WINNIPEG -- The Columbus Blue Jackets and Winnipeg Jets wanted to send themselves into the 2015 NHL All-Star Weekend with a win Wednesday.
It will be the Jets who can heal their assorted injuries after a 4-0 victory against the Blue Jackets at MTS Centre. The win was Winnipeg's fifth in a row and sixth in its past seven games (6-0-1).
Jets rookie goaltender Michael Hutchinson made 29 saves for his second NHL shutout.
The Blue Jackets go into the break with the end of two-game winning streak and unsure about the health of goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. The All-Star selection left the game 7:44 into the second period with an undisclosed injury. Curtis McElhinney finished for Columbus.
Bobrovsky, who allowed a goal on the first two shots he faced, stretched his left pad out to make a save and remained on the ice. He needed assistance leaving, putting no weight on his right leg, and went directly to the dressing room. Bobrovsky is one of three players named to represent the Blue Jackets in the 2015 Honda NHL All-Game in Columbus (forwards Nick Foligno and Ryan Johansen).
The Blue Jackets (20-22-3) also lost left wing Jeremy Morin to an upper-body injury in the second period.
Hutchinson, who has settled into a rotation with Ondrej Pavelec, shut out the Chicago Blackhawks on Nov. 2.
Blake Wheeler, Evander Kane, Jay Harrison and Chris Thorburn scored for the Jets (26-14-8).
Bobrovsky made nine saves in his eighth start in the past 10 games before McElhinney replaced him and made 16 saves in relief.
One shot and 1:08 was all the Jets needed to take a 1-0 lead. Andrew Ladd reached Wheeler with a pass into the slot that Wheeler backhanded past Bobrovsky for his 13th goal.
Kane followed at 6:06 with his 10th, a right-side shot from inside the blue line that slipped through Bobrovsky's pads. Kane has a goal in four of his past six games and three goals in the two games between the teams this season. He is the seventh Winnipeg player to reach 10 goals this season.
Moments after Winnipeg killed a second-period Columbus power play, Harrison's long left-point slap shot through a screen snuck past Bobrovsky at 4:45.
After McElhinney replaced Bobrovsky, Thorburn's fourth goal made it 4-0 at 14:10 of the second period.
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