ST. PAUL, Minn — Blake Wheeler called it the perfect road game. Mathieu Perreault felt it injected life into the locker-room. Paul Maurice said he could talk about the play of every guy on his team — and he almost did.
"That’s usually a good sign," said the Jets coach.
From every vantage point, the 1-0 shutout win over the Minnesota Wild at Xcel Energy Center Friday night offered another monster boost for a Jets team that earlier this week was beginning to question its fight. Down a few keys pieces — Mark Scheifele, Drew Stafford and Adam Lowry were out with injuries — and at the end of games on back-to-back nights, two points against a divisional rival wasn’t the only thing the Jets brought back with them.