Lowry scores late in 2OT to rally Jets to 4-3 win over Blues in Game 7 to advance to 2nd round

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Adam Lowry scored on a tipped shot 16:10 into the second overtime and the Winnipeg Jets rallied to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 on Sunday night to advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs.

Cole Perfetti had two goals, Vladislav Namestnikov also scored, and Kyle Connor and Neal Pionk each had three assists for Winnipeg, which scored twice in the final two minutes of regulation to tie the score. Connor Hellebuyck finished with 26 saves.

Lowry deflected Pionk's shot from the right point late in the second overtime to end the third-longest Game 7 in NHL history at 96:10.

“It’s incredibly special,” Lowry said. “I probably dreamt it was a little nicer than just going off my leg, but it’s one of those things, on the outdoor rink, in the driveway, you dream about being the hero in a Game 7 and giving yourself a chance to continue chasing a Stanley Cup."

The Jets will next face the Dallas Stars starting Wednesday at home in the teams' first postseason meeting.

Jordan Kyrou, Mathieu Joseph and Radek Faksa scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington had 43 saves.

Winnipeg won the franchise’s first Presidents’ Trophy after having a league-best 56-22-4 regular-season record and were the favorites against the eighth-seeded Blues. They needed a late comeback to avoid getting knocked out in the first round for a third straight year.

“To lose in those first rounds, those were heartbreaking,” said Jets first-year coach Scott Arniel, who was the club’s associate coach the previous two seasons. “Last year, obviously with the season we had (52 wins), to do it this year we didn’t want to go out. That was one of the messages I said to these guys, ‘Bring your best game forward and have no regrets.’ And that’s what it was all about.”

Winnipeg was down 3-1 in the third period when Namestnikov scored with 1:56 remaining after his shot went in off Blues defenseman Ryan Suter.

With Hellebuyck pulled for an extra skater, Winnipeg appeared to tied it up 50 seconds later, but a review ruled the puck didn’t cross the goal line.

Perfetti then scored his second redirected goal of the game with 3 seconds remaining to lift 15,225 frenzied white-clad fans out of their seats inside Canada Life Centre.

“Even down 3-1, there was no doubt,” Perfetti said. “We had belief in one another and belief that we were going to come back. I’m just so proud of this group and so proud to be a part of it.”

Winnipeg went on the power play 6:20 into the first overtime when St. Louis captain Brayden Schenn was called for delay of game. The Jets tried to pound the puck in the crease, but Binnington covered it. He also stopped Nikolaj Ehlers on a breakaway.

The Jets were without star center Mark Scheifele (upper body injury) for the second straight game and then lost top defenseman Josh Morrissey about eight minutes into the first period.

“To play this long of a game with five defensemen, it’s pretty incredible,” Ehlers said. “So hats off to those guys. They stuck with it.”

The home team won each game in this series.

Kyrou scored on the Blues' first shot of the game at 1:10 of the first period after he and Colton Parayko went on the rush. It marked the fastest goal to begin a Game 7 in Blues’ history.

Joseph made it 2-0 after picking up a loose puck dropped by Connor in the neutral zone. Using Morrissey as a screen, Joseph sent a wrist shot past Hellebuyck on the stick side at 7:16.

Morrissey went to the dressing soon after the goal. Earlier in the game, he got hit into the boards by Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist and appeared to be in pain as he sat on the bench. He didn’t return.

The Jets missed on a couple chances early in the second period, but got the game’s first power play and quickly made it count. Seven seconds after Sundqvist was called for slashing, Connor sent the puck toward Perfetti at the side of the net and Perfetti redirected it by Binnington with 8:19 remaining.

St. Louis regained a two-goal lead after Ehlers lost the puck and Faksa beat Hellebuyck high over his glove with 34.1 seconds left in the second.

The Winnipeg/Atlanta Thrashers franchise is now 2-8 all-time when facing elimination. The other win came in Game 7 of their second-round series against Nashville in 2018. The original version of the Jets lost a pair of Game 7s on the road in 1990 and ’92.

St. Louis is now 10-9 in Game 7s.

