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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild have played from behind so often this season they have almost forgotten what it is like to be ahead. After scoring three goals on four shots, and sending New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur to the bench, the Wild spent way more time in their zone than they wanted. But in what has become the story of this season, Minnesota found a way to win and held off the Devils 4-2 on Friday night. Behind the relief goaltending effort of Josh Harding and a pair of goals from Kyle Brodziak, the Wild won their third game in a row and eighth of 10 outings. Minnesota (16-7-3) jumped ahead of idle Pittsburgh atop the NHL standings with 35 points. "We had a great start, something we havent had a lot of lately. The place was rocking," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "I do think that when you score three goals like that -- bang, bang, bang -- it is a little tough to keep your focus and your same mentality." The Wild gave much of the credit for this victory to Harding. Niklas Backstrom (10-5-2) started the game and played the first period for the Wild. But he sustained an undisclosed lower body injury and was unable to continue. Despite coming in cold, Harding stopped all 22 shots he faced and kept the Devils (12-11-1) from tying the game. Yeo said Backstroms injury was "nothing extremely serious," but more will be known Saturday. "I thought (Harding) was great," Yeo said. "They had some real flurries, some real scrambles around our net, and he stood tall." Harding, who might play more on Minnesotas five-game road trip if Backstrom is out, said he was simply doing his job. "Youve got to be ready as a backup goalie when they give you a chance," Harding said. "Backy has put the bar pretty high and Ive got to step in there and do the job." While the Devils outplayed Minnesota for most of the final 50 minutes, New Jersey was undone early for the second consecutive game. Dany Heatley, Brodziak and Casey Wellman scored in a 3:03 span of the first period to turn an early Wild deficit into a 3-1 lead and knock Brodeur out of the game just 8:17 in. After Wellman tipped Matt Cullens shot past Brodeur, first-year Devils coach Pete DeBoer had seen enough and yanked Brodeur for the first time this season. "Its been two games now with a tough start," Brodeur said. "The puck doesnt seem to want to hit me or anything. So its definitely disappointing for me. Im going to get right back at it to try and have a better performance, but it is what it is." Brodeur (5-7) has struggled recently, giving up three goals earlier in the week in a loss to the New York Islanders and allowing six in a loss at Colorado on Wednesday. Brodeur didnt return to the Devils bench after being pulled, but both he and DeBoer said that was because of a lack of space on the visitors bench. DeBoer made the move to give his team a spark. "I looked at the goals, I dont think he could have really done much on them," DeBoer said. "It was the second game in a row that weve started with three goals on five or six shots so I think everybody has to take responsibility, including me, for not coming out of the gate better." The 12 goals are the most given up by Brodeur in a three-game span since he allowed 13 in three games and 20 in six games last December. This marked Brodeurs second-shortest outing of his career, just longer than his eight-minute stint at Carolina on Jan. 1. "You cant say you play well when you allow three goals in eight minutes or so," Brodeur said. "But you look at the quality of the goals I got scored, it was not like I was weak or anything. The puck just doesnt hit me." Hedberg, who made 11 saves, shut down the Wild until late in the third period. With both teams playing a man down, Brodziak gave the Wild a 4-2 lead at 16:24. Brodziak picked up a loose puck at centre ice, drove to the net and beat Hedberg on the glove side. "We werent at our best, but we found a way to win," Brodziak said. "I think weve got to recognize what happened, and the main thing was starting to make softer plays that we havent been making all year." Zach Parise and Ilya Kovalchuk scored for the Devils, who left frustrated. "I thought we deserved better tonight," Parise said. "We played much better than we did in Colorado, but we just hit a tough little stretch there where we gave them all three of them." NOTES: Wild RW Cal Clutterbuck sat out after taking a knee to the thigh Wednesday at Edmonton. ... This was Minnesotas last home game before a five-game trip that begins Sunday at Anaheim. ... Backstrom was credited with his fifth career assist on Heatleys first-period goal. ... New Jersey RW Dainius Zubrus was in the lineup despite being struck by a puck on his right ankle Wednesday. He missed practice on Thursday. ... 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For the second time in his last four starts, Cecil went the distance against one of the American Leagues top teams, limiting the AL West-leading Texas Rangers to four singles in a 3-0 victory Sunday night for his first career shutout. wholesale jerseys . Neil Schwartz confirmed the deal to The Associated Press. Tennessee has declined comment on any deals until the team is able to sign veterans Friday afternoon. cheap nfl jerseys . The New York point guard who in the span of five games has gone from a seldom-used player to NBA phenomenon arrived at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday as his Knicks set to battle the Raptors -- and Linsanity prevailed.MELBOURNE, Australia -- Six world champions on the grid for the opening Grand Prix of the season represents an unprecedented array of talent for Formula One, yet few would count on anything other than another Sebastian Vettel title this season. Kimi Raikkonens return from a year away in rally racing has added one more former champion to F1 ranks this season, joining