ST. PAUL http://www.bluejacketsshoponline.com/authentic-zach-werenski-jersey , Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Wild coach Bruce Boudreau let out a big sigh.An impressive rally in an emotional game drained the veteran coach.Eric Staal scored with 2:31 remaining to send Minnesota to a 4-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets in an edgy, penalty-filled matchup on Friday.Nino Niederreiter, Eric Fehr and Zach Parise also scored for the Wild, who trailed 2-0 after two periods. Alex Stalock made 26 saves while filling in for Devan Dubnyk, who was scratched with an illness.“The whole night was competitive and emotional, but especially the third period,” Staal said. “Things happen in a game. You got to do your best at times to keep it even-keel. Sometimes it’s more difficult than others, but you see that emotion sometimes spill over. It did on a couple plays. At the end of the night, it was fortunate for us to come out on the other side of it.”Patrik Laine scored for the sixth time in three games for the Jets Authentic Alexander Radulov Jersey , who dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season. Nikolaj Ehlers added his fifth goal of the season, and Connor Hellebuyck made 35 saves.“Up until today, we’re winning a lot more than we’re losing recently, so the sky isn’t falling,” Winnipeg forward Blake Wheeler said. “It’s just on the road there’s going to be momentum changes. They’re probably going to score a goal more than likely and we just got to face that adversity and do a better job of that.”A tense affair between Central Division rivals boiled over in the third.Minnesota’s J.T. Brown hit Winnipeg forward Andrew Copp into the glass near the Jets’ bench, causing Copp to go to the ice. After several minutes, Copp skated off and went to the locker room.A few minutes later, Winnipeg’s Adam Lowry hit Joel Ericksson Ek with an elbow, starting a melee that ended up in the Jets’ bench. Wild defenseman Nick Seeler confronted Lowry after the hit and Lowry shoved Seeler into the bench area with the door open for an expected line change. Minnesota’s Marcus Foligno jumped in and both Wild players ended up on the bench.“I haven’t seen any of that kind of stuff in a long time Womens Ben Bishop Jersey ,” Boudreau said. “I’m sure I’ll watch it again tonight on TV. It gets everybody whether it’s the crowd or whether it gets the players or whether it gets the coaches, it gets them all revved up. That was an emotional game that was fun.”Minnesota’s Ryan Suter was called for roughing later, but Staal scored after the penalty expired, notching his second straight game-winning goal.Parise added an empty-netter to finish the flurry.“We realized last year, we got bounced around a little bit,” Foligno said. “It’s not like you got to start cheap-shotting guys. It’s not like that, but you got to play strong and win your one-on-one battles, and I think you saw it tonight with a lot of extra efforts from our guys.”Laine scored for the third straight game to open the scoring in the first. He leads the league with 10 goals in November, running his total to 14 for the season.Minnesota had a power-play goal in five straight games and seven overall in that span but was 0 for 6 on Friday.“I think we kind of let the game get away from us http://www.starsshoponline.com/authentic-brett-ritchie-jersey ,” Lowry said. “They got a couple good bounces and that’s the difference tonight. … I don’t know if that’s all the PK’s in the second period or what the cause was but we weren’t ourselves in the third.”NOTES: Jets coach Paul Maurice said Copp is going through concussion testing. … Winnipeg entered with the seventh-best penalty kill on the road this season, killing off 81.3 percent of its short-handed situations. … Niederreiter had a goal and assist after being demoted to the fourth line. . Wild opponents have scored the first goal in 15 of the past 21 games. Minnesota is 9-5-1 in those games. … It was the first meeting between the teams since Winnipeg beat Minnesota in a five-game series in the playoffs last season.UP NEXTJets: Play the second game of a back-to-back at St. Louis on Saturday.Wild: Host Arizona on Tuesday. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Even the simplest of tasks like breathing and eating were painstakingly difficult for Logan Couture heading into the playoffs a year ago.An errant puck had shattered his face and the injuries hampered Couture during San Jose’s first-round loss to Edmonton. They weren’t fully healed until the summer. The Sharks are counting heavily on a now healthy Couture to anchor a long playoff run this year starting Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round series at Anaheim.”It was tough,” Couture said about playing through the injury a year ago. ”It was very difficult. I went from playing to not knowing if I would be playing in the playoffs. The injury, it affected my life more than hockey. It was difficult just waking up and dealing with day to day stuff. But I’m happy, happy to be healthy.”Couture was hit in the mouth a year ago by a shot from teammate Brent Burns and missed the final seven games of the regular season with two fractures in his face. He came back for the playoffs with plastic and wiring to keep his teeth in place and played all six games, scoring two goals in a Game 4 victory, but he was far from his usual self.Couture was a main factor in San Jose’s run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016, leading the NHL with 30 points that postseason before the Sharks lost in six games to Pittsburgh. He’s hoping for the same type of spring this year.”That was probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing hockey Dennis Cholowski Jersey Womens ,” he said. ”Just a blast to go to the rink every day. That was a special group that we had that year. It’s different each year obviously when personnel changes. I think about that run quite a bit, just how much fun it was. Just hoping to relive it.”As well as he played during that run, Couture might be at his peak heading into this year’s playoffs after scoring a career-high 34 goals this season, posting 61 points and having the usual responsibility of trying to slow down the opponent’s top scoring line.That performance helped the Sharks overcome the loss of Patrick Marleau to free agency last summer and Joe Thornton to a knee injury in January and helped Couture win the team’s MVP award, although he has loftier goals still in mind.”I’ve felt good. The puck’s gone in for me. That’s the big thing. Just capitalized on opportunities. Scoring 34 goals is pretty cool. Definitely to be up in the top 20 in goal scorers in this league, in the best league in the world, is special for sure,” Couture said.”The season’s not over. Obviously the goal for myself, and as well as our team http://www.starsshoponline.com/authentic-devin-shore-jersey , is to win it all. It’s tough to say it’s been a successful year until the year’s done.”Couture will have plenty of responsibility this series to make sure the season doesn’t end too soon.He’ll be a main part of the top power-play unit, one of the team’s most important penalty killers, tasked with slowing down Ryan Getzlaf’s line and provide offense of his own.”The one thing about Logan is he has the ability to raise his level in important moments, in important times of the year as he’s shown in my time here,” coach Peter DeBoer said. ”I expect the same thing. I think we kind of take it for granted but that’s what he is. He’s a great player and he has that ability.”NOTES: DeBoer would not rule Thornton out for the series, saying only he wouldn’t play Game 1. … Eric Fehr and Melker Karlsson, who missed time late in the season, worked on the fourth line at practice Tuesday.—