The Wild didn't have Ryan Reaves in action when the puck dropped against the Jets hours after trading for the veteran forward, but they played like they did.
After adding Reaves to shore up their size and swagger, the Wild dished out their most assertive performance of the season in a 6-1 blitz of Winnipeg on Wednesday in front of 17,450 at Xcel Energy Center to improve to 2-1 on a seven-game homestand.
"We've had that [the] last couple games," Matt Dumba said. "We know we've had to be better at home, and I think that's shown in our last few that we're rising to that challenge and trying to be at the best of our abilities."
Matt Boldy chipped in a goal and two assists, Marcus Foligno scored twice to end an 11-game rut and Kirill Kaprizov extended his point streak to seven games with a pair of points that included his first tally in six.
At the other end of the rink, goaltender Filip Gustavsson made 28 stops for back-to-back wins in place of injured starter Marc-Andre Fleury.
Overall, 10 Wild players factored into the offense, which tied a season high in production; six on the Wild turned in multipoint efforts including Calen Addison (goal and assist), Joel Eriksson Ek and Dumba (two assists each). The 39 shots the Wild directed at Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck were one shy of their season high.
"We shot a lot of pucks," said Foligno, who left the ice late in the third period after taking a stick to the ear. "We kept it simple. We went to the net. We just played our game."
Mason Shaw got the ball rolling during a first period dictated by the Wild, his shot off a Dumba feed hitting Hellebuyck and then the back of defender Josh Morrissey's leg before tumbling into the net at 8 minutes, 20 seconds.