{"id":197778,"date":"2026-02-28T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:00:13","slug":"ducks-pump-5-past-olympic-hero-hellebuyck-as-winnipeg-jets-drop-ot-thriller-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197778\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks pump 5 past Olympic hero Hellebuyck, as Winnipeg Jets drop OT thriller in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Kreider beat Connor Hellebuyck off a rebound at 4:47 of overtime to give the Anaheim Ducks a 5-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Beckett Sennecke kept the puck and shot on a two-on-one break, with Kreider backhanding the loose puck in at the side of the net.<\/p>\n<p>After Leo Carlsson, Pavel Mintyukov and Ryan Poehling scored third-period goals to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead, Winnipeg&#8217;s Kyle Connor tied it with 1:22 left and Hellebuyck off for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck made 35 saves in his first game since backstopping the United States to Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<p>Former Jet Jacob Trouba also scored for Anaheim, Sennecke had three assists and Lukas Dostal made 29 saves. The Ducks have won seven in a row at home and 11 of 13 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim won two nights after returning from the break to beat Edmonton at home for coach Joel Quenneville&#8217;s 1,000th NHL victory. The Ducks have five games left on a nine-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two hockey players fight.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772262012_961_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4997108155002892\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Jets defenceman Luke Schenn fights Ducks winger Ross Johnston in the first period of Friday night&#8217;s game in Anaheim (Kyusung Gong\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg rookie defenceman Elias Salomonsson had his first NHL goal and Alex Iafallo and Gabriel Vilardi also scored. Well back in the race for a playoff spot, Winnipeg has a game left on three-game trip before an eight-game homestand.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Jets: At San Jose on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: Host Calgary on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A Ducks player sticks his tongue out as he reaches for the puck while sliding on his stomach.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772262013_666_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50020601565719\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Ducks defenceman Olen Zellweger sprawls for the puck under the checking of Jets winger Alex Iafallo in the second period Friday night. (Kyusung Gong\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-197778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}