One team had an eight-game losing streak and went 1-11-2 in a stretch of its season. The other’s worst run was 0-5-1. Which one’s headed to the Stanley Cup playoffs? If you said the Minnesota Wild, who lost eight in a row into mid-February, you got it right. The Wild, with a win tonight here against the Winnipeg Jets and a Colorado regulation loss against St. Louis, can clinch a spot in the spring tournament again. Tonight’s game time is 7 p.m. at the MTS Centre (Sportsnet, TSN1290). The Jets’ worst streak of the season was just that six games, but the fact they’ve been unable to win even three in a row at any point this season has relegated them to also-ran status for the season.
Jets playing for pride tonight as they face Wild
