WINNIPEG, Manitoba _ Jets center Bryan Little arrived at the front of the crease and waved his stick.
Teammate Ben Chiarot read the signal.
But the Wild didn't.
So when the puck was sent to the net, Little had ample room to redirect it in _ capitalizing on one of many defensive breakdowns by the Wild in a 7-2 rout by the Jets, the team's most lopsided loss of the season.
Although it was another loss to a rival, this wasn't the same blue line that struggled in a 6-3 loss to the Blues on Saturday.
Top-pair minute muncher Jared Spurgeon was out, sidelined with a groin strain, and Ryan Murphy made his Wild debut after getting called up from Iowa of the American Hockey League earlier in the day.
And it looked like the reconfigured back end could be spending much of the night in its own zone after the Jets made an early push.
But the Wild weathered it and eventually found a groove at the other end of the ice.
Center Charlie Coyle led a three-on-one rush and set up winger Jason Zucker, who lifted a backhand over Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck 8 minutes, 1 second into the first period for his team-leading 13th goal.
Less than five minutes later, it looked like Coyle had orchestrated another goal. His breakaway shot was stopped, but winger Zack Mitchell buried the rebound. But after the Jets issued a coach's challenge, video review showed Coyle was off-side on the play to negate the goal.
That didn't deter the Wild; at 13:54, the team scored again and this time the goal stood. Center Matt Cullen passed up an in-tight shot on Hellebuyck and instead dished off to winger Chris Stewart, who slung the puck in for his first goal and point in 17 games.
But the Jets rallied, tying it at 2 before the period adjourned.
Winger Joel Armia finished off a loose rebound after center Matt Hendricks tipped a Josh Morrissey point shot at 15:47. And then with 2:45 remaining in the period, center Mark Scheifele converted on the power play with a slick backdoor one-timer.
The Jets carried that late-period surge into the second, gaining separation amid more porous play in the Wild's zone.
Scheifele split the defense and then fed the trailer on the play, defenseman Jacob Trouba, who wired the puck by goalie Alex Stalock at 10:57. Then with 5:41 left in the period, center Mathieu Perreault was left all alone in the slot to unleash a one-timer that put the Jets up 4-2.
It didn't get any better for the Wild in the third.
Winger Kyle Connor pushed in a loose puck in front at 5:13 on the power play after captain Blake Wheeler created the chance by cutting to the net _ the fifth goal given up by the Wild's penalty kill in the last two games.
Overall, the Jets went 2-for-4 with the man advantage while the Wild was 0-for-1.
Just 1:05 after Connor's goal, the Wild surrendered a sixth goal for the second straight game on the deflection by Little. A scrum broke out afterward, and defenseman Kyle Quincey was sent off _ receiving four minutes of roughing penalties and a 10-minute misconduct.
Quincey was a team-worst minus-3 in the game.
The Jets added a seventh at 13:26 when Wheeler's pass during a two-on-one rush banked off defenseman Jonas Brodin's skate and past Stalock, who finished with 21 saves. Hellebuyck posted 17.
