Scheifele scores in Jets' loss, hours after death of father - ESPN

DALLAS — Winnipeg Jets center Mark Scheifele scored a goal in his club's must-win Game 6 of the second-round playoff series at Dallas on Saturday night, hours after the unexpected death of his father.

But he also had the penalty that set up the Stars' power-play goal in overtime for a 2-1 win that knocked the top-ranked Jets out of the playoffs.

Jets captain Adam Lowry went and got Scheifele out of the box when the game ended.

«We're a family. Just to let him know that we're there for him. It's just an awful day for him,» Lowry said. «You want to give him the strength, you want to get that kill so bad. We just couldn't do it.»

During the handshake line afterward, Scheifele hugged and talked to just about everyone, with Stars players clearly offering their support to him in a heartwarming moment.

Scheifele scored his fifth goal of the playoffs 5½ minutes into the second period to give the Jets a 1-0 lead. He scored on a short snap shot from just outside the crease after gathering the rebound of a shot by Kyle Connor.

«I just I know we have a great group here. I knew, going in, once we found out the news that he's going to have a great support group and we're going to be there for him through the highs and the lows and obviously today was a real low,» defenseman Neal Pionk said of Scheifele. "[We] did everything we could to give him some words of encouragement, [and] for him to play tonight, and play the way he did, is flat out one of the most courageous things we've ever seen."

The game was tied at 1 when Sam Steel, who had already scored for Dallas, was on a break. Scheifele lunged forward desperately trying to make a play when he tripped up the forward at the blue line with 14.8 seconds in regulation. Scheifele and the