Staal, Dumba each score twice, Wild hold off Senators

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Eric Staal and Matt Dumba each scored twice for the Minnesota Wild in a 6-4 win against the Ottawa Senators at Xcel Energy Center on Wednesday.

Staal gave the Wild a 5-4 lead at 14:02 of the third period after the Senators scored three goals in the third period to tie the game.
Jordan Greenway had a goal and an assist and Mikael Granlund had three assists for Minnesota (13-7-2), which avoided a three-game losing streak.
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"They play an interesting style of game. We got lured into it a little bit," Staal said. "They were up the ice every rush and we kind of let them come at us. [We had a] good shift to get momentum back before we went out and scored. That was big to turn it back in our favor. We gutted it out and got the job done. That's all you're after."

Senators defenseman Thomas Chabot scored a shorthanded goal from the point 52 seconds into the third to cut the Wild's lead to 4-2. Defenseman Christian Jaros made it 4-3 at 11:32 and forward Colin White tied it 4-4 at 12:55. It was Jaros' first NHL goal.
Craig Anderson made 28 saves for Ottawa (9-10-3), which allowed four goals or more for the sixth time in its past seven games.
"It just kind of feels like a waste," Senators forward Chris Tierney said. "You work that hard to get back and to give it up a couple minutes later is a sour feeling. You take a lot away; a lot of good hard work we did, but obviously we don't want to put it on ourselves to have to come back every game and score in the third. So yeah, it was a good effort, but in the end we gave them too much of a lead."
Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk allowed four goals on 26 shots and was replaced by Alex Stalock after White tied the game. Stalock made one save in relief.
"I've never made that change in my life, and I don't want to make that change," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. "But I thought we needed a break and we needed something without calling a timeout, so you make the change and the change was long enough that I think it gave our guys a chance to calm down a little bit."
Greenway scored his third goal of the season when he one-timed a pass from Joel Eriksson Ek at 16:10 of the first period for a 1-0 lead. Dumba made it 2-0 with a slap shot on the power play at 19:39.
Staal deflected a pass from Granlund at 6:00 of the second period for a power-play goal to give the Wild a 3-0 lead.
Senators forward Mikkel Boedker found Tierney down low for the tap-in at 12:48 of the second period to make it 3-1. The assist was Boedker's 300th NHL point.
Dumba's 10th goal of the season made it 4-1 at 16:03. He extended his point streak to five games (five goals, two assists).
"I'm not trying to do anything too tricked up or special," Dumba said. "Guys are kind of getting it to me more often and finding my wheelhouse."
Wild forward Eric Fehr scored an empty-net goal at 19:22 of the third period for the final score.

They said it

"We had a major push. We tied the game. What's been hurting us is still hurting us; it's the way we defend and just easy coverage in front of the net. … Again today, we showed that we can score goals, but we also showed that we're far away from having a defensive awareness and everything that we need to do defensively to be able to win games on a regular basis." -- Senators coach Guy Boucher
"I think it's good to get the win. You need the points, and you should never complain when you get two points. But you'd like to be able to think you'd be able to close it out a little bit better than that. That's two games in a row at home that we'll have to work on." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau

Need to know

The Senators began a four-game road trip. They are 2-5-1 on the road this season. … Senators forward Matt Duchene was minus-3 and had a three-game multipoint streak end. … Dumba is the sixth NHL defenseman to score 10 goals through his team's first 22 games since the 1989-90 season. … The Wild were 2-for-4 on the power play. They have scored a power-play goal in five straight games (seven total) and in 10 of their past 13. … With an assist, Wild forward Mikko Koivu extended his point streak to five games. He has eight points (two goals, six assists) over that stretch.

What's next

Senators: At the Dallas Stars on Friday (8 p.m. ET; FS-SW, TSN5, RDS, NHL.TV)
Wild: Host the Winnipeg Jets on Friday (4 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-WI, TSN3, NHL.TV)