from Kevin Allen of Detroit Hockey Now,

If there was ever a time when the Jets looked beatable, it was Friday night.

But the Detroit Red Wings were not the same team they were on Tuesday when they beat the Carolina Hurricanes. Goalie Magnus Hellberg didn’t play at the same level Alex Nedeljkovic was at against the Hurricanes. The previously struggling Jets claimed a 3-0 first-period lead and rode it to a 6-2 win against the Red Wings.

Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness recently called out his top players for not doing more. Connor, Wheeler and Mark Scheifele all scored for the Jets against Detroit.

“We needed something to spark us,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde told Bally Sports. “We had the first really good look; we bury that, maybe it’s different. Needed something to energize us. It was one of those nights we couldn’t keep it out of our net, especially early on. We just couldn’t build on anything.”

This was the ninth consecutive time the Red Wings have scored two or fewer goals in regulation in a road game.

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via Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News,

Before the game, coach Derek Lalonde said forward Marco Kasper, the Wings' first-round draft pick last July who Thursday was recalled to the NHL, is likely to play in one of these final seven games of the season. But Kasper is dealing with an upper-body injury suffered late in Kasper's Swedish Hockey League season and isn't quite yet available to play.

Defenseman Simon Edvinsson was a healthy scratch Friday as the Wings keep him under nine games played (and not burning a year of three-year entry-level contract).

Watch Walman. Hellberg and Lalonde post game video below.