Penalties were the story, as the teams combined for 17 minors, resulting in just 33 minutes of 5-on-5 play.
"We had a big group of veteran guys and we slowly started getting them worked into the power play (during practice)," said Head Coach Paul Maurice. "We got those guys almost 10 minutes of power-play time. Some of it looked nice, some of it looked like it was the first exhibition game."
As always at this time of year, the most important thing on this night was the evaluation process, and that will continue to be the priority until the roster is finalized ahead of the regular-season opener on Oct. 4.
But with a mostly veteran roster, it was also a chance to work on things like chemistry, as exhibited by Laine, Mark Scheifele and Blake Wheeler, who in their brief moments of even-strength ice, had the puck on a string in the offensive zone.
Still…
"There wouldn't be a whole lot of group evaluation after that game," Maurice said.
Not with that many penalties.
The Jets opened the scoring with a power-play goal just 46 seconds into the game. Perreault took a pass from Nikolaj Ehlers at the side of the net, juked his way to the front and swept a quick shot off the far post and in to give the give home side a 1-0 lead.