r missed his second game with a concussion after falling to the ice Monday in Philadelphia. … Canucks G Michael DiPietro, backed up Markstrom for a second straight game on Thursday after Thatcher Demko sprained his knee Monday in warmups and returned to Vancouver.

NASHVILLE Mike Condon Jersey , Tenn. (AP) The Winnipeg Jets only got a few hours to celebrate the biggest victory in franchise history.The Jets finished off the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Nashville Predators 5-1 in Game 7 of their second-round series Thursday night, then quickly headed home to prepare for the opener of their first ever Western Conference final Saturday night.”It’s too bad one of us had to be knocked off here,” Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. ”But night’s like tonight, you try to really soak it in and enjoy it. And then, wake up and get ready for a big game on Saturday.”The Jets will be hosting the upstart Vegas Golden Knights in a conference final nobody predicted.Upstart Winnipeg was swept in its only previous playoff appearance since leaving Atlanta for Canada in 2011. The Golden Knights, meanwhile, are dragging their debut season deep into the NHL calendar.”We know what they bring, we know that they’re good, that they maybe surprised a few teams, but not really,” Jets center Paul Stastny said. ”They had 109 points. In a sense they play like us, they have a lot of depth, and they can roll four lines Ryan Dzingel Jersey , and they have good, puck-moving D. So we’re going to have our hands full for sure.”Stastny had one of two Winnipeg goals 2:06 apart in the first period to chase Vezina Trophy finalist Pekka Rinne for the third and final time in their series. Stastny finished with two goals and an assist, and Mark Scheifele finished with two goals, giving him a postseason record seven road goals in a single series .Tyler Myers also scored. Wheeler and rookie Kyle Connor each added two assists, and Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who improved to 4-0 coming off a loss this postseason, made 36 saves to outduel Rinne in the showdown between Vezina Trophy finalists.”A year in a goalie’s life makes such a big difference,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said of his 24-year-old goalie. ”In the third period, I think had one bobbled puck that got away from him, but everything else after that he was knocking it to the corner, he was clearing the front. He looked calm.”This was the first Game 7 for the Winnipeg/Atlanta franchise, and the Jets dominated the Predators to win in Nashville for the third time in the series. They outskated the Predators and kept the puck on their sticks much of the game, even as Nashville outshot them 21-7 in the third period.By the time Scheifele scored his record-setting goal into an empty net with 2:33 left Womens Tom Pyatt Jersey , the Jets had left no doubt this was their series.Now they head back to Winnipeg, where the Jets posted the NHL’s best home record in the regular season. They have a good idea how much this next series means as Canada’s last team still standing and even more special for Winnipeg after the town lost its first NHL team to Arizona.Wheeler said they’re thrilled their fans get to have a celebration.”Our fans have been with us filling up our building for seven years and we haven’t always had the most success, but they’ve always been supportive all over the city,” Wheeler said. ”I don’t think I’ve heard a negative comment in seven years. So now, we’re just happy to keep playing for them.”— CHICAGO (AP) — Jonathan Toews joked he was out of gas. He had at least one terrific play left in the tank.Toews scored 3:21 into overtime to lift the Chicago Blackhawks over the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Thursday night for their season-high sixth straight win.Alex DeBrincat scored twice before Toews ended it with his 24th goal to cap a flashy individual effort. Chicago’s captain skated in from the blue line, slipped past Christopher Tanev with a quick move and snapped a shot past goalie Jacob Markstrom.“I think maybe if everyone else was as tired as I was, (I wanted to) make one last play without it being too dangerous of a play,” Toews said. “I was able to anticipate their D-man throwing his stick in there and was able to get a shot. It was nice to see it go in.”Toews stuck out his tongue to feign exhaustion as he was mobbed by his teammates.Brandon Saad also scored and Dylan Strome had three assists for the Blackhawks, who have climbed back into the crowded fray for a wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Patrick Kane had an assist to extend his point streak to 13 games.The Blackhawks went 2 for 5 on the power play. Chicago has scored with the man advantage in 15 of 17 games and converted 23 of 57 chances during the stretch.“We feel every time we’re on the power play we’re a threat,” Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton said.DeBrincat has 28 goals, matching his total last season as rookie, and 10 goals in his last 12 games. The 21-year-old extended his point streak to seven games, with five goals and seven assists in the stretch.Strome has clicked with DeBrincat after coming to Chicago from Arizona in a trade on Nov. 25 Jordan Nolan Jersey Womens , 2018. The two starred together as junior players with the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League.“I think over time you just build a connection,” Strome said. “I usually know where he’s going to be. And he’s pretty good at putting it in the back of the net, so it works out pretty well.”Vancouver rookie Elias Pettersson scored a power-play goal with Markstrom pulled for an extra attacker to tie it with 1:52 left.Alex Biega and Josh Leivo scored for the Canucks, who have dropped three straight and finished a four-game trip at 1-2-1.Vancouver coach Travis Green said his team played better on the swing than the record suggests.“We could be sitting here with six or seven points on the trip,” Green said.Chicago’s Collin Delia made 40 saves, while Markstrom blocked 31 shots in his sixth straight start.Green maintained the Canucks were better than the Blackhawks at even strength.“It was a good point, a big point,” Green said. “5 on 5 we had a great game.”“They have a great power play. That was about the difference in this one.”NOTES: Blackhawks F David Kampf will be out three to four weeks with a right foot injury, the team announced Thursday morning. He left in the first period of Chicago’s 6-2 at Edmonton on Tuesday and didn’t return. … Canucks D Alexander Edler missed his second game with a concussion after falling to the ice Monday in Philadelphia. … Canucks G Michael DiPietro, backed up Markstrom for a second straight game on Thursday after Thatcher Demko sprained his knee Monday in warmups and returned to Vancouver. Demko is expected to miss seven to 10 days. The 19-year-old DiPietro, called up from the Ontario Hockey League Ottawa 67s, tended net for Canada in the 2019 World Junior Championship.UP NEXTCanucks: Return to Vancouver to face Calgary on Saturday.Blackhawks: Host Detroit on Sunday afternoon.