Toffoli scores twice, Jets shut out Ducks
Tyler Toffoli scored his first two goals since being traded to Winnipeg and Laurent Brossoit stopped 21 shots for his second shutout of the season in the Jets' 6-0 win over the Ducks on Friday night.
Jets defenseman Dylan DeMelo snapped a 63game goal-scoring drought and added an assist, and Kyle Connor, Nate Schmidt and Mason Appleton also scored for Winnipeg. Josh Morrissey had three assists and Nikolaj Ehlers added two for the Jets, who've alternated wins and losses their past five games.
The victory moved Winnipeg into a three-way tie with Dallas and Colorado atop the Central Division. The Jets have the tiebreaker for first place, having played two fewer games than the Stars and one fewer than the Avalanche,
Brossoit's shutout was his fifth straight victory as a starter and he improved to 12-4-2. He hasn't given up a goal in 141 minutes and 40 seconds, dating back to last Friday's 3-0 shutout of Seattle and a 5-2 victory over Buffalo on March 3.
John Gibson stopped 32 shots for Anaheim, has lost five straight and was coming off a 2-0 loss at Minnesota on Thursday. Anaheim has been outscored
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA >> THE SCORE
JETS 6, DUCKS 0
Up next: Ducks at Blues, Sunday, 4 p.m., BSSC
SUMMARY
Ducks Winnipeg
First Period:
1, Winnipeg, Connor 28 (Morrissey, DeMelo), 16:20. Penalties: Pionk, WPG (Hooking), 7:47. Groulx, ANA (Cross Checking), 18:09. Namestnikov, WPG (Slashing), 18:09. DeMelo, WPG (Tripping), 18:37.
2, Winnipeg, Schmidt 2 (Pionk, Ehlers), 7:47 (pp). Penalties: Regenda, ANA (Interference), 6:05. Pionk, WPG (Slashing), 9:57.
3, Winnipeg, DeMelo 2 (Dillon, Ehlers), 4:59. 4, Winnipeg, Toffoli 27 (Monahan), 8:07. 5, Winnipeg, Toffoli 28 (Scheifele, Morrissey),
11:05 (pp). 6, Winnipeg, Appleton 12 (Morrissey, Lowry), 19:54 (pp). Penalties: Johnston, ANA (High Sticking), 2:59. Morrissey, WPG (Hooking), 2:59. Silfverberg, ANA (Holding), 10:57. Lagesson, ANA (Slashing), 18:19. Namestnikov, WPG (Misconduct), 19:54. Johnston, ANA (Misconduct), 19:54.
Second Period:
Third Period:
Shots on goal:
Ducks 6-11-4: 21. Winnipeg 11-10-17: 38;
Ducks 0 of 3. Winnipeg 3 of 3; Ducks, Gibson 13-23-2 (38 shots-32 saves). Winnipeg, Brossoit 124-2 (21-21); 15,225 (15,321); 2:22.
opportunities:
Goalies:
A: 0 1 0 1
Power-play
T: 0 — 0 4 — 6
27-5 during its skid.
Winnipeg led 1-0 after the first period and 2-0 following the second.
Gibson denied Mark Scheifele from in close about seven minutes into the first for an 8-1 lead in shots on goal. Scheifele was back in action on his 31st birthday after missing the past game with the flu.
Anaheim went on the game's first power play less than a minute later, but Frank Vatrano hit the crossbar.
Connor made it 1-0 with his 28th goal of the season when he tipped in a point shot by DeMelo with 3:40 left in the first.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PACIFIC DIVISION
Vancouver Edmonton Kings Vegas Calgary Seattle Ducks
San Jose
Winnipeg Colorado Dallas Nashville Minnesota St. Louis Arizona Chicago
GP W
67 42 64 40 66 34 66 35 66 32 65 28 67 23 65 16
CENTRAL DIVISION
GP W
66 42 67 42 68 40 67 38 67 33 66 34 67 27 67 18
L OT Pts GF GA
17 21 21 24 29 25 41 42 8 3 11 7 5 12 3 7 92 237 182 83 229 182 79 203 174 77 213 199 69 206 213 68 179 186 49 169 244 39 144 259
L OT Pts GF GA
19 20 19 25 27 29 35 44 5 89 204 157 5 89 251 202 9 89 247 209 4 80 215 203 7 73 210 216 3 71 187 201 5 59 197 223 5 41 145 240
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Florida Boston Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit Buffalo Montreal Ottawa
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
N.Y. Rangers Carolina Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Washington New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus
GP W
67 68 65 66 66 67 66 64
GP W
66 43 66 40 67 34 65 29 65 31 66 32 65 29 66 22
Friday's results
Kings 5, Chicago 0 Winnipeg 6, Ducks 0
Today's games
Buffalo at Detroit, 9:30 a.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 9:30 a.m. N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, noon New Jersey at Arizona, 2 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 3 p.m. Carolina at Toronto, 4 p.m. Montreal at Calgary, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 4 p.m.
San Jose at Columbus, 4 p.m. Kings at Dallas, 5 p.m.
Minnesota at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Colorado at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Nashville at Seattle, 7 p.m. Washington at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Sunday's games
45 39 38 35 33 32 25 27
L OT Pts GF GA
18 14 19 25 27 30 30 33
L OT Pts GF GA
19 20 25 22 25 30 27 33
4 15 8 6 6 5 11 4 94 221 160 93 225 185 84 237 203 76 230 222 72 225 222 69 200 198 61 184 231 58 205 223 4 90 217 179 6 86 220 178 8 76 197 202 14 72 197 213 9 71 174 205 4 68 218 229 9 67 187 189 11 55 194 238
N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 10 a.m. New Jersey at Vegas, 12:30 p.m. Carolina at Ottawa, 3 p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m.
San Jose at Chicago, 3 p.m.
Winnipeg at Columbus, 3 p.m.
Ducks at St. Louis, 4 p.m.