WINNIPEG, Manitoba _ If you've watched the Red Wings often enough this season, you've seen this type of loss before.
The Wings hung tough, then out of nowhere allowed three second-period goals in a span of two minutes, and it led to Winnipeg defeating the Wings, 5-1.
If the Wings allow one goal, there has to be another coming soon. It's been like that often this season and it happened once more Tuesday in Winnipeg.
The Jets' explosion changed the complexion of the game, made the third period rather uneventful and sent the Wings to another defeat.
So, if you're counting, that's 12 consecutive losses for the Wings (7-22-3) including the last 10 in regulation (0-10-2).
The Wings and Jets (19-10-2) complete the back-to-back set Thursday at Little Caesars Arena.
Goaltender Eric Comrie made his first start as a Red Wing, stopped 25 shots, and was sharp until the Jets broke open the game.
Christoffer Ehn scored the lone Wings goal _ also his first point in his 23rd game _ with a game-tying goal at 7 minutes, 39 seconds of the second period.
Ehn scored on goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (Commerce Twp.), who relieved goaltender Laurent Brossoit because of Brossoit's skate issue.
But the Jets regained control beginning with Blake Wheeler's blast in the slot at 16:43, an Andrew Copp deflection at 18:32, and Patrik Laine's breakaway at 18:43.
Just like that, in two minutes, it was 4-1 Jets and the Wings were hopelessly behind yet again.
Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele scored a power-play goal at 5:04 of the third period, pushing the Jets' lead to 5-1 _ and it was Adam Lowry who opened the Jets' scoring with a disputed short-handed goal at 12:17 of the first period.
Still, there was some hope at that point.
The Wings had a two-man advantage for 1:06 in the third period, one last chance to somewhat get back in the game, and didn't register a shot on net.
The Wings were scoreless on four power-play attempts, while killing five of six Winnipeg power plays (and allowing the one short-handed goal).
One staggering statistic to mull right now: with this loss, the goal differential is a minus-62 after 32 games. The Wings appear on their way to surpassing the 100 mark this dreary season.
