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The Ducks\u2019 Tim Washe (42) scores past Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) as Haydn Fleury (24) defends during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Mikael Granlund, right, is checked by the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Adam Lowry during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, right, makes a save on a shot by the Ducks\u2019 Ryan Poehling (25) as Dylan DeMelo (2) defends during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Ross Johnston (44) chases the bouncing puck as the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Brad Lambert, right, defends during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal (1) makes a glove save on a Winnipeg Jets shot as Mark Scheifele (55) looks for a potential rebound during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, right, and teammate Elias Salomonsson go for a loose puck as the Ducks\u2019 Beckett Sennecke, left, skates after it during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Jeffrey Viel, right, is checked by the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Elias Salomonsson (57) as Dylan Samberg (54) gets control of the puck during the first period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Morgan Barron (36) celebrates his goal with Dylan Samberg (54), Cole Perfetti (91) and Alex Iafallo (9) during the second period of a game against the Ducks on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Tim Washe (42) scores past Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) as Haydn Fleury (24) defends during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Tim Washe, front right, celebrates his goal on Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) as Haydn Fleury (24) falls into the net during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Ryan Poehling, right, celebrates his go-ahead goal with Jeffrey Viel (28) during the second period of their game against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Ducks scored three goals in a 1:44 span in the second and won, 4-1. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Jeffrey Viel, left, scores past00 Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) sits on the ice after a goal by the Ducks\u2019 Jeffrey Viel (28) during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Olen Zellweger, center, clears the puck from in front of goaltender Lukas Dostal, left, as the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Gabriel Vilardi looks on during the third period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Ducks head coach Joel Quenneville instructs his players from the bench during the third period of a game against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal (1) makes a save on a Winnipeg Jets shot as Cole Koepke (45) looks for a possible rebound during the third period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Winnipeg Jets\u2019 Jacob Bryson, right, reaches for a bouncing puck in front of the Ducks\u2019 Beckett Sennecke (45) during the third period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) sits on the bench for the extra attacker late in the third period of a game against the Ducks on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Tim Washe (42) scores past Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) as Haydn Fleury (24) defends during the second period on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade\/The Canadian Press via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 The surging Ducks are playing like a team on a mission.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn, Ryan Poehling and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist to lead the Ducks to a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night, their eighth win in the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Tim Washe also scored for the Ducks, who scored three times in a 1:44 span of the second period. Lukas Dostal made 12 saves for the Ducks (36-25-3), who rebounded from a 4-0 loss to St. Louis on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a good mix, we\u2019ve got good balance,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville told NHL.com. \u201cWe know we can score goals, and tonight is a good thing to bounce back to, about knowing that we can check too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to do one thing \u2013 we want to make the playoffs. That\u2019s our priority, that\u2019s our goal. You don\u2019t want to look past our next opponent (Thursday at the Toronto Maple Leafs).\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan Barron scored for Winnipeg (26-27-10). Connor Hellebuyck had 31 saves for the Jets, who saw their three-game win streak and six-game point streak (4-0-2) halted.<\/p>\n

After a scoreless first period in the Ducks outshot Winnipeg 8-2, the Jets opened the scoring at 5:04 of the second when Barron notched his 10th of the season, deflecting an Elias Salomonsson one-timer past Dostal.<\/p>\n

The Ducks quickly flipped the script with their midgame flurry.<\/p>\n

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 level the score at 6:24.<\/p>\n

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 just 14 seconds later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always talk about stacking,\u201d Poehling told NHL.com. \u201cI thought [Ducks forward Jeffrey Viel] did a great job of just being net-front, kind of blocking the guy, and then I got in the top there, and [Killorn] just threw one on net. We always try to tip-in, and that one ended up going in. It happens a lot throughout the game, and that one just ended up going in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ducks 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 opted to shoot from the right circle and sent it into the far side of the net to extend the lead to 3-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we played great all night in terms of keeping the puck behind them, and then just forechecking above them and creating plays,\u201d Poehling told NHL.com. \u201cSo that was one where we were on top of them and they were a little tired, and I just got back, got a good stick on it, and [Killorn] made a good play from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ducks\u2019 three successive goals are the team\u2019s fastest three goals scored in more than six years, since the Ducks last did it in 1:37 in a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Dec. 27, 2019.<\/p>\n

The Ducks increased their shot advantage to 28-7 after two periods.<\/p>\n

LaCombe sealed it with an empty-net goal with 26 seconds left as the Ducks improved to 21-0-0 when leading after two periods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been one of our most complete games when you look at three periods,\u201d Killorn told NHL.com. \u201cA lot of games, we\u2019ve been down and had to come back. We were down here tonight, but for a majority of the game, we played the right way. It was a great game for our team. I think it\u2019s been our best full game. We didn\u2019t make any stupid turnovers. They\u2019re going to get chances, it\u2019s going to happen, but I thought we limited them as much as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win keeps the Ducks in first place in the Pacific Division, while extending a hot run for goaltender Dostal, who has now won 13 of his past 15 games. The Ducks have won 15 of 19 games (15-4-0) dating to Jan. 13, when they were coming off a nine-game skid (0-8-1) that began with a 3-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cA month ago, it was a different situation. Then we go on a run, and now we\u2019re in first in the Pacific,\u201d Killorn told NHL.com. \u201cYou try not to think about it too much, but it\u2019s just one of those things that it\u2019s so tight, every game is so important. Points, even at the end of games when it\u2019s tied, points are so important that you need to get them when you can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ducks outscored the Jets 12-6 in three games this year.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

The Ducks visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday at 4 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u2019 Tim Washe (42) scores past Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) as Haydn Fleury (24) defends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-216094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216094","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=216094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}