RALEIGH, N. Ereck Flowers Jersey .C. - Blake Wheeler wasnt going to let the Winnipeg Jets lose two straight. So he scored twice and got an assist in their 3-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.The Jets rebounded from a shutout loss in their last outing and raised their record to 7-1-2 in their last 10 games.Wheeler said good teams dont lose two in a row often.We like the way weve been playing recently and we didnt want to get away from that because of one loss, Wheeler said. Were a confident group right now. You never want to lose two games in a row. Thats a staple of good teams, teams that are playoff-calibre teams. We didnt want to let this slide.After winning four straight, Carolina has lost two of the last three games.Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said his team didnt match Winnipegs intensity.I didnt like our start again, Peters said. Usually we have more energy that we had tonight and for whatever reason we didnt have a lot of energy and never really got going.The Jets outshot Carolina 8-1 to start the game. Winnipeg finished with a 13-6 shot advantage in the period and outshot Carolina 37-23 in the game.Wheeler gave the Jets a 1-0 lead at 5:29 of the first period to get his team going.We just tried to get a couple of pucks going to the net and it was great to see a few finally hit the net, Wheeler said.Elias Lindholm, who has points in six of the last seven games for the Hurricanes, scored on the power play to tie the game 1-1 at 3:44 of the second period.But it didnt last as Wheeler scored on a tip-in at the front of the net to put the Jets back in the lead 2-1 at 13:02. It was his team-leading seventh goal of the season.Michael Frolik put the game out of reach with an empty-net goal for Winnipeg with 1:30 left in the game.Hurricanes goalkeeper Cam Ward, who finished with a season-high 34 saves, had his five-game winning streak snapped.Winnipeg backup goalkeeper Michael Hutchinson (2-1-0) saw his first action in 11 days and earned the win with 22 saves.Defensively, the guys did a good job of letting me see pucks, Hutchinson said. All in all, it was a pretty easy night. Ive been fortunate that my last two starts, weve had really good starts with some early goals. That always makes the game that much easier.The Hurricanes were 1-for-3 on the power play, while Winnipeg went 0-for-2 with the man-advantage.NOTES: Winnipeg RW Blake Wheeler had his second multi-goal game of the season. His first came in the season opener on Oct. 9 at Arizona. ... The Hurricanes have recorded power-play goals in six of their last seven games, including the last four straight. 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The latest setback came Tuesday, when the Pittsburgh Penguins scored twice in the final 1:11 of regulation with their goalie pulled to tie the game before winning 5-4 in a shootout. All told, the Canucks have given up six goals in five games this season when opponents have their goalie on the bench for an extra attacker. "Late in games, I always talk about situational play," Canucks head coach John Tortorella said after Thursdays practice at Rogers Arena. "Situational play is a mindset and we have not totally grasped that. Thats a mental toughness, to me. I believe you can develop that type of mental toughness -- to play in the (hard) areas at certain times, at certain (moments) of games. "I think at times weve done it this year, and obviously of late here, we havent." Tortorella said the only way to deal with blown leads is to get back on the horse. "You hope youre leading again 3-2 in the third period ... and you find a way to get it done," he said. "You need to grasp something." Tortorella said that for him, the most fascinating part of coaching is the mind, adding that its his job to make sure players learn how to be tough mentally game in and game out. "I tell the players theyre screwed -- if I see it once, I know its there," said Tortorella. "When you show signs you can do it, then you need to demand yourself to do it more consistently. Thats a big part of our responsibility. Ive seen us play stiff enough to handle situations. "When youre developing an identity of a hockey club, it falls on the coach to demand it and keep it there. Im in it with them as far this little slump here." Vancouvers current losing streak includes road defeats to the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks. Thhe Canucks currently sit in the first wildcard position, but they host the powerhouse St. Roger Lewis Jersey. Louis Blues on Friday before travelling back to Los Angeles and Anaheim as part of a three-game roadtrip. "The schedules not getting any easier," said Canucks defenceman Kevin Bieksa. "Weve got a lot teams that are ahead of us in the standings that were playing. These are the teams we have to beat if we want to catch them." Bieksa said the players arent dwelling on the late-game collapses, but are instead trying to learn from the mistakes. "Sometimes maybe we clench up a bit towards the end of the game with the lead because weve lost it so many times and its in the back of guys head," he said. "You still have to go out there and make a play. Its not just going back and just hammering pucks around the boards and shooting it out and then they come right back on you. "Somebodys got to make a play. Somebodys got to make a tape-to-tape pass. Somebodys got to hold onto a puck down low and kill some time. Someones got to beat a guy and get a shot on net. Its just a mindset of continuing to play the same way." Apart from blowing leads, the Canucks have also had a miserable time in the shootout this season. Vancouver has a meagre 2-6 record and is a combined 4-for-32 on shootout attempts. Tortorella had the Canucks practice the shootout for nearly 15 minutes at the end of practice on Thursday, with fourth-liner Zac Dalpe and defenceman Jason Garrison finding a measure of success. Tortorella downplayed the exercise, saying its impossible to mimic game shootout conditions in practice, before sharing what he thought of NHL games being decided by a skills competition. "It should be out of the league," he said. "That gimmick should be out of the league." Note: Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows and defenceman Alexander Edler were both full participants at Thursdays practice, but Tortorella said neither has been cleared to play. Burrows has been out with a broken jaw, while Edler has been sidelined by a knee injury. 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