saves-stars-shut-out-jets-to-gain-in-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538086\/","title":{"rendered":"Oettinger makes 22 saves, Stars shut out Jets to gain in Central"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arttu Hyry<\/a> and Adam Erne<\/a>\u00a0each had a goal and an assist for the Stars (45-19-12), who are 2-4-2 in their past eight games.<\/p>\n

Dallas is in second place in the Central Division, six points behind the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think no matter what we put out there tonight, we were all ready to turn the page on what\u2019s been going on lately and get going in the right direction before the playoffs,\u201d Erne said. \u201cWhen you go to the playoffs, you can\u2019t just flip a switch and get going. It\u2019s something you have to build towards. I think we want to finish these last seven games or so and put ourselves in a spot here where we\u2019re happy with our game come Game 1 of the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> made 18 saves for the Jets (32-31-12), who had won four of five and are 6-3-2 in their past 11.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg is three points behind the San Jose Sharks for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t like our first two periods. I know the first period, they got the couple ones on the power play and then we turned the puck over and gave them the second one. We didn\u2019t have enough compete, we didn\u2019t have enough guys getting our nose over the puck and being heavy on it. Our execution wasn\u2019t great,\u201d Jets coach Scott Arniel said. \u201cThird period, we went out and decided we were going to do that stuff and, you know, I know it was a 3-0 game at the time, but that\u2019s how we have to be for the early parts of the game. Like we\u2019ve done against Colorado, like we\u2019ve done against Vegas and other teams. We\u2019ve come out and played hard and heavy. We didn\u2019t do it early on enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Duchene<\/a> opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 9:43 of the first period. After his initial shot was stopped by Hellebuyck, the rebound bounced off the end boards back to Duchene, who then put the puck in off Hellebuyck’s right hip from below the goal line to the left of the net.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got the power-play goal and another quick one right after. We talked about getting off to a better start in Chicago, but I think just managing pucks, getting pucks on the forecheck, I thought they did a really good job of breaking pucks out. We were a little slower breaking pucks out and they came with a lot of pressure and we didn’t really have great skate screens and a lot of low support. They are a good team and they make it tough to generate offense,\u201d Winnipeg captain Adam Lowry<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cI liked the pushback and the compete in the third but we have just got to do a better job of establishing a forecheck and directing some pucks at the net and finishing some plays low and if they are not there, not being too stubborn and putting some [pucks] to the goalie\u2019s feet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arttu Hyry and Adam Erne\u00a0each had a goal and an assist for the Stars (45-19-12), who are 2-4-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-538086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116339437991962489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}