Wild Beat Devils 4-2

The Minnesota Wild continued with their winning ways with a 4-2 home win over New Jersey Friday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.  The Wild improve to 16-7-3 and with 35 points continue to lead the Northwest Division by 6 points over both Vancouver and Edmonton.  Kyle Brodziak had 2 goals and both Dany Heatley and Casey Wellman each scored a goal.  Josh Harding replaced an ineffective Niklas Backstrom and had 22 saves after Backstrom allowed 2 first period goals.

The Wild play at Anaheim at 7pm Sunday night, pregame on AM 1240-WJON at 6:35.