In Anaheim, Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves to help the Winnipeg Jets shut out the Ducks, 3-0.
It was his first shut out of the season.
“It’s a monkey off my back,” Hellebuyck said.
Kyle Connor had a goal in Jets’ win – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets who improved to 44-25-4.
“We want to be ready from the start,” Ehlers said. “If you’re not ready from the start in this league, it can get ugly pretty fast. It’s something that we focused on as well and something we need to be ready for. So we played a good game tonight.”
The Ducks dropped to 30-36-9.
“They got a couple lucky bounces on their goals, and we couldn’t find the back of the net,” Anaheim assistant coach Marty Wilford said.
The Jets are three points clear of the Nashville Predators in the race for the top spot in the Central Division.
“I think it would be huge,” Hellebuyck said. “Having home-ice advantage is always a good thing. Plus, we already know it’s going to be a grind (in the Stanley Cup Playoffs), so any advantage we can get, we need.”
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John Gibson made 20 saves in the loss.
“At the end of the night, we took too many penalties,” Anaheim forward Jakob Silfverberg said. “It’s tough killing a lot of penalties, tough to get a rhythm going with all four lines when you’re doing that.”
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