3 Keys: Oilers at Jets, Game 4 of first round

The Winnipeg Jets can to advance to the Stanley Cup Second Round with a victory in Game 4 of their best-of-7 series against the Edmonton Oilers at Bell MTS Place on Monday.The Jets won 5-4 in overtime in Game 3 on Sunday, coming back from trailing 4-1 with less than nine minutes remaining in the third period.It’s the first time in Jets/Atlanta Thrashers history they have led a series 3-0.Teams that take a 3-0 lead are 193-4 (98.0 percent) winning a best-of-7 series, including 1-0 this season.”If it’s going to take 60 minutes or more, it’s going to take 60 minutes or more,” Jets forward Paul Stastny said. “We’ve got to be ready for that knowing that they’re going to leave it all out there because potentially it’s your last game of the season. So they’re going to come out fighting as hard as they can.”Winnipeg became the 10th team in Stanley Cup Playoffs history to win a game it had trailed by at least three goals in the final 10 minutes of the third.Facing a sweep and trying to extend the series, the Oilers will be counting on more from forward Connor McDavid (three assists) and Leon Draisaitl (two goals, one assist), each of whom scored three points in Game 3. The top two scorers in the NHL during the regular season each had been held without a point in the first two games.”I thought yesterday we could have handled the end a lot better,” Oilers defenseman Adam Larsson said. “Last night was tough, but waking up today, you’re looking for redemption today. We just have to win today and go back to Edmonton and try to win a game and then it’s a 3-2 series and everything can happen. One game at a time here and tonight is do or die, a really important one.”Here are 3 keys for Game 4: