The Winnipeg Jets are struggling.

Not too long after a rocky six-game road swing in which they picked up only a pair of wins, they began a five-game trip with a 4-3 loss to the Capitals in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night.

The home team got on the board first thanks to their red-hot blue line. After a misplayed pass by the Jets in the Washington zone, Tom Wilson broke up the ice with the puck. He skated into the Winnipeg end before dropping the puck to a trailing John Carlson, who blasted a shot past Eric Comrie to open the scoring at the 6:38 mark.

Later in the first, another Washington blueliner got on the scoreboard. Sonny Milano beat Gustav Nyquist to a loose puck and sent it back to the point where Jakob Chychrun whipped a perfect shot off the crossbar and in, making it the fourth

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