DALLAS >> Mikael Granlund had his first career playoff hat trick, Jake Oettinger stopped 31 shots and the Dallas Stars beat Winnipeg 3-1 on Tuesday night, taking a 3-1 series lead over the top-seeded Jets in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.

Mikko Rantanen, upped his NHL-leading playoff total to 19 points (nine goals) with the primary assist on Granlund’s second goal that broke a 1-1 tie with 2:08 left in the second period and put the Stars ahead to stay.

Granlund did a double fist pump from his knees, then popped up to his skates after his third goal, his fourth in these playoffs, on a power play with 12:37 left in the game. The 33-year-old forward had scored multiple goals only one time in his previous 69 playoff games, for Minnesota in 2014.

“What he does on the ice is one thing, but the guy oozes leadership,” coach Pete DeBoer said. “Our Finnish group there, he’s is kind of the elder statesman of that group.”

Dallas acquired Granlund and Rantanen, both forwards from Finland, through trades during the season.

Game 5 is at Winnipeg on Thursday, when the Stars will have their first chance to advance to the West final for the third year in a row.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets, who have lost all five of their road games this postseason.

The primary assist on the third Granlund goal came from another fellow Finnish player, Miro Heiskanen, the standout defenseman in the lineup for the first time since Jan. 28 after missing the last 32 regular-season games and first 10 playoff games because of a knee injury.

That came soon after Oettinger’s kick save on Kyle Connor’s short-handed attempt in the first half of a double-minor penalty against Haydn Fleury. Granlund scored just before the end of the four-minute penalty.

Hellebuyck, who stopped 21 shots, has now lost nine consecutive playoff road games since winning Game 1 at Vegas in 2023, before the Golden Knights won four in a row. The two-time Vezina Trophy winner, and the odds-on favorite to win the top goalie award again this season, has allowed 24 goals in the five road losses in these playoffs.