Winnipeg closes out regular season with 2-1 over Ducks to set franchise points record

Jim Bender · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 10:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Mark Scheifele scored 1:51 into overtime to springiness the Winnipeg Jets a 2-1 triumph implicit the Anaheim Ducks connected Wednesday night.

With the win, the Jets (56-22-4) closed retired the regular play with a franchise-record 116 points.

Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg earlier a sold-out assemblage of 15,225 fans astatine Canada Life Centre. He finished the play with 47 wins, the astir successful franchise history, and clinched the Jennings Trophy for Winnipeg for allowing the fewest regular-season goals.

The sellout was Winnipeg's 8 consecutive and 16th of the season.

Ville Husso stopped 42 shots for Anaheim (35-37-9).

Winnipeg finished the play with a 1-2 grounds versus the Ducks.

Neal Pionk opened the scoring with 6:11 near successful the second, his screened changeable from the constituent beating Husso. It was Pionk's 10th extremity of the season, tying his idiosyncratic best.

Cole Perfetti, who assisted connected the goal, recorded his 50th constituent of the play for the archetypal time. Vlad Namestnikov besides assisted.

Anaheim tied the people 1-1 astatine 5:45 of the 3rd period. Ian Moore's changeable from the constituent was tipped by Frank Vatrano and Troy Terry pounced connected the rebound and slid the puck into the unfastened broadside of the net.

Takeaways

Winnipeg: The Jets changeable aboriginal and often but it took them much than 36 minutes to people their archetypal extremity arsenic Husso was brilliant.

Anaheim: Weathered the Jets tempest and had its chances done the archetypal 2 periods but were stymied by Hellebuyck until scoring connected a screened changeable successful the third.

Key moment

Josh Morrissey made a large antiaircraft play to interruption up a 2-on-1 successful overtime, past raced down the crystal with Scheifele and Kyle Connor. After Connor's changeable conscionable missed the net, helium retrieved the puck, passed to Morrissey, who sent it to Scheifele.

Key stat

The Ducks did not let a changeable connected extremity erstwhile the Jets had a two-man vantage for 58 seconds midway done the first.

Up next

The Jets big the St. Louis Blues successful the archetypal circular of the NHL playoffs. The day for the archetypal crippled has yet to beryllium determined.

The Ducks are done for the season.