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http://www.newenglandpatriotsteamonline.com/trent-brown-jersey , Minn. (AP) Those Minnesota Wild fans waiting in concession lines or lingering
too long in the concourse during the first intermission sure missed a show.
Eric Staal has put on quite the must-see performance himself this season.
Staal’s second goal of the night for Minnesota capped a franchise-record flurry to start the second period, and the Wild cruised to a 6-2 victory over
the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.
Article continues below ... ”Everything he touches,” coach Bruce Boudreau said, invoking the Greek mythological king Midas, ”it turns into gold.”
Staal, the second overall pick in the 2003 draft by the Hurricanes who spent 13 years with the club until a late-season trade, has 64 goals in 149 games with
the Wild. That’s tied for ninth in the NHL over the last two years. He’s also
tied for 17th with 132 points, and he’s older than every player ahead of him in
that span.
This season
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Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine.
”I’ve got a lot of work to do if I want to catch or be around those guys,” Staal said with a slight smile. ”I’m just going to keep playing.”
Nino Niederreiter, Zach Parise, Daniel Winnik and Staal scored in a span of 3:28, the fastest four-goal stretch in Wild history that gave the home team a
huge lead less than four minutes after the first intermission ended.
The sign that this was the Wild’s night came quickly in the second period, when Jared Spurgeon’s slap shot from the point bounced off the neck of a ducking
Niederreiter and past goalie Cam Ward with just 23 seconds elapsed.
”We’ve got to come out of the dressing room a little bit more organized and ready to play
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Winnik scored on his 33rd birthday, prompting Peters to pull Ward for Scott Darling. Then, just 15 seconds later, on the first shot Darling faced, Staal
broke free in the Carolina zone, faked right and dragged the puck left to poke a
backhander in for his 10th goal in the last nine games .
”I want to win every time I get on the ice,” Staal said. ”But when you pump ’em in like that for a bit, I think you feel a little bad.”
In seven games since Jason Zucker and Mikael Granlund joined Staal on the first line
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season of his career.
”I don’t think anybody would’ve thought he’d have 36 goals at this stage of the game,” Boudreau said. ”I remember when we signed him, when we were talking
in the room, and thinking if he could give us 50 to 60 points we would think it
was a great signing.”
Staal’s first score came 4:35 into the game on the power play after a tripping call on Victor Rask, adding to Carolina’s NHL-leading penalty total.
Parise’s goal was also with the man advantage for the Wild, who entered the game
ranked eighth in the league on the power play. The Hurricanes came in 22nd on
the penalty kill.
The Wild, whose post-New Year’s Day surge has thrust them into third place in the Central Division
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spot, to three points.
Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves for his fifth win in his last six starts, and the Wild raised their home record to an NHL-leading 24-5-6. Matt Cullen, another
long-time former Hurricanes player who teamed with Staal on the 2006 Stanley Cup
champion squad, scored late for the Wild.
Phillip Di Giuseppe and Derek Ryan scored for Carolina in the third period on Dubnyk, who has allowed only nine goals over his last five victories.
The Hurricanes lost points on each of the competitors in the Eastern Conference wild card race, with New Jersey (76) and Columbus (73) currently
holding the two spots and Florida (71) also ahead of Carolina (69).
”Let’s look past this one
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NOTES
Dubnyk’s last shutout was on Feb. 10, a 44-save performance against Chicago. … Wild rookie D Nick Seeler was ruled out with a strained right biceps, two
nights after he engaged in an old-style, bloody fight with Detroit’s Luke
Witkowski. … Hurricanes LW Joakim Nordstrom missed his fourth straight game
because of an upper-body injury. … Spurgeon and Ryan Suter had two assists
apiece. Wild defensemen have 166 points in 67 games, the second-most in the NHL
behind Nashville. The franchise record is 169. … The Hurricanes had 31 shots on
goal and lead the NHL with 52 games of 30-plus shots.
UP NEXT
Hurricanes: Play at Chicago on Thursday, their last of three straight games against Central Division foes.
Wild: Play at Vancouver on Friday, followed by a back-to-back game at Edmonton on Saturday.
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