Jets 6, Stars 3
DALLAS -- Center Mark Scheifele had a goal and three assists, right winger Joel Armia added two goals and an assist, and goaltender Michael Hutchinson stopped 27 of 30 shots for the Winnipeg Jets in a 6-3 win against the Dallas Stars on Thursday at American Airlines Center.
Left winger Nikolaj Ehlers had two assists for the Jets, who snapped a four-game losing streak (0-3-1).
Right winger Blake Wheeler and defensemen Toby Enstrom and Jacob Trouba also scored for the Jets (26-30-4).
Center Jason Spezza had two goals and right winger Patrick Sharp had three assists for Dallas (38-18-6). The Stars also got a goal from center Tyler Seguin.
Dallas trailed 3-2 at the second intermission, but Spezza tied it with his second goal of the game 2:23 into the third period. Spezza's wrist shot from near the red line traveled in through Hutchinson's five hole.
However, the Jets stormed back with two goals in 40 seconds to take a 5-3 lead. Scheifele scored his second of the game on an easy tap-in at the far post at 6:58 of the third period. Scheifele was left unmarked at the far post and just had to tap in a pass from Ehlers.
Armia then delivered a highlight reel goal, also his second of the game, at 7:38. Armia skated between Stars defenseman Johnny Oduya and Seguin, then displayed some extraordinary stick work in front of the Dallas goal before finishing with a wrist shot inside the near post.
Trouba added an insurance tally with 4:05 remaining.
Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen stopped 17 of 20 shots in relief of Antti Niemi.
Winnipeg took a 3-0 lead into the first intermission.
Wheeler scored his 17th goal of the season 4:57 into the game when he beat Niemi with a wrist shot to his short side. Wheeler's shot sailed in just over Niemi's glove to put the visitors up 1-0.
Enstrom made it 2-0 with his second goal of the season 59 seconds later. Enstrom beat Niemi far post with a wrist shot from the left circle.
Three seconds before the first intermission, Armia made it 3-0 by beating Niemi through his five-hole with a wrist shot from the left circle. Initially, there was some doubt as to whether or not Armia had scored as time ran out and the horn sounded to end the period.
However, after a review, a goal was rewarded and 2.8 seconds were put back on the clock.
Scheifele had two assists in the first period.
Dallas stormed back in the second and trailed by just a goal at 3-2 after 40 minutes of play.
Stars coach Lindy Ruff made a change in goal to start the second period, replacing Niemi, who stopped just five of eight shots in the opening 20 minutes, with Lehtonen.
Spezza made it 3-1 with his 20th goal of the season 1:59 into the middle frame. After Hutchinson denied the initial shot by Sharp, Spezza scored with a backhand to put Dallas on the board.
Seguin then scored his 32nd goal of the season off a deflection at 3:51 with Dallas on the power play. Sharp's slap shot from the left circle struck the hand of right winger Valeri Nichushkin and the puck landed at Seguin's skates and he knocked it in to make it 2-1.
Sharp had two assists in the second period.
NOTES: LW Andrew Ladd was traded by the Jets to the Blackhawks, along with F Matt Fraser and D Jay Harrison, for F Marko Dano, a 2016 first-rounder and a conditional 2018 third-round pick. The Jets will also pick up roughly 36 percent of Ladd's salary in the deal. ... The Jets scratched C Bryan Little (back) and D Paul Postma. Jets coach Paul Maurice said after the morning skate that Little is out for the season with a compression fracture of the T6 vertebrae in his back. Little suffered the injury Feb. 18 at Tampa Bay. ... Stars D Jordie Benn, D Jamie Oleksiak and RW Patrick Eaves (illness) were scratched. ... Jets D Adam Pardy, a former Star, was appearing in his first game since Feb. 16 at Carolina. It was Pardy's third appearance over Winnipeg's past 16 games. ... Stars G Antti Niemi was starting his second consecutive game.