FILE - In this Saturday, April 7, 2018, file photo, Calgary Flames coach Glen Gulutzan, top, watches during the team's NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights in Calgary, Alberta. The Flames fired Gulutzan on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, after two years with the club. Assistant coaches Dave Cameron and Paul Jerrard were also relieved of their duties. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
FILE - In this Saturday, April 7, 2018, file photo, Calgary Flames coach Glen Gulutzan, top, watches during the team's NHL hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights in Calgary, Alberta. The Flames fired Gulutzan on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, after two years with the club. Assistant coaches Dave Cameron and Paul Jerrard were also relieved of their duties. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press via AP, File) Credit: Larry MacDougal

St. Paul, Minn. — Mark Scheifele scored both goals for Winnipeg and Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for his seventh shutout this season, as the Jets beat the Minnesota Wild, 2-0, on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Scheifele scored with 28 seconds left in the first period and tacked on an empty-netter with 11 seconds remaining, pushing the Wild to the brink of elimination.

Devan Dubnyk stopped 26 shots for the Wild, who played without star left wing Zach Parise because of a broken sternum suffered in Game 3. After a six-goal outburst in their last appearance, the Wild had trouble generating the same kind of relentless attack and simply couldn’t slide any pucks past Hellebuyck.

Now the series shifts back to Winnipeg, with Game 5 on Friday night.

After a tightly whistled game here Sunday night, there were only three penalties called. The Jets closed up the holes they gave the Wild through the neutral zone in Game 3. Hellebuyck, who was named earlier in the day one of the NHL’s three finalists for the Vezina Trophy that’s awarded annually to the best goalie in the league, bounced back in a big way from the previous game when he gave up six goals and was pulled after two periods.

The crowd, fired up about the opportunity the Wild had to even the series, produced plenty of collective groans after difficult saves by Hellebuyck after jeering him in Game 3 with the customary “Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!” chant. One of Hellebuyck’s most important stops came in the opening minutes of the second period, when a 3-on-1 rush by the Wild set up Matt Dumba for a wrist try denied with a sprawling glove stop.

Scheifele was part of the sandwich hit with Ben Chiarot late in the third period of Game 3 on Parise that led to a broken sternum for the Wild’s all-time postseason scoring leader, a stunning setback for the home team revealed about four hours before Game 4.

Capitals 3, Blue Jackets 2 (2 ot)

Columbus, Ohio — Lars Eller scored 9:00 into the second overtime as Washington edged Columbus to cut the Blue Jackets’ first-round playoff series advantage to 2-1.

Flames Fire Coach

Calgary, Alberta — The Calgary Flames fired head coach Glen Gulutzan on Tuesday after two years with the club.

Assistant coaches Dave Cameron and Paul Jerrard also were relieved of their duties.

Gulutzan led the Flames to the playoffs in his first season in Calgary, eventually being swept by the Anaheim Ducks.

But the club missed the postseason in 2017-18 after posting a 37-35-10 record.

Calgary held the Western Conference’s final wild-card spot on Feb. 25, but finished 12th overall after finishing the season with just two wins over its final 11 regular-season games.

Calgary was a dismal 17-20-4 at home and its power play was 29th overall at just 16 percent.