Jets fall to Stars on reviewed overtime goal

DALLAS - Something about overtime at American Airlines Center doesn't seem to sit well with the Winnipeg Jets lately.
Just 12 days ago, the Jets fell to the Stars in overtime after tying the game late. On Wednesday night, it was the Stars tying the game in the third and then snatching a 3-2 overtime win on Tyler Seguin's 17th goal of the campaign just 54 seconds into three-on-three.
In fact, it's the fourth time in the last six Jets visits to Dallas that they've fallen in the extra frame.
"It's a hard fought game obviously," said Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey, who led the Jets in ice time with 23:56. "We score in OT it's a different story. There's a lot of good things in that game."
The Jets earned a point, but have also had two heartbreaking losses to open a four-game road trip.
"Every time we play these guys, we have good games, hard games, close games," said Jets interim head coach Dave Lowry. "Obviously with where both teams are positioned in the standings, it was going to have the make-up of a real tight, heavy game."

Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele scored for the Jets, who had leads of 1-0 and 2-1 during regulation time.
Connor Hellebuyck made 36 saves on the 39 shots he faced. However, that didn't mean much to the 28-year-old after the loss, which dropped the Jets to 22-20-9 and five points back of the Stars in the Central Division standings.

"It's tough because I want it so bad and I want to make (the) playoffs really bad and I know everyone in the room does, too," Hellebuyck said. "I know we're taking it game by game, but it's tough when we keep on losing so close."
For the first time in six games, the Jets opened the scoring on a beautiful passing play. It started with Scheifele gaining the Dallas zone and hitting Neal Pionk in the middle of the ice with a pass. Pionk dropped it for Wheeler, who ripped his sixth of the season just inside the left post 7:14 into the first period.
Dallas answered back in the second on a shorthanded rush, with Roope Hintz finding Jamie Benn on a two-on-one. Benn slipped home his 13th of the season through the legs of Hellebuyck with just over two minutes left in the middle frame.
Winnipeg was undeterred though, as their power play got that goal back in the third period. Scheifele teed off on a one-timer, set up by Pionk, and blasted the puck past Jake Oettinger to restore the Jets lead at 2-1. Scheifele's 18th of the campaign was Winnipeg's first power play goal in its last 18 opportunities in Dallas.
Winnipeg finished one-for-three on the power play, while the penalty kill was solid against the NHL's eighth-ranked Stars power play - killing all five shorthanded situations.
"I see a lot of guys who are dialled in and willing to get in shot lanes," said Lowry. "Willing to roll short (shifts) and they're doing the things with a lot of urgency and doing things with a lot of desperation and you know, the details are there."

However, the Stars would work a passing play of their own with 6:35 left in the final period, with Denis Gurianov finishing a cross-crease pass from Seguin to even the score at 2-2.
"I was locked onto the shooter and if he put it any further off my pad, I would have probably read it as a pass," said Hellebuyck. "But he put it in a good spot that made me react as if it was a shot. I was just not long enough to get a piece of it."
In the overtime period, similar to the match-up 12 days prior, the Jets had a chance to win it. Morrissey was in tight on Oettinger but the Stars goaltender was able to get a blocker on Morrissey's quick shot.
Dallas came back the other way, with Seguin firing a wrist shot from the right circle that Hellebuyck stopped, then popped into the air further with his stick, before Seguin batted it just over the line before Morrissey could sweep it out.
There was a review, but it was ruled the puck completely crossed the line and the extra point followed the Stars into their dressing room leaving the Jets with just a single point.
"It's not a high stick. The league reviews every goal in the last minute and in overtime," said Lowry. "So, there's nothing that you can do."
Winnipeg is 0-1-1 on the road trip and take on the Central Division leading Colorado Avalanche on Friday.
"You look at our schedule, you don't have time to feel sorry for yourself or get dejected," said Morrissey. "We've got to turn the page right away and be ready to go against a pretty darn good team next."