At the Rink: Jets at Ducks

ANAHEIM -- The Winnipeg Jets will have center Mark Scheifele back in the lineup for their game against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Sunday (9 p.m. ET; TSN3, PRIME, FS-SD)

The Jets activated Scheifele a few hours before game time and sent forward Matt Halischuk to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League. Scheifele missed the Jets' past three games because of a concussion. He has 12 goals and 10 assists in 34 games this season.

It's the first game between the teams since the Ducks swept the Jets in the Western Conference First Round of the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Each team is well behind its pace of a year ago, for different reasons.

No other team in the NHL is struggling to score goals like the Ducks, who are playing the first of an eight-game homestand. The Jets haven't had much of a problem finding the back of the net and are one day removed from a 4-1 win at the San Jose Sharks. However, they are in the bottom third of the NHL defensively and have given opponents more power-play goals than any team in the League.

Bryan Little is the Jets' leading goal-scorer with 14, Drew Stafford has 12 and two other players have scored 10 goals. Corey Perry leads the Ducks with 13, but he's the only Anaheim player to reach double digits in goals. The Ducks scored three times on their three-game road trip, though they went 2-0-1 by earning back-to-back 1-0 victories against the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers before a 2-1 shootout loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.

Anaheim's defense has been a bright spot in an otherwise frustrating season. The Ducks allowed the fewest goals (22) and fewest shots (251) of any NHL team during December. However, they are last in the NHL with 68 non-shootout goals in 37 games.

John Gibson, who was in goal for the shutouts at Calgary and Edmonton, is expected to play after Frederik Andersen got the start at Vancouver.

The win in San Jose snapped a six-game road losing streak for the Jets, who've won three of their past four games. Drew Stafford opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal and Mathieu Perreault's power-play goal ended an 0-for-19 drought with the man-advantage to complete a solid night for the Jets' special teams.

The Jets are expected to start goaltender Michael Hutchinson after rookie Connor Hellebuyck got the win in San Jose.

Neither team held a morning skate.

Here are the projected lineups:

JETS

Drew Stafford - Bryan Little - Blake Wheeler

Andrew Ladd - Adam Lowry - Alex Burmistrov

Chris Thorburn - Mathieu Perreault - Nikolaj Ehlers

Joel Armia - Matt Scheifele - Andrew Copp

Jacob Trouba - Dustin Byfuglien

Tobias Enstrom - Tyler Myers

Mark Stuart - Ben Chariot

Michael Hutchinson

Connor Hellebuyck

Injured: Grant Clitsome (back), Ondrej Pavelec (knee)

Scratched: Adam Pardy, Paul Postma, Anthony Peluso

DUCKS

Rickard Rakell - Ryan Getzlaf - Corey Perry

Carl Hagelin - Ryan Kesler - Jakob Silfverberg

Jiri Sekac - Shawn Horcoff - Mike Santorelli

Patrick Maroon - Nate Thompson - Andrew Cogliano

Hampus Lindholm - Josh Manson

Sami Vatanen - Kevin Bieksa

Clayton Stoner - Shea Theodore

John Gibson

Frederik Andersen

Injured: Simon Despres (concussion), Cam Fowler (knee)

Scratched: Korbinian Holzer, Chris Stewart

Status report: Gibson has not faced the Jets during his brief NHL career. Fowler, who was injured last Sunday against the Philadelphia Flyers, was diagnosed with a sprained knee and is expected to miss at least another four weeks. He was placed on injured reserve Saturday. Theodore, the Ducks' top prospect, took his place in the lineup the past three games.

Who's hot: Wheeler has assists in six of the past eight games. … Gibson has allowed five goals in his past five games. Getzlaf has three goals and 10 assists against Winnipeg in 11 games.