ANAHEIM — It was an eventful day between the Jacob Trouba acquisition and the third annual Women in Sports Night at Honda Center, but there was still a game to be played on Friday night, one that unraveled in the second period for the Ducks as the Minnesota Wild cruised to a 5-1 victory.

The Ducks finalized the deal with the New York Rangers for Trouba in the early afternoon and he was still in the Big Apple Friday evening. Notably, they were also without Trevor Zegras (lower-body) and Leo Carlsson (upper-body), though GM Pat Verbeek said Carlsson could come back during the upcoming road trip.

Brock McGinn returned to action for the first time since Nov. 18 and scored the Ducks’ lone goal. Cam Fowler assisted on it and tied Corey Perry for the second-most games played in franchise history with 988. John Gibson came up with 28 of 32 saves.

Minnesota’s top trio of Kirill Kaprizov, Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi dominated as each member racked up three points. In Kaprizov’s case that meant climbing back atop the Art Ross Trophy leaderboard. Yakov Trenin added a shorthanded empty-netter. Filip Gustavsson stopped 26 shots.

The first period brought a couple hairy moments in the Ducks’ crease and a Mason McTavish partial breakaway that chipped some paint off the post. But the second period brought the game’s first power play at 4:04 and, 18 seconds later, its first goal.

Alex Killorn couldn’t reach a puck just inside the defensive blue line that was snatched up by Jared Spurgeon and moved point-to-point for Kaprizov. He found an enormous seam to send a pass to Rossi at the side of the net, where he redirected the puck skyward, roofing it for the first of his two goals.

A Brett Leason breakaway nearly recouped that goal, but Minnesota struck again — and again — at the 8:03 and 10:51 marks.

Although the Ducks had Minnesota outnumbered at the net, Rossi’s incidental contact with a shot attempt into congestion by Boldy earned him credit for his ninth goal of the season after the loose puck was inadvertently kicked in by Gibson’s left skate.

A stretch pass for Kaprizov during a Ducks line change hastened their sort-out in the defensive zone. There, Kaprizov, Rossi and Boldy went tic-tac-toe for a tap-in tally, Boldy’s 12th of the year but just his second in his past 10 games.

Late in the frame, Ryan Strome had his point-blank bid at an empty net denied by a stick check by Spurgeon and Gustavsson had the answer for McGinn’s shot from the slot.

Frank Vatrano’s unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at the end of the second period rolled a Minnesota power play into the third. Though it was technically a five-on-five marker, they extended their lead one second after Vatrano’s penalty expired.

Boldy’s flick from the center of the blue line created some loose change that Kaprizov was quick to deposit behind Gibson.

With 3:23 to play in the game, McGinn broke up what would have been Gustavsson’s league-leading third shutout when he tipped Fowler’s point shot home for his fourth goal.