Lane Hutson and Kaiden Guhle, and Cole Caufield had two assists for the Canadiens (6-3-2), who have points in four straight (3-0-1).
Isak Rosen scored and Stuart Skinner made 19 saves for the Jets (4-4-3), who’ve lost five straight (0-3-2).
After a scoreless first period, Hutson made it 1-0 Canadiens at 7:19 of the second, when Noah Dobson found him backdoor with a cross-slot pass and he put it behind Skinner.
Guhle pushed it to 2-0 at 11:04, scoring with a catch-and-release wrist shot from the blue line through traffic.
Rosen scored his first goal of the season to cut it to 2-1 at 15:24 of the third period. Gabriel Vilardi set him up for a one-timer from below the right face-off dot.
