Toffoli scores 1st 2 goals with Jets, who blank Ducks 

WINNIPEG -- Tyler Toffoli scored his first two goals for the Winnipeg Jets, and Laurent Brossoit got his second straight shutout in a 6-0 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Canada Life Centre on Friday.

“Definitely a special moment, and obviously nice to get my first one here, and hopefully keep rolling,” Toffoli said. “[The crowd] was awesome. I got a little taste of it in our first game, with the standing ovation too.”

Toffoli, in his third game since being traded from the New Jersey Devils on March 8, scored twice in a span of 2:58 in the third period. He extended the lead to 4-0 at 8:07 with a wrist shot off a face-off win by Sean Monahan, and redirected a Mark Scheifele shot from in tight on the power play at to make it 5-0 at 11:05.

“We had a discussion as a group,” Toffoli said. "It’s one of those things where we’ve got to try and find the consistency. We’ve got a really big road trip coming up here. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be good for our group.”

Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said of Toffoli: “He’s goal-scorer, and if you get the puck to him in the right spots, he's going to put it on the net and it's going to go in the net. That was good to see, and I loved the fans' reaction to him, right? That was outstanding. We've got such a great fa nbase, such great and passionate fans. They acknowledged the importance of those goals and welcomed him back to the city again."

Brossoit made 21 saves after stopping 17 shots in a 3-0 win against the Seattle Kraken on March 8.

“It's feeling pretty good, and then obviously, the team in front of me,” Brossoit said of not allowing a goal in 150:40 (since 9:20 of the second period in a 5-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres on March 3). "I'm going to try to not to get too high on these, because you know the opponents that I was playing in those two (Seattle and Anaheim) -- have to be honest with myself and make sure that I'm not getting too casual, and because both games my team played phenomenal in front of me.”

Dylan DeMelo had a goal and an assist and Josh Morrissey had three assists for the Jets (42-19-5), who have won five of eight (5-3-0).

John Gibson made 32 saves for the Ducks (23-41-3), who have lost five straight and six of seven.

“There’s really no excuse for giving up the Grade A [chances] that we did in that third period,” Anaheim forward Troy Terry said. “When I say it’s unacceptable to give those up, it’s mostly to him (Gibson). He’s been that guy for us for years now, and he’s our backbone and the team kind of runs through him, and it’s kind of unfair to leave him out to dry like that. Even just staying out of the box and stop giving up power plays or clearing out in front of him. I mean, some of these he just has no chance, and it’s really unfair to him.”

Kyle Connor gave Winnipeg a 1-0 lead at 16:20 of the first period when he tipped in DeMelo’s point shot.

Nate Schmidt pushed it to 2-0 on the power play at 7:47 of the second when his shot deflected off the skates of two Ducks players and past Gibson.

DeMelo made it 3-0 at 4:59 of the third with his first goal in 64 games dating to Oct. 14.

“It was a tight game for two periods,” Anaheim coach Greg Cronin said. “It was like 9-6 for scoring chances. It was close in shots. And the third period… you could feel [the Jets] feeling a little bit more confident. I think they were playing a smart game protecting the lead. Then it’s 3-0 and we don’t have a full lineup, so for us to come back from a 3-0 lead is difficult. Then that face-off goal (Toffoli’s first) was just like, they went [up] and we went [down].”

Mason Appleton extended the lead to 6-0 at 19:54 when he one-timed Adam Lowry’s spinning backhand pass.

"We did a lot of good things in those first couple of periods,” Bowness said. "I thought we managed the puck so much better tonight (compared to a 4-2 loss against the Nashville Predators Wednesday). Going through the neutral zone, we made the right decisions at their blue line. … They’re a tired team, there's no question, so give them credit. We hung on to the puck and were able to make some plays, but the biggest thing was the puck management going through that neutral zone and making the right decision at the blue line. When you do that, you play so much faster.”

NOTES: Anaheim dressed 11 forwards and seven defensemen because forward Mason McTavish (lower body) and defenseman Radko Gudas (upper body) were scratched. … The Ducks have been outscored 27-5 during their five-game skid. … Anaheim has been shut out eight times this season, including a 2-0 loss against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday. … Connor scored his 28th goal of the season in his 50th game, one shy of his personal best at that point in a season (29 in 2021-22). Scheifele is the only other player in Jets history to score as many goals through 50 games in a season (29 in 2022-23). … Brossoit has won five straight starts. … Winnipeg has six shutouts this season. Four other teams have as many: the Pittsburgh Penguins (eight), Arizona Coyotes (seven), Vancouver Canucks (six) and Los Angeles Kings (six). … Morrissey had his eighth three-assist game in the NHL and tied Dustin Byfuglien for the most by a Jets/Atlanta Thrashers defenseman. … Appleton has three points (two goals, one assist) during a three-game point streak.