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2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Round Two Open Thread- May 11/25

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LAST NIGHT'S ACTION

CAROLINA HURRICANES 4 WASHINGTON CAPITALS 0 (Canes lead series 2-1)

Home ice has been good to Carolina all season long, and that was no exception last night as they regained the series lead with a 4-0 win over the Capitals. After Andrei Svechnikov's goal midway through the first, the Canes used depth scoring to seal the deal as they got goals from Eric Robinson, Jackson Blake and former Canuck Jack Roslovic. Freddy Andersen had 21 saves for the shutout. Game Four goes Monday night in Raleigh.

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4 EDMONTON OILERS 3 (Oilers lead series 2-1)

After taking both games in Vegas, you have to think that the Edmonton Oilers were feeling pretty confident. And in Game Three, at home, they jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, then saw Vegas' Mark Stone leave the game with an injury. All good, right? Wrong. Why? Stuart Skinner, that's why!

The Golden Knights would battle back, with Nicholas Roy and Riley Smith scoring late in the first, then took the lead in the second on a beauty from William Karlsson. The Oilers weren't done, and Connor McDavid banked one in off Brayden McNabb's skate with 3:02 left to send it to overtime. And then... Stuart Skinner!

What an absolutely brutal way to lose a game, and it's literally like a masterpiece. Karlsson starts the rush with around ten seconds left, and gets the puck deep, retrieving it and throwing it into the slot where Riley Smith takes it. He fakes out Darnell Nurse and Connor McDavid, then goes to the side where he goes around Skinner who is at least a body length out of the crease. He fires the puck into the crease, for the easy tap in by... Leon Draisaitl? And it enters the net with 0.4 seconds left on the clock. The third latest winning goal in Stanley Cup history, and one that absolutely changes this series. Before this game, there was discussion of a possible Oilers sweep. Now we wonder how they're ever going to recover, and if they're stuck with Skinner if Calvin Pickard can't go for Game Four. You love to see it.

CANADA (2-0-0-0) 7 LATVIA (1-0-0-1) 1

Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 16 of 17 shots as Canada cruised to their second straight win at the 2025 IIHF Worlds in Stockholm this morning. Travis Konecny and Kent Johnson each scored a pair, and Sidney Crosby had three helpers including one from Macklin Celebrini, Nathan MacKinnon's first period marker from Bo Horvat was the winner in this one. They'll take on France Tuesday afternoon in Group A play.

TODAY'S ACTION

WINNIPEG JETS (1-1) vs DALLAS STARS (1-1)

AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA, DALLAS, TX

1:30 PM PST/ 4:30 PM EST

TV: SPORTSNET, CBC

The Jets hope that they can continue their strong play coming off what was easily their most impressive outing of the postseason and take the lead in this series for the first time. To do so they'll need to replicate a lot of what they did in Game Two, and that's playing a solid two way game, giving Connor Hellebuyck the help he needs. Dallas didn't mount much of anything in the way of threats in that game, thanks to the Jets forechecking hard and keeping the pressure on Mikko Rantanen and the Stars.

JETS (C1) at STARS (C2)

Western Conference Second Round, Game 3

4:30 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TBS, SN, TVAS, CBC

Best-of-7 series tied 1-1

Jets projected lineup

Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Gabriel Vilardi

Nikolaj Ehlers -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Cole Perfetti

Nino Niederreiter -- Adam Lowry -- Mason Appleton

Brandon Tanev -- Morgan Barron -- Alex Iafallo

Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo

Dylan Samberg -- Neal Pionk

Haydn Fleury -- Colin Miller

Connor Hellebuyck

Eric Comrie

Scratched: Dominic Toninato, David Gustafsson, Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Luke Schenn, Ville Heinola

Injured: Rasmus Kupari (concussion), Logan Stanley (undisclosed)

Stars projected lineup

Mikael Granlund -- Roope Hintz -- Mikko Rantanen

Jamie Benn -- Matt Duchene -- Tyler Seguin

Mason Marchment-- Wyatt Johnston -- Jason Robertson

Oskar Back -- Sam Steel -- Evgenii Dadonov

Thomas Harley -- Ilya Lyubushkin

Esa Lindell -- Cody Ceci

Lian Bichsel -- Alexander Petrovic

Jake Oettinger

Casey DeSmith

Scratched: Mavrik Bourque, Colin Blackwell, Mathew Dumba, Brendan Smith

Injured: Miro Heiskanen (knee), Nils Lundkvist (shoulder)

No lineup changes for either team, as Heiskanen is still day to day with that knee injury.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (2-1) vs FLORIDA PANTHERS (1-2)

SCOTIABANK ARENA, TORONTO, ON

4:00 PM PST/ 7:00 PM EST

TV: SPORTSNET, CBC

While the Panthers were able to avoid the sweep, they're still going to have to play a hell of a lot better if they hope to turn this series around. There was a bit of a scare when Auston Matthews was not out for the morning skate with the Leafs, but we're told he's being rested and will be good to go for tonight. Still no word on when Anthony Stolarz will be able to return to the lineup, so it's Joseph Woll again tonight with Matt Murray backing him up.

MAPLE LEAFS (A1) at PANTHERS (A3)

Eastern Conference Second Round, Game 4

7:30 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TBS, SN, TVAS, CBC

Toronto leads best-of-7 series 2-1

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Matthew Knies -- Auston Matthews -- Mitch Marner

Max Pacioretty -- John Tavares -- William Nylander

Bobby McMann -- Max Domi -- Pontus Holmberg

Steven Lorentz -- Scott Laughton -- Calle Jarnkrok

Morgan Rielly -- Brandon Carlo

Jake McCabe -- Chris Tanev

Simon Benoit -- Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Joseph Woll

Matt Murray

Scratched: Dakota Mermis, Philippe Myers, Nicholas Robertson, David Kampf, Ryan Reaves, Artur Akhtyamov, Dennis Hildeby

Injured: Jani Hakanpaa (lower body), Anthony Stolarz (undisclosed)

Panthers projected lineup

Evan Rodrigues -- Aleksander Barkov -- Sam Reinhart

Carter Verhaeghe -- Sam Bennett -- Matthew Tkachuk

Eetu Luostarinen -- Anton Lundell -- Brad Marchand

Jonah Gadjovich -- Tomas Nosek -- A.J. Greer

Gustav Forsling -- Aaron Ekblad

Niko Mikkola -- Seth Jones

Nate Schmidt -- Dmitry Kulikov

Sergei Bobrovsky

Vitek Vanecek

Scratched: Mackie Samoskevich, Nico Sturm, Jesper Boqvist, Uvis Balinskis, Jaycob Megna, Evan Cormier

Injured: None

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

CRISIX, out of the Catalonia region of Spain got their big break winning the Wacken Metal Battle, and blowing everyone away at the fest. They're currently on a hiatus, but if you like high energy thrash, this is a band you need to check out. This is "Dead By The Fistful Of Violence" off their 2011 debut 'The Menace'.

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