Bruce Cassidy felt confident at Wednesday's presser, he said his team knew what was going to be at stake for Game 5 in the best-of-seven vs Winnipeg. And his group and delivered a 4-1 victory and a KO blow of the Jets. VGK won the Gentleman's Series 4-1. They now advance to the 2nd round where they will meet the winner of the Edmonton-L.A. series, which won't play a sixth game until Saturday. One of the key's to VGK's success in the Winnipeg series was scoring early goals. And, VGK has really turned around second period scoring. They lead the playoffs with 10 goals in the second period now. Winnipeg was depleted and was missing its top two scorers. VGK's Brayden McNabb missed Thursday's game with an upper body injury. Shea Theodore was a last-minute scratch with an illness and Phil Kessel was a healthy scratch, as William Carrier returned to the lineup for the first time since March 3. We also name our three stars of the series: Brossoit, Stone and #1 Stephenson (Tony)/Karlsson (Chris.) Suprisingly neithere Reilly Smith or Jonathan Marchessault scored a goal in the series for VGK We also have our WTF feature with some of your comments.

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