Van Riemsdyk made it 6-2 with 28 seconds remaining in the second, but Connor scored on the power play to make it 7-2 at 6:43 of the third after Scheifele's redirection deflected in off his skate.
Gostisbehere cut it to 7-3 at 9:41 with a shot from the right circle.
"We're just trying to find that consistency that we talked about all year long and you just worry about your next shift and doing the right things on that," van Riemsdyk said.
Nikolaj Ehlers gave the Jets a 1-0 lead at 4:57 of the first period with a one-timer off a face-off win, and Luca Sbisa made it 2-0 at 11:49.
"It's a set play," Wheeler said of Ehlers' goal. "You have him set up there for the one-timer. Ideally, you'd like to win that clean, but I was able to get enough of that puck to win it over to [Jack Roslovic] and great job by him jumping though and knowing where [Ehlers] was. Great job by those two guys."