Vettel, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. He will be driving for Lotus this season -- that is, the team formerly known as Renault, not the team that used to be called Lotus, which is now Caterham. Raikkonens return will add interest, yet F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone is worried that may quickly ebb away if 2012 turns into another Vettel procession. It was not just that Vettel clinched last years title with four races to spare, but the manner in which he did it -- regularly taking pole position, turning it into a good lead in the first few laps then simply maintaining that margin to the checkered flag. "We dont want what happened last year, which was not too good," Ecclestone said. "We perhaps need a change. The only person that would say no to that would be Sebastian, but everybody else would agree with it." In F1, a driver can only be as good as the car he sits in, and Vettels chances of a third straight title hinge largely on how Red Bull and its renowned designer Adrian Newey have managed to adapt the car to the latest slew of new regulations. The biggest change on last year is the banning of the "blown diffuser" -- a device that channeled exhaust fumes onto the aerodynamic undercar diffuser, enhancing downforce in cornering. The diffuser had been the key to F1 design ever since the Brawn GP team got a jump on everyone in 2009 and surprisingly won the title in its debut season. The arcane world of undercar design could again prove to be decisive, but for F1 fans the most noticeable difference in the design of the cars this season will be much more visible: new rules on front nose height means all teams bar McLaren and HRT have a two-tiered front section, staying high from cockpit to front axle, then sloping down sharply in the section to the front wing. McLarens decision to go it alone among the leading teams and retain a straight front section is a bold one that could prove either a masterstroke or an oversight. McLaren has had a much less frantic off-season leading into 2012 than it did the previous year, when it struggled to incorporate an elaborate exhaust system onto the car, and the bullish comments coming out of the team suggest Hamilton and Button will be Vettels strongest rivals in the early part of the season. "The car is feeling good," Button said at the final testing session in Barcelona. "Whether were fastest, second fastest, not fast, I dont know. But it feels weve made a good step. "Im reasonably happy with what we have going to the first race. I dont know where we are, but Im feeling comfortable." Adding to the good vibe at McLaren are the difficulties experienced by its main rivals in preseason testing -- Red Bull had reliability issues with its gearbox and other new parts, while Ferrari was troubled by the cars inconsistency in varying conditions. "So far testing has been quite good for us, not perfect," Vettel said in Barcelona. "Surely we had some bits here and there failing and some bits that we need to sort out but all in all I feel happy." Given Vettels dominance in 2011 its easy to forget that his teammate Mark Webber pushed him all the way in 2010 and, but for a drivinng error on a wet curb in Korea, could well have ended up world champion.dddddddddddd. Webber struggled with the introduction of Pirelli tires last year but now that he is accustomed to the rubber, the Australian driver has declared himself ready for a championship tilt in 2012, and will start the season chasing his first ever win in his home Grand Prix on March 18. "It is going to be a great battle again at the front, and this is what I am excited about, it is what I am training for, it is what I am preparing for and this is why I am looking forward to getting the first part of the championship under way," Webber said. Ferraris woes appear deeper than the issues at Red Bull, with technical chief Pat Fry not disguising his disappointment at the lap times in Barcelona testing. "I am disappointed by our performance level at the moment," Fry said. "I could either be depressed, more disappointed or less disappointed, I dont know. Weve still got a reasonable amount of work to do." Ferrari is not known for its patience with a lack of performance and, Alonso aside, no one will be feeling overly secure at Maranello heading into the new season. Mercedes has been the best of the rest for the past two seasons, and is aiming to take the step from consistent points gatherer to at least regular podium positions. Team principal Ross Brawn has declared his team ready to belatedly give Schumacher some podium positions to add a sheen of success to an otherwise underwhelming comeback by the seven-time world champion. "Last year there was a lot of resource soaked up fixing problems with the car, so we have certainly moved a long way in 12 months," Brawn said. "What is apparent is that there are five or six teams in a much closer grouping perhaps than we have seen for a number of years." Lotus hiring of Raikkonen was a statement of intent from an ambitious team, and while preseason times are notoriously unreliable guides to performance, it appears the team will at least be competitive. The bad news is that Raikkonens arrival seems like a tacit admission that Robert Kubicas attempted F1 comeback from injuries suffered in a 2011 rallying crash will not be possible in 2012, if ever. 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Australian Daniel Ricciardo won a seat at Toro Rosso in a propitious career boost which earmarks him as a potential Red Bull driver of the future. Bruno Senna replaces his veteran Brazilian compatriot Rubens Barrichello at Williams, while HRT -- under new management -- has gone against the young driver trend by hiring Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan, who have a combined age of 76. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '
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