Jesper Wallstedt stopped 32 shots for his league-leading third shutout — all coming in his last four outings — as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3–0 on Sunday to earn their fifth straight win.
The victory gave Minnesota back-to-back shutouts and its fifth of the season. On Friday in Pittsburgh, Filip Gustavsson continued his resurgence with a 19-save performance in a 5–0 win.
Wallstedt, now 6-0-2, lowered his goals-against average to 1.94 as the Wild improved to 12-7-4. The 23-year-old Swede posted consecutive shutouts against Calgary and Anaheim earlier this month and made a career-high 42 saves in Wednesday’s 4–3 shootout victory over Carolina.
Kirill Kaprizov, Brock Faber, and Denis Yurov scored for Minnesota, which has collected nine wins and just one regulation loss in 11 games this month. The Wild snapped a nine-game losing streak against Winnipeg.
Jets goaltender Eric Comrie finished with 27 saves as Winnipeg fell to 12-9-0.
Kaprizov pushed the lead to 3–0 at 6:29 of the third period, beating Comrie over the shoulder from close range to extend his point streak to five games.
Minnesota’s second goal came shorthanded late in the second period. After a turnover in the Wild zone, Marcus Johansson led a 3-on-2 rush and set up Faber, who fired a shot past Comrie.
The Wild opened the scoring at 8:23 of the second when Yurov buried a feed from Yakov Trenin, moments after Wallstedt stopped Kyle Connor with a point-blank save.
Winnipeg lost defenseman Neal Pionk to an injury midway through the first period, dampening a night that also marked assistant captain Mark Scheifele’s 900th NHL game — a milestone for the franchise’s all-time leader.