Postgame Hat Trick: Wild 3, Jets 1

Wild.com's Dan Myers gives three takeaways from the Wild's 3-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon:

1. Minnesota needed that one.
The Wild entered play on a five-game losing streak on Saturday, a streak that went up in smoke in one of the League's toughest barns for visitors to play in.
It hasn't been all bad for the Wild during that losing streak. Minnesota has outshot its opponent in all five of those games, including a season-high 48 shots in a 5-2 loss in Chicago on Thursday.
Finishing has been a problem during that stretch however. The Wild scored more than one goal just once during its losing streak, and even then, Minnesota's second goal came with under a minute to play with the team down 4-1 at the time.
On Saturday, the Wild dictated the pace of the game, scored the game's first goal, and played an all-around solid, consistent game in one of its most impressive wins of the season.
2. It didn't take long for Matt Bartkowski to introduce himself to Wild fans.
Officially recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League before the game, Bartkowski scored his first goal in a Wild uniform at the end of just his third shift over the boards 9:28 into the contest.
In the lineup because of an upper-body injury to Nick Seeler, Bartkowski has been solid in 28 games with Iowa this season, scoring a pair of goals and seven assists while posting a plus-11, tied for second-best on the club.

For Bartkowski, it was his eighth career NHL goal in his 254th game in the League and his first since March 25, 2017. He went goalless in 18 games with the Calgary Flames last season, had one goal in 24 games with the Flames the year before that, but had a career-best six goals in 80 games with the Vancouver Canucks in 2015-16.
A seventh-round pick of the Florida Panthers in 2008, Bartkowski also skated in parts of five seasons with the Boston Bruins before shifting to the Western Conference in 2015.
3. Minnesota extended its lead in the second on a goal by Charlie Coyle.
Luke Kunin earned his first point of the season on the play, when his initial shot hit a defenseman with Minnesota on a 3-on-3 rush. The puck went right to Coyle, who was chugging hard towards the front of the net. He did the work from there, lifting a quick shot under the crossbar for his sixth goal of the season.

The goal gave Minnesota its first two-goal lead in more than two weeks, when it won 5-1 against the Florida Panthers on Dec. 13.