WINNIPEG — The Ducks hit another low point in a season that has had plenty of them.
Tyler Toffoli scored his first two goals since being traded to the Winnipeg Jets and Laurent Brossoit made 21 saves for his second shutout of the season in a 6-0 victory over the Ducks on Friday. It was the Ducks’ fifth consecutive loss and the second in a row in which they were held scoreless.
Jets defenseman Dylan DeMelo snapped a 63-game goal drought and added an assist in front of Winnipeg’s fifth sellout crowd of 15,225 fans at Canada Life Centre.
Kyle Connor, Nate Schmidt and Mason Appleton also scored. Josh Morrissey chipped in with three assists and Nikolaj Ehlers had a pair of helpers for the Jets (42-19-5), who have gone win, loss, win, loss and win in their past five games.
John Gibson stopped 32 shots for the Ducks (23-41-3), who lost to the Minnesota Wild, 2-0, on Thursday and have been outscored 27-5 during their losing streak.
“It starts with me,” Ducks forward Troy Terry said. “We’ve just got to start getting more offense. We can’t keep making excuses for injuries and missing guys.”
Ducks coach Greg Cronin agreed scoring is in short supply.
“We won’t shoot the puck. We won’t do it,” Cronin said. “It’s been an ongoing problem. And when we do shoot it, we don’t get it through. It hits a stick or a shin pad and goes the other direction.”
The Jets’ victory moved them into a three-way tie with the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche for first place in the Central Division.
Brossoit’s shutout was his fifth straight victory as a starter (12-4-2). He hasn’t given up a goal in 141 minutes and 40 seconds, dating to last Friday’s 3-0 shutout of the Seattle Kraken and a 5-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on March 3.
“It’s feeling pretty good and then, obviously, the team in front of me,” Brossoit said. “I’m going to try not to get too high on these because you know the opponents that I was playing in those two…
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