The home team continues to hold serve in the Leafs/Panthers series, and the Jets still can't figure out how to win on the road. The Caps and Golden Knights can even their series up with road wins tonight.

LAST NIGHT'S ACTION

DALLAS STARS 5 WINNIPEG JETS 2 (Jets lead series 2-1)

The Winnipeg Jets had one job: stop Mikko Rantanen. It seems crazy that a team like Dallas has become so centered on one player, but that's where we are. Rantanen had a goal and two assists as the Stars took Game Three by a score of 5-2. If they can't stop him, and get Connor Hellebuyck to figure out why he's channeling 2011 Finals Roberto Luongo, they could find their Cup hopes disappearing.

FLORIDA PANTHERS 2 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 0 (Series tied 2-2)

Home ice continues to be a factor as the Sergei Bobrovsky stopped all 23 shots he faced in a 2-0 win to tie that series at two games a piece. The Panthers put Joseph Woll to the test, and he was solid despite the loss, stopping 35 of 37 shots. I know it's not easy for some of you to cheer for the Leafs in this one, but man, between the dirty hits that the Panthers keep getting away with and shit like this, it's actually kind of easy.

That's the owner of the Florida Panthers, replying to a Leafs fan. And we thought Frankie was embarrassing. Fuckin' hell. The NHL will do exactly nothing about this, of course. Oh, and Max Domi got a 5k fine for his bullshit hit from behind at the end of the game, which oddly enough wasn't the worst hit in the game.

TONIGHT'S ACTION

WASHINGTON CAPITALS (1-2) vs CAROLINA HURRICANES (1-2)

LENOVO CENTER, RALEIGH, NC

3:00 PM PST/ 6:00 PM EST

TV: SPORTSNET

As weird as it sounds, especially after the season he had, the Capitals need Alex Ovechkin to show up in this series already. He has yet to score a point in this series, and coming off a 4-0 drubbing in Game Three, you have to think this is one of those games where he's a factor. If not, this series could be over soon for Washington.

CAPITALS (M1) at HURRICANES (M2)

Eastern Conference Second Round, Game 4

7 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TNT, SN, TVAS

Carolina leads best-of-7 series 2-1

Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin -- Dylan Strome -- Aliaksei Protas

Connor McMichael -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Tom Wilson

Andrew Mangiapane -- Lars Eller -- Ryan Leonard

Brandon Duhaime -- Nic Dowd -- Anthony Beauvillier

Jakob Chychrun -- John Carlson

Rasmus Sandin -- Matt Roy

Alexander Alexeyev -- Trevor van Riemsdyk

Logan Thompson

Charlie Lindgren

Scratched: Taylor Raddysh, Ethen Frank, Dylan McIlrath, Ethan Bear, Mitchell Gibson

Injured: Martin Fehervary (lower body), Sonny Milano (upper body)

Hurricanes projected lineup

Andrei Svechnikov -- Sebastian Aho -- Seth Jarvis

Taylor Hall -- Jack Roslovic -- Logan Stankoven

Jordan Martinook -- Jordan Staal -- William Carrier

Eric Robinson -- Jesperi Kotkaniemi -- Jackson Blake

Jaccob Slavin -- Brent Burns

Dmitry Orlov -- Jalen Chatfield

Shayne Gostisbehere -- Sean Walker

Frederik Andersen

Pyotr Kochetkov

Injured: Mark Jankowski (undisclosed)

Scratched: Tyson Jost, Riley Stillman, Juha Jaaska, Scott Morrow, Ty Smith, Alexander Nikishin, Spencer Martin

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS (1-2) vs EDMONTON OILERS (2-1)

ROGERS PLACE, EDMONTON, AB

6:30 PM PST/ 9:30 PM EST

TV: SPORTSNET, CBC

The Vegas Golden Knights served up a dagger on Saturday night that may have a lasting effect on the psyche of the Edmonton Oilers. All prepared to head to overtime, they were failed yet again by their supposed number one goalie and their best players on the ice for the game winning goal with under a second to go. I still believe that part of why the Nashville Predators were so terrible this season, was they got absolutely mentally broken by the Canucks in that incredible come from behind win in Game Four of their series. Stuart Skinner will be in the crease again tonight, and with Calvin Pickard still not able to go, that will mean a longer leash for Skinner, but how long? If he struggles again tonight, will they turn to Olivier Rodrigue to try and stop the bleeding?

Vegas has their own issues, as they could be without Mark Stone for Game Four. Stone left early in Game Three, and is a game time decision tonight.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS (P1) at OILERS (P3)

Western Conference Second Round, Game 4

9:30 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, MAX

Edmonton leads best-of-7 series 2-1

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev -- Jack Eichel -- Mark Stone

Victor Olofsson -- Tomas Hertl -- Pavel Dorofeyev

Brett Howden -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith

Tanner Pearson -- Nicolas Roy -- Keegan Kolesar

Brayden McNabb -- Shea Theodore

Noah Hanifin -- Alex Pietrangelo

Nicolas Hague -- Zach Whitecloud

Adin Hill

Akira Schmid

Scratched: Alexander Holtz, Ben Hutton, Kaedan Korczak, Ilya Samsonov, Cole Schwindt

Injured: Brandon Saad (undisclosed)

Oilers projected lineup

Zach Hyman -- Connor McDavid -- Corey Perry

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Leon Draisaitl -- Mattias Janmark

Evander Kane -- Adam Henrique -- Connor Brown

Vasily Podkolzin -- Trent Frederic -- Kasperi Kapanen

Darnell Nurse -- Evan Bouchard

Jake Walman -- John Klingberg

Brett Kulak -- Troy Stecher

Stuart Skinner

Olivier Rodrigue

Scratched: Viktor Arvidsson, Joshua Brown, Cam Dineen, Ty Emberson, Max Jones, Derek Ryan, Jeff Skinner

Injured: Mattias Ekholm (undisclosed), Calvin Pickard (lower body)

GAME DAY BATTLE HYMN

While GWAR continue to slash their bloody way around the planet, for me, it's just not the same without Oderus Urungus on vocals (aka the dearly departed Dave Brockie). Here's one of my favorite GWAR tunes, off the 'Battle Maximus' album, 'Madness At The Core Of Time'. Three and a half minutes of pure mosh madness!