Connor Hellebuyck and the Winnipeg Jets return home for a chance to flip the script on their recent playoff disappointments and the demons that have followed them into this spring.

The best-in-the-NHL-regular-season Jets host the Western Conference eighth-seeded St. Louis Blues in Game 7 of their back-and-forth series on Sunday night. It’s the final game of the first round, which Winnipeg has been knocked out in the previous two years and is in danger of happening again, with Hellebuyck again in the spotlight after getting chased in all three of his team’s defeats.

“A one-game showdown: That’s what it is, not just Connor,” coach Scott Arniel said after losing Game 6 in St. Louis 5-2 on Friday. “It’s what we do as a group. ... And you know what, I have a lot of confidence in our group, not just Helly. I have a lot of confidence in our group. You win one hockey game, you move onto the next round.”

Hellebuyck, likely the Vezina Trophy winner as the league’s top goaltender for a second consecutive season and third time in his career and a finalist for the Hart as MVP, has a 4.42 goals-against average and an .815 save percentage. He had some of the best numbers in the NHL in those categories during the regular season, 2.00 and .925.

Hellebuyck and the Jets are 3-0 in the provincial capital of Manitoba, and he has allowed 2.33 goals a game with an .879 save percentage. South of the U.S.-Canada border in St. Louis, he’s allowing 7.24 a game with a .758 save percentage.

The Blues have shown they can hang with Winnipeg, outscoring them 24-17 by winning in blowouts and losing close. None of that matters if they lose another tight one on the road.

“It’s what we’ve all dreamed of in that organization, in that locker room together,” said coach Jim Montgomery. “It’s about us seizing an opportunity. It’s an opportunity that we’ve earned, and now we have to go seize it.”