The St. Louis Blues are heading home for Game 3 of their best-of-seven Western Conference series against the Winnipeg Jets.

They’ll hope that the home crowd at Enterprise Center in St. Louis will be enough to spur them to victory, something they need after falling down 2-0 in the series.

Game time is 9:30 p.m. and you can watch it on ESPN2 and FanDuel Sports Midwest or live stream it on fubo TV (FREE trial), DirecTV Stream (FREE trial and discount) and Sling TV (discount).

Mark Scheifele had a goal and assist, Kyle Connor scored his second consecutive game-winner in the third period, and Winnipeg beat St. Louis 2-1 on Monday night for a 2-0 lead in their opening-round playoff series.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 21 shots to help the Jets take a 2-0 playoff series lead for the first time in three seasons. The past two years, Winnipeg won the first game and then lost the next four to be eliminated.

“I don’t know if it’s a mental boost, but we’re aware of it coming into it,” Connor told The Associated Press . “I think over the past couple of years, this group is motivated.

“We talked about it over the offseason, we preached about it all year, it’s in this room. Everybody needs to be better, bear down, it’s dragging everybody into the fight. Yeah it’s a second win, but we’re not resting here. We’ve got a long ways to go.”

Taking a 2-0 lead in the series wasn’t cause for celebration by Jets coach Scott Arniel.

“This is all [about] Game 3 now,” Arniel said. “We’ll do our postgame work tomorrow or over the next couple of days here. The guys know how hard it is, now.”

Rookie Jimmy Snuggerud scored his first playoff goal and Jordan Binnington had 20 saves for the eighth-seeded Blues.

“Winnipeg has made one more play than us. Both games,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. “Shots are dead even, so they’re just making one more play, and their best players are making them.”

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