Minnesota Wild defeat Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-2
Todd Richards' hope Monday in Dallas was to help snap his top line out of a midseason funk.
Mission accomplished Saturday night.
Five days after the Wild coach broke up the Andrew Brunette-Mikko Koivu-Antti Miettinen line after it went a combined minus-13 at Phoenix, the reassembled trio helped lift the slumping Wild to a 4-2 Hockey Day Minnesota win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Wild, which moved four points behind eighth-place Calgary, ended a four-game wi...
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Wild 4, Blue Jackets 2; Skills competition Sunday at 1 p.m.; Sykora waits
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