WINNIPEG - It was as close to home as Cody McLeod will ever play a National Hockey League game, and he was only happy to oblige his family in attendance and those back home.

"It's a small farming community," said McLeod of his hometown Binscarth, Man., a four hour drive west from Winnipeg. McLeod's father Pete, along with some friends, were at MTS Centre as the Colorado Avalanche beat the Jets 4-1 on Monday night.

"A lot of people back there are Jets fans so it's good to beat them," he said.

McLeod scored the winner, added and assist and even took the fists out of the drawer in the win.

McLeod's goal wasn't highlight-reel material by any means. Former Jets defenceman Zach Redmond's shot from in close clipped McLeod and rolled past Winnipeg goaltender Michael Hutchinson for his fifth goal of the season at the 6:45 mark of the third.

"It went in off my shin pad. I don't even know if Hutchinson stopped it and it came off me or if it was a rebound off my shin pad," he said. "Just go to the net, drive the net. If you look at the goals in the league now, you go to the net and they're usually rebounds."

Carl Soderberg, Matt Duchene, and Blake Comeau, who hit the empty net, also scored as the Avalanche (8-12-1) snapped a three-game losing streak.

"It was our seventh game of our road trip," said Colorado head coach Patrick Roy. "Sometimes you can lose your focus. I'm very proud of our guys who stayed focused and paid attention to the details of the game. I thought we did a good job defending and we found ways to score the big goals."

Toby Enstrom scored the lone goal for the Jets (10-10-2), who dropped back to .500 on the season.

Semyon Varlamov record his fourth win of the season with 20 saves, while Hutchinson took his fourth loss of the season, allowing three goals on 28 shots.

Two big saves by Hutchinson at one end were followed up by Enstrom's first of the season moments later to give Winnipeg a 1-0 lead by the 13:40 mark of the first period.

The goal was the first in 41 games for Enstrom dating back to Feb. 19.

Varlamov came up big on consecutive Jets chances in the second period - first Drew Stafford and then Mathieu Perreault - to keep the deficit at one.

And with the Avs on the power play, Soderberg's shot in front caromed of the skate of Winnipeg defenceman Tyler Myers and past Hutchinson to tie the game at 1-1 at the 16:43 mark of the second.

The Jets were left to lick their wounds on a game some felt they deserved to win.

"To be blunt, I thought we dominated — especially the first two periods," Myers said. "We were just playing catch up in the third. I thought in the first two periods we did exactly what we wanted to.

"You don't come out of too many losses thinking you deserved to win the game. We did a lot of really good things tonight. We controlled the puck in their end. I just thought we could have done a better job of getting the puck to the net. But there's a lot of positives to take away from this game."

The Jets head on the road for three games to close out November, with their first stop coming on Wednesday against the Washington Capitals.

The Avs return home from their longest road trip of the season - a seven-game, 15-night trek. They play next on Wednesday night against the Ottawa Senators.

Notes: Jets No. 1 netminder Ondrej Pavelec will be out until at least January with a strained knee suffered on a collision with Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan on Saturday night… The Avs wrapped up a season-long seven-game road trip on Monday night. The trip matched the longest in Avalanche history.