The Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights are on the identical crossroads, going through 2-1 deficits forward of street playoff video games Monday.
First up on the schedule is Capitals-Carolina Hurricanes (7 p.m. ET, TNT), adopted by Golden Knights-Edmonton Oilers (9:30 p.m. ET, TNT).
Learn on for recreation previews with statistical insights from ESPN Analysis, a recap of what went down in Sunday’s video games and the Three Stars of Sunday from Arda Öcal.
Matchup notes
Washington Capitals at Carolina Hurricanes
Sport 4 | 7 p.m. ET | TNT
With a 2-1 sequence lead, the Canes at the moment are -650 favorites to win this sequence, whereas the Capitals are +425. Carolina has additionally jumped to second within the Stanley Cup futures desk, at +350, whereas the Capitals at the moment are +2500.
That is the second straight sequence wherein the Canes led 2-1 (they beat the Devils in 5 video games in Spherical 1). Carolina/Hartford is 9-4 all time in best-of-seven sequence when main 2-1.
Sport 3 was the Canes’ first playoff shutout win since Sport 2 of the 2022 second spherical towards the Rangers. It was the Caps’ first shutout loss since Sport 5 of the 2020 first spherical towards the Islanders.
Frederik Andersen’s shutout was the fourth of his playoff profession, however his first postseason clear sheet as a Hurricane. He joins Cam Talbot as the one energetic goalies with a playoff shutout for 3 completely different franchises.
Andrei Svechnikov now has six objectives this postseason, which is the seventeenth occasion of a Hurricanes/Whalers participant scoring six or extra objectives in a single postseason.
The 4 objectives allowed by Logan Thompson in Sport 3 have been greater than his mixed objectives towards in Video games 1 and a pair of, and essentially the most since Sport 3 of the primary spherical towards Montreal (5).
Vegas Golden Knights at Edmonton Oilers
Sport 4 | 9:30 p.m. ET | TNT
The Oilers’ and Knights’ sequence odds contracted after Vegas’ Sport 3 win. Edmonton is now -250 to win, whereas Vegas is +200 to take action. The Oilers have the third-shortest Cup futures odds at +360, whereas the Knights are third longest at +1000.
Vegas’ Reilly Smith was credited with the profitable objective in Sport 3 with 0.4 seconds left on the clock after the puck angled in off Leon Draisaitl’s stick. It goes within the report books as being scored with one second left within the third interval — tied for the most recent go-ahead objective in regulation in Stanley Cup playoff historical past with Colorado’s Nazem Kadri in 2020 and Carolina’s Jussi Jokinen in 2009.
Jack Eichel enters Sport 4 using an energetic six-game help streak, which is tied for the Golden Knights’ postseason report. Mark Stone (2023) and Smith (2018) additionally completed the feat.
Connor McDavid now has 40 profession playoff objectives; he is the seventh Oilers participant to succeed in that benchmark.
Edmonton’s Corey Perry scored two objectives within the first interval of Sport 3, changing into the third-oldest participant in Stanley Cup playoff historical past with a multigoal interval; at 39 years, 359 days outdated, he’s behind Nicklas Lidstrom (41) and Teemu Selanne (40) on the time they’d a multigoal interval in a playoff recreation.
Öcal’s Three Stars from Sunday
The reigning Stanley Cup champions performed their finest recreation of the postseason. They restricted the Maple Leafs to 22 photographs on objective, owned the impartial zone, and peppered Toronto’s Joseph Woll with 37 photographs en path to a 2-0 win. (Small shoutout to Woll, who performed nice — this recreation may’ve simply been 8-0.)
With a objective and two assists in Sport 3, Rantanen grew to become the primary participant in Stanley Cup playoffs historical past with 5 three-point video games by a workforce’s first 10 contests. His first of these video games was in Sport 5 of the primary spherical.
Bobrovsky did not have the busiest evening of his playoff profession, however he stopped all 22 photographs on objective, his fifth profession postseason clear sheet.
Sunday’s recaps
Dallas Stars 5, Winnipeg Jets 2
DAL leads 2-1 | Sport 4 Tuesday
The Stars returned house having earned home-ice benefit within the sequence with a break up of the primary two video games in Winnipeg, and from the beginning of this one, they appeared like they didn’t need to give it again. Dallas’ Roope Hintz scored 2:27 in on an influence play, and whereas Kyle Connor answered halfway by the primary, Thomas Harley responded thereafter, giving Dallas a 2-1 edge after the primary. Nino Niederreiter scored his fourth objective of the playoffs to knot the sport at two, however then the third interval was all Stars. Alexander Petrovic and Mikko Rantanen scored inside 50 seconds of one another, and Wyatt Johnston put the exclamation level on the competition with a objective at 14:06. Full recap.
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Tempers flare late after Max Domi’s massive hit on Aleksander Barkov
Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov is shaken up after taking successful from Max Domi late within the recreation.
Florida Panthers 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 0
Collection tied 2-2 | Sport 5 Wednesday
It is right down to a best-of-three for the Atlantic Division crown. Carter Verhaeghe kicked off the scoring for the Panthers at 15:45 of the primary, and the 1-0 rating would persist till 12:09 of the third, when Sam Bennett added his fifth of the postseason to make it 2-0. That was greater than sufficient for Sergei Bobrovsky, who saved all 23 photographs the Maple Leafs despatched on objective. Joseph Woll was no slouch within the Leafs’ cage, both, saving 35 of 37. Tempers flared late within the recreation after Toronto’s Max Domi boarded Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov and a small melee ensued. Will that carry over into Sport 5? Full recap.
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Wyatt Johnston pokes in Stars’ third objective of third interval
Wyatt Johnston faucets in a objective for the Stars to pad their lead within the third interval vs. the Jets.
