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With the Winnipeg Jets (stanley cup ring for sale) searching for the biggest goal of their season, players in the dressing room were loose heading into overtime Tuesday night.

"I mean, who doesn't want to play in an overtime (playoff) game?" forward Kyle Connor said. "I think everybody had that kind of mentality and we went out there to win it, not to kind of hold back and sit back and try to defend them."

It worked.

Connor scored at 6:02 of overtime and the Jets beat the St. Louis Blues (custom championship rings) 2-1 to tie their best-of-seven Weste Conference series at two games apiece.

Mark Scheifele also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 31 saves for the Jets, who arrived in St. Louis down 2-0. It is the only first-round playoff series in which the home team has failed to win a game.

Game 5 is Thursday night back in Winnipeg.

"Every game has been a battle," Scheifele said. "St. Louis has made us work for every inch and we know that's going to happen again in Game 5 going back home. We've got to be prepared. We've got to get our rest and be ready to battle."

Vladimir Tarasenko scored and Jordan Binnington made 37 saves for the Blues.

"Obviously, tough for sure. But again, it's a tight series," St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. "Two good teams, it could have gone either way."

Connor ended it when he banged home a feed from Scheifele for his third goal in two games. It was the first playoff overtime winner for the Jets since they retued to Winnipeg in 2011.

"It's going to look like this for possibly the next three games," coach Paul Maurice said. "It's going to be really, really tight. The entire team is going to have to play well, but you're going to need one guy to put you over the top."

Tarasenko beat Hellebuyck with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle 35 seconds into the third period to give the Blues a 1-0 lead. The power-play goal, Tarasenko's eighth career in the postseason, moved him into a tie with Brian Sutter and Al MacInnis for fourth in franchise history.

Scheifele tied it at the 7:33 mark, tipping in a feed from Connor. It was Scheifele's second goal of the series.

"Our game got better as the game went on," Scheifele said. "We knew they were going to push and they pushed all night. They played solid. They made us work for every inch. Binnington made a ton of saves and so did our goalie."

After a slow start in Game 3, the Blues (stanley cup ring for sale) came out strong in the first period. They built an 8-0 advantage in shots on goal as it took the Jets almost 11 minutes to test Binnington, who came up with a couple of saves on a Winnipeg power play to keep the game scoreless.

Pat Maroon had a pair of chances to give the Blues the lead in the second period, hitting the post off a pass from Tyler Bozak and getting stopped by Hellebuyck on a partial break.

Binnington came up big on a point-blank chance from Scheifele early in the second, and Brandon Tanev hit the crossbar on a breakaway midway through the period.

"With them winning two here and us winning two there, it's like a restart to the series," Blues forward Robby Fabbri said. "That's the mentality we're going to have to have. Just stay on an even keel and get back to work."

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Even though the Washington (stanley cup ring for sale) Capitals didn't have peak emotional energy from the drop of the puck, they had Braden Holtby. They're used to this by now.

Holtby stopped 35 of the 36 shots he faced to compensate for the slow start by his teammates, and the defending Stanley Cup champions beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 on Sunday afteoon to snap a two-game skid. The 2016 Vezina Trophy winner was in late-season form to help the Capitals kill off three of four Philadelphia power plays and avoid what would have been their first three-game losing streak since January.

"That's a story line that we're privileged to have sometimes is that when we're not at our best, we've got one of the best if not the best in the league back there making up for some of our mistakes," said winger Tom Wilson, who scored his 22nd goal of the season. "That's what a goalie's for. He's the last line of defense. We're lucky to have him."

Travis Boyd and Jakub Vrana also scored for the Capitals, who guaranteed themselves remaining in first place in the Metropolitan Division on Monday when they're scheduled to visit President Donald Trump at the White House. Holtby is one of two players who have said they will not attend.

Washington lacked some intensity the past two games after a showdown with the NHL (stanley cup rings for sale) -leading Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday. The Flyers took the play to them at times despite being on the second half of a back-to-back and having their playoff chances reduced to almost none in recent days.

Jakub Voracek scored a power-play goal and Brian Elliott made 27 saves for Philadelphia, which made a run from near the bottom of the league before running out of gas.

"We battled hard to get back in the standings and give ourselves a chance to make the playoffs," Flyers captain Claude Giroux said. "It's going to be real tough to get in. Two weeks ago, I think we had confidence in our group. We liked the way we were playing, and last two weeks it hasn't gone our way."

Washington (custom championship rings) is trying to avoid an ill-timed slump after losing top-four defenseman Michal Kempny for an indefinite period of time with a lower-body injury. With Kempny out, Capitals coach Todd Reirden mixed up his defensive pairings against the Flyers, moving All-Star John Carlson to his off side to play with fellow righty Nick Jensen. "I think everyone knows how skilled he is and his capabilities out there, so it's not surprising that he can play his off side," Jensen said of Carlson. "It doesn't matter who I'm out there with. I think all the D are really great and easy to play with."

Game notes
The Capitals swept the season series against the Flyers (cheap Philadelphia Flyers championship rings) for just the second time in franchise history. ... The start of the game was delayed several minutes as officials sorted out a lineup discrepancy. Philadelphia initially had Justin Bailey listed as a scratch, but he was in the lineup in place of Phil Varone. ... Capitals C Evgeny Kuznetsov played after missing Saturday's practice with an illness and LW Carl Hagelin retued after missing Friday's game against Minnesota with an illness. ... The sickness going around the team coupled with Kempny's injury led the Capitals to call up D Tyler Lewington as an extra body. ... Captain Alex Ovechkin remained stuck on 48 goals as he looks for his eighth career 50-goal season.

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