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Each night during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, TSN Hockey analyst and former NHL goaltender Jamie McLennan provides his Post 2 Post rankings for every goaltender in action.

Devan Dubnyk (2) - The Blues targeted his blocker side all night long. Three of the four goals he allowed went there, including the game winner. The only one that didn’t go blocker side was a bad goal short side. It’s tough to blame the loss of the series on him, though, as he gave his team a chance to be in the games. Overall, however, he was outplayed by Allen in the series.  

Jake Allen (3) – Allen was strong in first two periods, holding the Wild off with big saves on Jason Zucker, Eric Staal, Erik Haula, Zach Parise and Jared Spurgeon. He was brilliant in the series, especially stealing the first two games on the road. 

Carey Price (4) - Strong game against the Rangers despite the loss. He had no chance on the Mats Zuccarello back door goal and made big saves on Mika Zibanejad, Oscar Lindberg and JT Miller. You can’t lay blame on him losing the series. There was not a lot of goal support when it mattered, would have had to have been perfect for them to win - he wasn’t.  

Henrik Lundqvist (4) - Great game Saturday to finish the series. He made big saves on Shea Weber and Jeff Petry, and came up with a huge left pad save on Tomas Plekanec with one minute left. He outplayed Price in the series and delivered the big wins when needed. 

Martin Jones (4) - Beat on two breakaways and other than that he gave his team a chance to win. He had big saves on Jordan Eberle and Milan Lucic - two times each as well as saves on Connor McDavid and Drake Cagguila. Cam Talbot was the story in the series, but Jones was sharp as well and didn’t have a lot of help offensively. 

Cam Talbot (4) - Brilliant all series long and delivered when the team needed him most. He made big two saves on Patrick Marleau and stopped Melker Karlsson, Logan Couture and Brent Burns in key chances to deliver the win.