Dallas Stars vs. Winnipeg Jets Game 2 Prediction, NHL Playoff Odds
The Jets are -118 favourites for Game 2 on the NHL odds, with a total of 5.5 goals.
Stars vs. Jets NHL Betting Odds
With Winnipeg down 1-0 in the series after the 3-2 home loss in Game 1, Friday could be the Jets’ final home game of the season should they lose again and then head to Dallas for two games starting Sunday afternoon.
Dallas was a -160 series favourite entering Game 1 but is now -375 on the NHL futures board with Winnipeg at +300 (was +135). The co-favoured exact results at +300 are Stars in five and six. It was hard to forecast the series entering because both teams had some major injury questions and that remans the case, but I’d lean Dallas in six as things stand. To sweep, it is +360. In the “how many games” will the series last prop, six is the +210 leader.
We came fairly close to overtime in Game 1, and that there is one OT game in the series is +135, which I still lean, with none at +175. That there are no shutouts is -180, but I think one has some value at +220 because both American goalies in the Stars’ Jake Oettinger and Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck are excellent. That there are at least four goals scored in every game is -120 but at least five in each +220. Dallas to score at least two in every game is +145 and Winnipeg the same at +135.
The Stars’ Mikko Rantanen had a hat trick in Game 1, but there’s still a prop active on other players to get one in the series with the Jets’ Kyle Connor as the longer-shot favourite at +1050. Connor also is the +135 leader to be the player to get at least two goals in any game of the series, not including Rantanen. Mark Scheifele is next at +250 and then the Stars’ Roope Hintz at +400.
Dallas Stars
Dallas advanced to this round thanks to a Mikko Rantanen hat trick in Game 7 of the first round against his former Colorado team, and he followed that with another one in the 3-2 victory in Winnipeg in Game 1 on Wednesday in the first-ever playoff matchup between the franchises. Every goal from that game was in the second period. Rantanen is up to an NHL-best eight goals and 15 points this postseason after a very slow start. The Finn became the first player since Edmonton’s Jari Kurri with a hat trick in consecutive playoff games and third in NHL history.
Rantanen became the first player in Stars/North Stars playoff history with a natural hat trick and first player in Stanley Cup playoff history with multiple three-goal periods in the same postseason. No player has ever had three straight hat tricks in a postseason, and Rantanen is +7000 for one Friday. He has amazingly factored on 12 straight Dallas goals, the longest streak by any player in postseason history.
There was mixed injury news for the Stars in the opener. Regular-season goals leader Jason Robertson played for the first time in this postseason and was minus-1 with a shot on goal in 13:44. Excellent blueliner Miro Heiskanen has been out for months and didn’t make it back in Game 1 but is still expected in the series. Dallas is 11-24 all-time in road Game 2s.
Winnipeg Jets
Connor Hellebuyck looked better in Game 1 vs. Dallas then he did in almost all of the first-round series vs. St. Louis but couldn’t hold a 1-0 second-period lead Wednesday. Winnipeg’s goals came from Nino Niederreiter (third of playoffs) for the early lead and Mark Scheifele (also third), who had missed the previous two games injured.
Scheifele led all Jets players with seven shots on goal. Niederreiter became the second Swiss-born player in NHL history with 40 playoff points, following Nashville’s Roman Josi (45). Niederreiter also became the league’s first Swiss-born player to skate in 100 career postseason contests.
However, the Jets were thin on the blueline with Josh Morrissey and Logan Stanley both out. Morrissey was hurt in Game 7 vs. the Blues. Both are considered day-to-day. Winnipeg outshot Dallas 31-24 and outhit the Stars 46-24, so there were positives. The Jets are 2-5 all-time in home Game 2s.
DAL
WIN