Ducks have ‘things to clean up’ after loss to opportunistic Jets

Troy Terry talked astir the galore lessons the Ducks learned from their 5-1 nonaccomplishment Thursday to the Jets astatine Canada Life Centre successful Winnipeg. He spoke of the galore things they had done good successful taking the crippled to the Jets for extended periods, and besides of the things they didn’t bash truthful well.

“We’ve got immoderate things to cleanable up,” said Terry, a close helping who scored the Ducks’ lone goal, connected a powerfulness play lone 1:30 into the game.

Then it was Ducks manager Dallas Eakins’ crook to code the team’s ongoing hunt for a much implicit crippled to commencement the season. He ticked disconnected a fig of affirmative aspects of the Ducks’ play, including their season-high 39 shots and the unit created by their powerfulness play.

“Our powerfulness play has been good, but we privation it to beryllium great,” helium said.

So, if the Ducks mastered truthful galore aspects of the crippled however did it spell truthful incorrect connected the scoreboard?

“It’s a bully acquisition game,” Eakins said. “Winnipeg is simply a unsafe team. We liked our portion time. We liked our chances astatine the net. We liked our changeable count. We liked our attempts. We liked the mode our powerfulness play looked. But we didn’t similar what we near and we’ve got to get amended astatine that.”

The Jets were thing if not opportunistic successful winning for the archetypal clip successful 4 games. They took vantage of a mates of antiaircraft lapses by the Ducks (2-3-0), clicked connected a powerfulness play and played a hopeless game, backstopped by goaltender Connor Hellebuyck successful their location opener.

Kyle Connor scored 2 goals, and Pierre-Luc Dubois, Andrew Copp and Josh Morrisey besides scored for the Jets (1-2-1). DuBois’ extremity ricocheted into John Gibson’s nett disconnected the skate of retreating Ducks defenseman Josh Mahura, a fortunate bounce since the archetypal changeable was heading wide.

Winnipeg made its ain luck, though. Copp enactment the Jets up to enactment 2-1, scoring aft the Ducks mislaid way of him 1:01 into the 2nd period. Morrisey extended the pb to 3-1 with a power-play extremity 1:30 into the third. Connor sealed the woody with 2 goals successful the last minutes.

“The shots were successful our favour and we were creating offense, but that’s erstwhile we possibly got lazy with our (defensive play),” Terry said. “If you instrumentality a displacement off, they’re going to marque you wage and that’s our adjacent step. I consciousness similar I’ve had truthful galore interviews wherever I’ve said we tin physique disconnected stuff, and determination was immoderate bully worldly tonight.

“But it’s not each crippled you’re going to spell retired determination and predominate them and outshoot them. Each crippled is going to beryllium different. Tonight, we had it. We were making plays. Their goalie played good and made immoderate large saves, but we needed to carnivore down and not fto up for a 2nd and springiness them chances.

“Because they buried them.”

FACTS AND FIGURES

Left helping Sonny Milano made his play debut aft Eakins scratched Max Comtois, who was scoreless successful 4 games with a minus-5 antiaircraft standing to commencement the season. Milano was recalled from the San Diego Gulls of the AHL aft Mason McTavish was wounded earlier successful the week. …

Kevin Shattenkirk extended his constituent streak to 5 consecutive games to commencement the season, with an assistance connected Terry’s first-period goal. Shattenkirk’s streak (three goals, 3 assists) is the longest by a Ducks defenseman to statesman a season. He had 2 goals and 13 assists past season. …

Winnipeg played without apical forwards Mark Scheifele and Blake Wheeler, some of whom were successful the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol aft affirmative tests earlier successful the week. Scheifele besides missed the season-opening crippled past week astatine Honda Center due to the fact that of a suspension.