Midgame 3-goal flurry sends Ducks to win over Jets

Alex Killorn, Ryan Poehling and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist for the visiting Anaheim Ducks, who scored three times in a 1:44 span of the second period in a 4-1 victory against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.

Tim Washe also scored and Lukas Dostal made just 12 saves for the Ducks in the opener of the four-game road trip.

Anaheim improved to 6-2-0 since the Olympic break and 15-4-0 in its past 19 games.

Morgan Barron scored and Connor Hellebuyck turned away 30 shots for the Jets, who had won three in a row.

After a scoreless first period in which the Jets were outshot 8-2, the hosts took a 1-0 lead at 5:04 of the second. Elias Salomonsson took a slap shot from the right point, and Barron tipped the puck into the net.

The Ducks answered with two goals in a 14-second span to move ahead.

Jansen Harkins took a shot from the right circle that was saved by Hellebuyck with his right pad. The rebound came out diagonally, and Washe beat Jets defenseman Haydn Fleury to the puck, banking it off the left post and in to tie it 1-1 at 6:24.

Killorn then swept the puck toward the net from the left point and Poehling deflected it into the net as he skated through the slot for a 2-1 lead at 6:38.

Anaheim scored again at 8:08 after Poehling forced a turnover at the Winnipeg blue line. The puck went to Killorn for a 2-on-1 going the other way. Killorn elected to shoot from the right circle and sent it into the far side of the net to extend the lead to 3-1.

The Ducks increased their shot advantage to 28-7 after two periods.

LaCombe sealed it with an empty-net goal with 26 seconds left as Anaheim improved to 21-0-0 when leading after two periods.

--Field Level Media