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 WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Right winger
Rickard Rakell scored on a deflection at 5:12 of overtime Monday
night to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 5-4 victory over the Winnipeg
Jets and a stranglehold on their first-round Western Conference
playoff series.
The Ducks have a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series after Rakell
redirected defenseman Francois Beauchemin's point blast for the
winner.
For the third straight game in the series, the Jets owned a one-goal
lead to begin the third period -- this time 4-3 -- but couldn't
protect it.
Ducks center Ryan Kesler scored the tying goal at 17:46 after taking
a pass from right winger Jakob Silfverberg and beating Jets goalie
Ondrej Pavelec.
Wild 3, Blues 0
SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota's top line of left winger Zach
Parise, center Mikael Granlund and right winger Jason Pominville
combined to score two goals late in the second period, leading the
Wild to a win over St. Louis and a 2-1 lead in the teams'
first-round Western Conference playoff series.
Parise and Pominville each had a goal and an assist, and Granlund
had two assists. Minnesota goalie Devan Dubnyk made 17 saves for his
first career playoff shutout. Right winger Nino Niederreiter added
an empty-net goal.
The Blues got a 21-save performance from goalie Jake Allen, but were
frustrated offensively all night and lost their ninth consecutive
playoff road game.
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Rangers 2, Penguins 1
PITTSBURGH -- New York built a two-goal lead, then held on for a win
over Pittsburgh to take a 2-1 lead in their first-round Eastern
Conference playoff series.
Left winger Carl Hagelin scored on a breakaway in the first period,
and center Chris Kreider scored in the second period for a 2-0 New
York lead.
Right winger Patric Hornqvist broke up a potential shutout for
Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist with a third-period goal.
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