Jets top Ducks, set team marks with six goals in first, nine in home game

WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Jets scored a franchise-record six goals in the first period and Jack Roslovic had four points and his first NHL hat trick in a 9-3 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Bell MTS Place on Saturday.

The nine goals were the most scored in a home game in Jets/Atlanta Thrashers history. Winnipeg also tied a Jets/Thrashers single-game record with nine goals. The Thrashers won 9-8 at the Philadelphia Flyers on Oct. 27, 2011, and 9-0 at the Carolina Hurricanes on Nov. 12, 2005.
Roslovic, who entered the game with four goals this season, scored twice in the first period and completed his hat trick by scoring a power-play goal at 19:39 of the second period that made it 8-2. Fourteen skaters had at least a point for the Jets, and goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who made 26 saves, also had an assist.
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"Felt good," said Roslovic, who was a game-time decision after leaving the morning skate with muscle cramps. "I'm not a big goal scorer so I haven't had a hat trick in a while. And to get one in the NHL [was] pretty nice."
The Central Division-leading Jets (34-16-2) scored five in a period 11 different times, most recently in the first period of a 6-2 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on March 15, 2018.
"Obviously, a really good start against a team coming off of their 10-day break," Jets forward Andrew Copp said. "We were lucky the other team was coming off a break. We kind of took advantage of that aspect and played it out."

Copp gave the Jets a 1-0 lead at 2:07 of the first period. Jacob Trouba sprung Roslovic on a breakaway at 5:26 on the power play to make it 2-0.
Blake Wheeler scored at 12:04 for a 3-0 lead before Bryan Little scored off an odd-man rush with Dmitry Kulikov to make it 4-0 at 15:18.
Roslovic got his second of the game at 16:33 on the power play with a wrist shot at 16:33 and Brendan Lemieux scored on a wraparound to make it 6-0 at 17:41.
"To give up six in the first period, unacceptable," said Ducks forward Corey Perry, who made his season debut after having knee surgery in September. "We as a team have to be better, have to be better in front of [goalie John Gibson]. It's not the way you want to start a hockey game because spotting them six (goals) in the first, you're never going to win that way."
Nick Ritchie had a goal and an assist, and Daniel Sprong and Devin Shore also scored for the Ducks (21-22-9), who are 2-11-4 in their past 17 games and played their first game since Jan. 23 because of the mandatory five-day break after the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend. Gibson was pulled after Lemieux's goal, allowing six goals on 14 shots. Chad Johnson made 14 saves in relief.
"Our personnel has to understand what happened tonight is unacceptable and we're going to hold some people accountable to the way that they're playing," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "With ice time, they're going to sit in the stands. There are various ways to do it but it's one of those things that I never expected us to perform like we did tonight with the group that we have coming off of a nine-day break.
"I figured we would have a little bit of a lull, that we would get our feet underneath us but we didn't initiate enough and didn't get involved enough in the hockey game to even be satisfied."

Ritchie scored at 1:32 of the second period to pull the Ducks to 6-1. Sprong made it 6-2 at 13:54.
Myers pushed the lead to 7-2 at 14:42 and Roslovic completed his hat trick at 19:39.
Little got his second to make it 9-2 at 54 seconds of the third period. Shore made it 9-3 at 12:17.

They said it

"When you're in these types of situations, there's no other way to do it other than to just show up again tomorrow and try and show up with a better attitude and a better mindset on how you're going to compete and how you're going to play and practice." -- Ducks forward Ryan Getzlaf
"When you're up like that after one, you know you're going to see a completely different team out of them in the second. We were all business still, we knew they were going to have a push and we weathered that storm in the first five or seven minutes and from there, we put our foot back on the gas." --Jets forward Mason Appleton

Need to know

Ducks forward Patrick Eaves played 11:28 in his return after missing 33 games because of a broken rib. Defenseman Korbinian Holzer made his season debut on Saturday. … Wheeler has 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) in his past 11 games. … Connor has four points (three goals, one assist) in a three-game point streak.

What's next

Ducks: At the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday (7 p.m. ET; TSN4, PRIME, NHL.TV)
Jets: Host the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET; TSN3, NBCSCA, NHL.TV)