Detroit — Maybe it was the travel back from the West Coast, maybe that the Red Wings are officially in a slump.
Whatever the cause, a return home wasn’t helpful Thursday for the Wings, who lost 3-0 to the decimated Winnipeg Jets.
The Jets were without eight players, all in COVID protocol, but they did have former Ann Arbor Skyline quarterback Andrew Copp and that proved to be the difference.
Copp, a former high school football star and college hockey standout at Michigan, scored two goals leading the Jets to victory.
Kyle Connor (Shelby Township) added a shorthanded, empty-net goal and goalie Connor Hellebuyck (Commerce) stopped 33 shots, as the Jets’ Michigan connection definitely led the way.