"He's been good ever since he got here," Senators forward Mark Stone said of Nilsson. "I think he's given us a chance to win every game he's been in there. … He]*
"Winnipeg is a really good team and a heavy team to play against," Nilsson said. "They pushed us back in the third a little bit, but I like the way we managed it and how we played in our zone. I felt like we didn't panic, we protected the middle really good."
Bryan Little and Brendan Lemieux scored, and Laurent Brossoit made 27 saves for the Jets (34-18-3), who have lost three straight for the first time this season.
"To be honest, I didn't like many of the goals that I let in today," Brossoit said. "I didn't think that they were necessarily great shots. I don't think I really forced them to beat me.
"It's a tough feeling to put a lot of pressure on your team to score, what, six to win the game. It's, of course, a game that I'm going to put behind me and move forward."