{"id":539070,"date":"2026-04-03T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:25:01","slug":"jets-unable-to-gain-ground-after-being-blanked-by-oettinger-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539070\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets unable to gain ground after being blanked by Oettinger, Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season in a matchup of Team USA Olympic goaltenders and rookie Arttu Hyry had a goal in his first multipoint NHL game as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/dallas-stars\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"dallas-stars\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> 3-0 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Erne also had a goal and an assist and Matt Duchene also scored for the Stars, who opened a five-game homestand that will close their home season. They are second in both the Central Division and the overall league standings, coming off a 1-2-1 road trip with only one regulation win in their previous 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger was an Olympic backup while Winnipeg\u2019s Connor Hellebuyck backstopped Team USA to the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger has 31 wins, third in the NHL, with his first shutout since Dec. 3. In his previous five starts, he was 1-2-1 plus a no-decision when he was pulled after allowing four first-period goals.<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck, who stopped 18 shots, is 20-21-11 after posting a career-high 47 wins last season while winning his third Vezina Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Duchene and Hyry scored 89 seconds apart midway through the first period to put Dallas ahead 2-0. Duchene collected his own rebound off the outside of the net behind the goal line and banked it off Hellebuyck. It was a power-play score for the NHL\u2019s best home power play.<\/p>\n<p>Hyry had the secondary assist on Erne\u2019s deflection early in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas led after one period for the first time in six games and improved to 22-4-3 when in that position.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars went 4-0 in the season series, their first sweep of the Jets since the franchise moved from Atlanta in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>With multiple forwards sidelined with injuries, Dallas played 11 and seven defencemen.<\/p>\n<p>Stars: Host league-leading Colorado on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jets: Finish a four-game road trip on Saturday night at Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season in a matchup of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539071,"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-539070","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\/116342654569655945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539070","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=539070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}