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St. Louis Blues' Radek Faksa (12) celebrates after his goal against the Winnipeg Jets with Cam Fowler (17) during the second period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

St. Louis Blues' Mathieu Joseph (71) celebrates after his goal against the Winnipeg Jets with Zack Bolduc (76) during the first period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

St. Louis Blues' Jordan Kyrou (25) scores against Winnipeg Jets' goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) during the first period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets players confer with coaches during a break in play against the St. Louis Blues during the first period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Cole Perfetti (91) scores against St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington (50) during the second period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

St. Louis Blues' Alexey Toropchenko (13) celebrates a goal by Radek Faksa (not shown) against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, left, during the second period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

St. Louis Blues' Radek Faksa (12) scores against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) during the second period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Morgan Barron (36) and Haydn Fleury (24) defend against St. Louis Blues' Cam Fowler (17) and Robert Thomas (18) in front of Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, second from left, during the second period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Cole Perfetti (91) scores against St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington (50) during the third period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets fans celebrate after the team's third goal against the St. Louis Blues, during the third period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Cole Perfetti (91) celebrates after his goal to tie the St. Louis Blues with Kyle Connor (81) and Neal Pionk (4) during the third period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Cole Perfetti (91) celebrates after his goal with teammates to tie the St. Louis Blues during during the third period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

St. Louis Blues' goaltender Jordan Binnington (50), Colton Parayko (55) and Cam Fowler (17) react as the Winnipeg Jets celebrate their game-winning goal in the second overtime period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Adam Lowry (17) scores the game-winning goal against the St. Louis Blues' goaltender Jordan Binnington (50) in the second overtime period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

Winnipeg Jets' Adam Lowry (17) celebrates his game-winning goal against the St. Louis Blues with Haydn Fleury (24) in the second overtime period of Game 7 in an NHL hockey first-round playoff series in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP)

PARIS (AP) — Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail services through the undersea Channel Tunnel connecting the U.K. and continental Europe on Tuesday, stranding passengers and ruining vacation plans during the busy end-of-year holiday period.

At Paris' Gare du Nord station, Jamie and Issy Gill scrambled to find a flight back to the U.K. after their Eurostar train to London was canceled, desperate to be reunited with their baby boy after enjoying a getaway together in the French capital.

“We came for my 30th birthday and we were supposed to go back on the Eurostar, but everything is canceled,” she said. "We have a 1-year-old at home, with my mum and dad. I'm going to get upset,” she said, wiping away tears.

“It’s a stressful situation,” Jamie Gill said. He said that they'd now have to take a roundabout route back, with a flight via Birmingham on Wednesday.

“It's just, like, the first time we came away without him,” she said.

Eurostar — which runs passenger trains between London and Paris and other European destinations — blamed “overhead power supply issues in the Channel Tunnel” and what it said was a failed train operated by LeShuttle, which transports vehicles and their passengers by rail through the tunnel between the ports of Calais, France, and Folkestone, England.

Eurostar said in a statement that its services “are suspended until further notice," and advised its passengers to rebook their journeys for other days.

In London, disappointed would-be traveler John Paul had been expecting to enjoy a romantic river cruise in Paris and a trip to the Eiffel Tower with his partner Lucy, but their early morning Eurostar got turned back before reaching the continent.

“We got probably about an hour down the track, maybe 40 minutes, and then they basically said the train’s got to stop, because the train ahead got a braking issue,” the 46-year-old Paul said.

“They kept telling us that the driver was trying to fix the brakes on this other train and that the other trains were then backed up," he said. "There’s no clear information and, obviously, we’ve lost a lot of money, haven’t we?”

“We’ll have to put romance on hold for a while," he said.

The Channel Tunnel's operator, Eurotunnel, said in a separate statement that the power supply problem started overnight Monday in part of the tunnel, impacting both passenger and vehicle travel by rail in both directions through the tunnel.

It said that traffic is expected to resume gradually on Tuesday afternoon.

“A technical intervention is required, which is currently underway,” it said. “Our teams are working to restore the situation as quickly as possible.”

John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet in Paris, and Danica Kirka in London, contributed to this report.

Travelers wait at the Gare du Nord station after an incident related to the power supply to trains occurred last night in part of the Channel Tunnel, affecting train and shuttle traffic. Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Travellers queue for Eurostar services at St Pancras International station in London, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 after Eurostar asked train customers not to travel because of disruption in the Channel Tunnel. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

The screen board displays the trains' arrival status at St Pancras International train station in London, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025 after Eurostar asked train customers not to travel because of disruption in the Channel Tunnel. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Travelers queue for Eurostar services at St Pancras International station in London, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Passengers queue to enter the Eurotunnel site in Folkestone in Kent, England, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

FILE - A train coming from London leaves the Northbound Channel tunnel in Calais, northern France, on Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)