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ST. PAUL Womens Jared McCann 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.”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, he’s tied for fourth in the league with 36 goals, trailing Washington’s Alex Ovechkin, Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin and 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,” Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said.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 Jonathan Huberdeau Jersey , 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, the trio has combined for 16 goals and 19 assists. With 15 games to go, Staal has a solid chance at the third 40-goal 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, are 10-3-2 in their last 12 games. They pushed their lead over fourth-place Dallas, which controls the first wild card 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 http://www.floridapanthersteamshops.com/authentic-keith-yandle-jersey ,” Ryan said. ”Let’s get rid of it and move on.”NOTESDubnyk’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 NEXTHurricanes: 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.— CHICAGO — All four of the Chicago Blackhawks games this season have been decided in overtime, which has already created its fair share of drama for a team attempting to bounce back from missing the playoffs for the first time in a decade.The Blackhawks have seen a resurgence from captain Jonathan Toews and yet must remain patient for starting goaltender Corey Crawford to overcome concussion symptoms that he has been experiencing since leaving the lineup last December.So as Chicago prepares to welcome the St. Louis Blues to the United Center on Saturday, the Blackhawks remain, in many ways, a mystery regarding what is to come as the season gets rolling.Article continues below ...The Blackhawks (2-0-2) will attempt to bounce back from a stinging 4-3 overtime loss to the Minnesota Wild on Thursday when Chicago held a lead with 30 seconds remaining in the third period only to watch Cam Ward allow the tying goal with 23 seconds left in regulation and then another goal in overtime.“They sting because you know (the victory) is right there,” Ward told reporters, according to The Athletic, after finishing the loss with 42 saves. “…You know things we’ll look at and try to work on at being better at closing it out late in the third period. You know the guys worked hard. It was right there for us like I said.”Crawford is expected to return to game action next week, but Ward — who has been inconsistent in his four starts this season — knows that as the Blackhawks attempt to establish their footing early on, he has to do his part. That starts Saturday against the Blues, a team the Blackhawks have already defeated in overtime this season.“I’m motivated to stop the puck — that’s my job,” Ward said Thursday, according to the Chicago Tribune. Meanwhile, the Blues (1-1-1) will travel to Chicago fresh off a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday.The victory Womens Authentic Nick Bjugstad Jersey , thanks largely to David Perron’s hat trick and three assists from Brayden Schenn, finally put the Blues in the win column.St. Louis reached the five-goal plateau after twice surrendering five goals in losses to both the Winnipeg Jets and Blackhawks before having most of this week to work out the kinks in practice before returning to game action on Thursday.Now, with a win out of the way, the Blues will attempt to keep building on Saturday in Chicago.“We had a good practice week,” Perron told reporters on Thursday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “A lot of people, I think, were starting to panic, but I don’t think the players were. We put in the work this week (and) we just keep going. It’s one win. We’ve got more games ahead soon here. Let’s keep focusing on that.”On Saturday, the Blues may be without forward Jaden Schwartz, who sustained a lower body injury in the win over the Flames. According to the Post-Dispatch, Schwartz took a shot from teammate Vladimir Tarasenko that went off Schwartz’s right foot about three minutes into Thursday’s game. Schwartz finished the game, but was clearly in pain.Blues coach Mike Yeo said Schwartz is questionable to doubtful against Chicago.“I haven’t been told that he’s out for tomorrow,” Yeo told reporters Friday, according to the Post-Dispatch. “It’s certainly not something we expect to be long-term, but he’s a question mark for (Saturday).”