{"id":540095,"date":"2026-04-04T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:19:38","slug":"stars-3-0-jets-apr-2-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540095\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars 3-0 Jets (Apr 2, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4196914\/jake-oettinger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Oettinger<\/a> made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season in a matchup of Team USA Olympic goaltenders and rookie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5209793\/arttu-hyry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arttu Hyry<\/a> had a goal in his first multipoint NHL game as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wpg\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> 3-0 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3041991\/adam-erne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Erne<\/a> also had a goal and an assist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5161\/matt-duchene\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Duchene<\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3020225\/connor-hellebuyck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> 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 defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/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<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8212; \u2014 Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season in a matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-540095","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\/116346172644198093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540095","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=540095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}