Nino Niederreiter scored twice and the Jets scored twice Winnipeg defeated the Minnesota Wild 4-2 on Saturday.
Axel Jonsson-Fjallby and Alex Iafallo also scored for the Jets. Matt Boldy and Ryan Hartman replied for the Wild.
Connor Hellebuyck stopped 34 shots for the Jets. playing to a sold-out crowd of 15,325 in Canada Life Centre for the first time this season.
At the other end of the ice, Filip Gustavsson shot 19 before being replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury on the return of the Second intermission. Fleury stopped nine shots.
The Wild cut the deficit to 3-2 just 20 seconds into the game in the third period, when Boldy capitalized on a rebound after a lancer de Kirill Kaprizov.
Jonsson-Fjallby restored the Jets’ two-goal cushion to the 2:46, beating Fleury from a tight angle.
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