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Dallas Stars took a 2-1 series lead over the Winnipeg Jets in the Stanley Cup playoffs on Sunday night after a controversial goal gave them a late lead in Game 3.
Alexander Petrovic scored with 16:09 back in the game. However, the goal was not easy to call. NHL officials started a video review and saw the sequences for more than five minutes to determine if Petrovic kicked the puck into the net.
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Winnipeg Jets-goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck, #37, Alex Iafallo, #9, and Morgan Barron, #36, talking with Linjeman Jesse Marquis, #86, as the Dallas stars celebrate a goal scored by Alexander Petrovic in the third period of Game 3 of another Round Nhl Hocky Playoff-Serie May 11, 202. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Eventually, the officials of Jets -goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck, the puck in his own network, decided. The goal gave Dallas a 3-2 lead at the time. The stars won the game, 5-2.
Jets coach Scott Arniel questioned the officials’ interpretation of the rule that enabled Petrovic.
“The rule says that if the puck is kicked if it hits a body or a stick of anyone other than the goalkeeper, it counts as a goal. It hit our goaltender’s stick and went into the net. That’s no goal,” Arniel said. “So they said Helly propelled the puck in and I haven’t seen the word propelled in the rulebook.”
Winnipeg Jets goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck, #37, is located on the net as Dallas Stars’ Sam Steel, #18, and the rest of the line celebrates a goal scored by Alexander Petrovic, in the pile against the boards, in the third period in Game 3 of another round of NHL Hockey Playoff Series in Dallas on Sunday 11 May, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Stars coach Peter Deboer said he was glad that officials took the time to review the play to “get it right.”
The puck originally came out of a Mikko Rantan shot. It ricocheted by Hellebuyck to his right side and then out of Petrovic’s share and back to the net.
“I saw him kind of kick it, but I didn’t see a repetition of it. … I thought it was 50-50 probably, but thanks God, they called it a goal,” Rantan said.
Petrovic, who scored in the playoffs for the first time in nine years, called it a “lucky goal.”
NHL fans were not thrilled and expressed it so much on X.
The Rantan scored 49 seconds after the game resumed.
Winnipeg Jet’s main coach Scott Arniel, Left, talks to Judge Chris Rooney, #5, in the third period in Game 3 of another round of NHL Hockey Playoff series against Dallas Stars in Dallas Sunday 11 May 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Game 4 is set for Tuesday in Dallas.
