In Anaheim, the visiting Winnipeg Jets fell behind to the Ducks, 2-0, on Sunday and then reeled off four unanswered strikes in a 4-2 win.
Connor Hellebuyck made 25 saves in the win.
Winnipeg improved to 16-8-2.
After a scoreless opening stanza, Alex Killorn staked the Ducks to a 1-0 lead at 16:07 of the middle frame off a power play strike.
“Our first period wasn’t our greatest period in terms of intensity and playing the right way,” Killorn said. “(The second) period was a little better. Obviously, we lose a guy, they lose a guy, benches are shortened and we take advantage on the power play.”
The game remained tight until the third period when Adam Henrique extended the Ducks advantage to 2-0 75 seconds in to the period.
The Ducks dropped to 10-17-0.
“It’s terrible,” Anaheim coach Greg Cronin said. “You lose a game that you could have won. You’ve got to stay positive and pull out the positive things we’re doing. You have to turn it. It’s got to turn.
Just 43 seconds after the Henrique goal, the Jets’ Nino Niederreiter scored to trim the deficit to 2-1 to start the rally.
Morgan Barron tied the game, 2-2, at 5:55.
“We had talked after the second period (that) we needed to get a greasy goal,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “We weren’t getting to the net hard enough. They’re not giving us much, so when you’re playing a team that’s playing that well and that hard, you’ve got to get greasy goals.”
The Jets took the lead, 3-2, on the third goal of the rally with Gabriel Vilardi scoring with 102 seconds left on the regulation clock.
“We had all those power plays and nothing was going. A lot of teams would just hang their heads,” said Vilardi, whose goal was his first this season. “We just kept battling and battling and we got some greasy goals, and sometimes that’s what it takes to win.”
Mark Scheifele added an empty-net marker with 29 seconds on the clock for the 4-2 final count.
“It was a big win,” Scheifele said. “Some real gutsy plays by a lot of guys.”
The Jets lost Kyle Connor to a lower body injury early in the middle frame after a knee-on-knee hit from Ryan Strome.
John Gibson made 27 saves in the loss.
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