"It definitely felt good tonight, especially after the way that game went," Little said. "We got a really good start, and they clawed their way back into it. It was a good hockey game, back and forth. It's good to get the two points."
Joel Armia had two goals, and Mathieu Perreault scored for the Jets (29-13-7), who won their third straight game despite blowing three- and one-goal leads. Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves.
Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture, Chris Tierney and Timo Meier scored for the Sharks (26-14-7), who lost for the first time in three games. Dell made 18 saves.
Sharks center Joe Thornton left the game with 40 seconds left in the third period with an apparent right-leg injury. San Jose forward Mikkel Boedker and Winnipeg defenseman Jacob Trouba were battling near the side boards and fell to the ice. Boedker slid into the back of Thornton's right leg, knocking him to the ice.
"We won't know anything probably until tomorrow at some point," Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said.
Thornton had offseason surgery to repair two torn ligaments in his left knee.
Sharks forward Tomas Hertl received a major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct at 8:13 of the first period after he hit Jets defenseman Dmitry Kulikov from behind, sending him face-first into the end boards. Kulikov did not return.
"He's going to get looked at tomorrow," Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said. "He got stitched up pretty good. Said he was feeling all right after the game, but we won't really have a better understanding of where he's at until tomorrow."
Armia beat Dell short side from the right face-off circle at 11:38 of the third period to put Winnipeg ahead 4-3, but Meier scored on the rebound of a Marc-Edouard Vlasic shot to tie it 4-4 at 15:20.
