WINNIPEG -- Forward Drew Stafford scored twice to help the Winnipeg Jets defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-1 at MTS Centre on Wednesday.
The Jets, who entered the game on a 3-8-1 slide, scored six unanswered goals to open a stretch of five of seven games on home ice with a victory. They played 10 of 14 games on the road in November, winning two (2-7-1).
Each team started a 22-year-old American goaltender playing his second NHL game. Toronto's Garret Sparks made 29 saves, and Winnipeg's Connor Hellebuyck made 32.
The loss started a three-game Central Division road trip for the Maple Leafs, who visit the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
Mark Scheifele had a goal and two assists, and Mathieu Perreault had two assists.
Toronto took a 1-0 lead on Michael Grabner's first goal of the season 2:02 into the game. Drew Stafford's goal 6:23 later evened the score, and Stafford made it 2-1 with a power-play goal with 2:28 to go in the period.
Two third-period goals broke open the game for the Jets. Scheifele scored at 1:25, and Andrew Ladd's goal 1:18 later made it 4-1. Bryan Little scored his 10th goal at 10:53, and Anthony Peluso's first goal of the season finished the scoring at 17:53.
An ill-timed attempt at a neutral-zone hit by Winnipeg defenseman Mark Stuart helped to set up Toronto's goal. Nick Spaling and Daniel Winnik slipped past Stuart deep into the Jets zone, where Winnik sent a pass through the slot to Grabner for a tap-in past Hellebuyck.
But Winnipeg's second line of Scheifele, Stafford and Perreault took over from there.
Stafford backhanded a pass from Scheifele on a 2-on-1 rush past Sparks for his first goal of the night. Leo Komarov's tripping penalty set up Winnipeg's second power play, and Stafford settled down the rebound of a Nikolaj Ehlers shot and put it past Sparks for his ninth goal.
Perreault drove the Toronto net, and Scheifele put the loose puck past Sparks for the first of four Jets goals in the third period. Ladd's seventh goal, on an off-wing rising wrist shot, followed at 2:43.
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