WINNIPEG - Chris Thorburn did his part to give himself and Winnipeg Jets fans a good memory of the team's last home game of the season.

The fan favourite ended a 47-game goal-scoring drought as the Jets (32-39-8) dropped the Minnesota Wild 5-1 on Sunday.

Fans gave the playoff-less team a standing ovation with shouts of "Go Jets Go" during the final minute of the game at MTS Centre and the players raised their sticks to the crowd after the final buzzer.

"It's great, just to kind of let them loose a little bit," Thorburn said after his sixth goal of the season. "We haven't given much at home to cheer about."

Mark Scheifele scored his team-leading 27th goal of the season. Rookie Andrew Copp, Drew Stafford and Blake Wheeler, with an empty-netter, also scored. Goalie Ondrej Pavelec made 28 saves for Winnipeg.

Wild centre Mikael Granlund scored his 13th goal of the season, with Mikko Koivu picking up an assist to give him 10 points in his last 10 games, including two goals.

Devan Dubnyk stopped 29 of the 33 shots he faced for the Wild (38-31-11), who dropped their third straight game and failed in their attempt to clinch a playoff berth.

"We're going to get throttled if we're going to play like this going in," Dubnyk said. "(But) I'm not worried about it. I don't think we are. But I think we all know that's not even going to come close come playoff time.

"We don't want to be sliding in. We've got two games to get on track and get going and I'm sure that's what we'll do."

Minnesota could have secured a Western Conference wild-card spot with a win and a loss by Colorado.

The Wild hold the second wild-card berth with 87 points and remain five points ahead of the Avalanche, who have a game in hand.

"I don't even care about the situation," Koivu said. "We're talking about getting our team game better. You can win or you can lose, but as long as we play like that it's not acceptable."

Minnesota ends its regular season hosting San Jose and Calgary.

The Jets finish with an 18-19-4 home record and wrap up their season on a three-game road trip with stops in Anaheim, San Jose and Los Angeles.

"It's going to be a tough road trip, but we're not looking to just mail it in," Copp said. "We're looking to go and win those games in California."

Scheifele's goal extended his point streak to seven games, with four goals and 10 points during that span.

He recorded Winnipeg's first power-play goal in 11 games at 17:55 of the first period with Wild forward Nino Niederreiter in the penalty box for hooking.

Thorburn's first goal since Dec. 15 came on a breakaway after a Wild pass hit the stick of Jet Matt Halischuk and slid up to Thorburn, who beat Dubnyk low on the blocker side at 12:37 of the second for the 2-0 lead.

Nikolaj Ehlers had come off the ice at a bad time with the Jets in their own end. Thorburn took Ehlers place and let the rookie know about his mistake.

"It went from being a bad change to a great change," Thorburn said with a chuckle. "As soon as I finished yelling at him when I was on the ice, the puck popped and I was just like, 'Holy crow, I think I got a breakaway'. And I turned and no one was around. I went quick shot and I was fortunate it went in."

Granlund made it 2-1 with his goal at 7:37 of the third, but Copp replied at 9:03 when he went between two defenders and put a shot between Dubnyk's pads.

Stafford notched his 21st goal of the season at 12:55 on the power play, while Wheeler's empty-netter at 17:16 for his 23rd of the season boosted his point streak to eight games with 11 points, including five goals.