"You can see how hungry they are out there, not only in games but in practice," Marleau said of Matthews and Marner, who assisted on his first goal. "They're striving to get better each and every day and you want to be part of that and you can feed off that for sure."
Marleau scored his second of the game 36 seconds into the third, his wrist shot beating Mason from the slot.
Marner made it 6-0 on the power play at 8:07.
"We did it to ourselves on some of them," Jets coach Paul Maurice said. "The third goal is a reasonably easy read to make if you're thinking about defending at that point. But we're thinking about let's get it back as fast as we can, and that is a bit of a holdover concept. And that's how you get in trouble. Relax, patience. But we blew the zone on that and got in real trouble with it."
Scheifele scored at 11:31 to make it 6-1 but Matthews scored 26 seconds later to make it 7-1.
Perreault made it 7-2 at 12:57.
"There's a lot of things that we did right tonight, and then you can see when you don't do it right you end up giving up a couple goals so it's a good reminder," Marleau said.
