Carter Verhaeghe scored twice, Niko Mikkola had a goal and an assist and Seth Jones had three assists for the Panthers (7-4-2), who’ve won five of seven (5-2-0). Akira Schmid made 24 saves.
Adam Lowry scored for the Jets (4-5-3), who are winless in their past six (0-4-2) after earning points in five of their first six games of the season (4-1-1). Clay Stevenson made 19 saves.
Verhaeghe made it 1-0 Panthers at 7:27 of the first period. He collected a rebound below the goal line and tucked it inside the left post for a power-play goal.
Mikkola made it 2-0 at 8:42 when his centering pass redirected off Winnipeg defenseman Mario Ferraro’s stick and over Stevenson’s glove.
Verhaeghe’s second of the game also came on the power play, when his point shot through traffic made it 3-0 at 10:18.
Lowry scored short-handed at 12:27 of the second to cut it to 3-1. Lowry produced a turnover from Schmid, who was out of his net to play the puck, and scored with a wraparound at the right post.
The goal was initially waved off by the officials, but roughly 29 seconds later, play was stopped after the Situation Room determined that the puck completely crossed the goal line.
Less than a minute later, Sam Reinhart made it 4-1 on the power play at 13:14, finishing a tic-tac-toe passing play that went from Matthew Tkachuk to Brady Tkachuk, who directed a touch pass from the goal line to Reinhart low in the slot.
Brady Tkachuk pushed it to 5-1 at 12:10 of the third with a one-handed redirect of Matthew Tkachuk’s saucer pass to the netfront on the rush.
