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SAN JOSE Alex Galchenyuk Jersey Womens , Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks had been frequent flyers in recent weeks, playing all but one of their eight previous games on the road. Finally back at home on Monday night, they celebrated with a convincing victory over the New Jersey Devils.Timo Meier scored twice, Joe Pavelski added his 20th goal of the season and the Sharks beat the Devils 5-2 for their fourth win in five games. Radim Simek scored his first NHL goal, Tomas Hertl added a late power-play score and Martin Jones stopped 22 shots for the Sharks.“I feel like we’re playing better, we’re on a good streak now,” center Logan Couture said. “We haven’t had the easiest schedule. We’ve been going across time zones recently.”Andy Greene and Drew Stafford each scored his first goal of the season for the Devils, who are a league-worst 3-11-2 on the road.“It’s tough to win when you keep finding ways to beat yourselves. We just miss consistently in some areas of the game and that hurt us tonight,” said Devils center Travis Zajac. “We keep finding ways to hurt our game. We can’t consistently string together any momentum.”Stafford gave New Jersey a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, but the Sharks responded with goals by Meier and Pavelski in a 2:12 span later in the period. Meier’s 15th goal came on a wrist shot over the right shoulder of Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid, and Pavelski gave the Sharks a 2-1 lead by pouncing on a rebound that Kinkaid failed to handle.Simek, playing in his fifth NHL game, made it 3-1 midway through the second period on a shot from just inside the blue line past a screened Kinkaid.“It was maybe a little bit lucky Carter Rowney Jersey Womens , the goalkeeper maybe he not see anything. But I am happy for it,” said Simek, who joined the Sharks earlier this month. “It is a great feeling, I’m very happy for my first NHL goal and I will enjoy it with my girlfriend.”Greene put a loose puck past Jones less than two minutes later to again pull the Devils within a goal. But Meier’s second goal of the game, on another sailing wrist shot, came with five minutes left in the second period to make it 4-2.Hertl’s goal with 5:37 left in the game was the Sharks’ first power-play score since Dec. 5.“We had a really good start for the first 10 minutes or so,” the Devils’ Greene said. “We came out pretty well. We had really good spurts, and all of sudden things begin to happen and we wilt.”Notes: It was the 10th time that Pavelski has scored at least 20 goals in a season. … The Sharks didn’t get their first shot on goal until 10 ½ minutes into the game, by which time the Devils already had seven shots. By the end of the first period, though, San Jose led 11-9 in shots. … The Sharks have a league-leading 41 goals in the first period this season. … The Devils won the only other game between the teams this season, defeating the Sharks 3-2 in New Jersey on Oct. 14. … Ottawa (3-9-1) is the only team in the league other than the Devils with just three road wins this season. … The Sharks, who entered the game third in the league in penalty killing Luke Schenn Jersey Womens , held the Devils scoreless on both of their power plays.UP NEXTDevils: Host Vegas on Friday.Sharks: Host Dallas on Thursday. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Columbus Blue Jackets are starting to look in front of them to see who they can catch.Only a week ago, Columbus was simply aiming at hanging onto the final Eastern Conference wild-card playoff spot and hoping some teams behind in the standings would help out.A 3-2 win over Detroit on Friday night, their fourth straight, put the Blue Jackets in the first wild-card spot with a one-point lead over New Jersey and just two points behind Philadelphia for third place in the Metropolitan Division.Seth Jones scored twice in the second period and Sergei Bobrovsky returned from an illness to make 22 saves as the Blue Jackets beat the Red Wings to sweep a back-to-back. They have won six of the last eight.”We always talked about how we just want to make sure we’re hitting our stride at the right time,” Columbus captain Nick Foligno said. ”We’ve got a little ways to go, but we feel more and more confident about our game as we get closer to the stuff that really matters. That’s kind of always been our focus.”Jones got his tallies after winning Thursday night’s game against Colorado with a goal 59 seconds into overtime.”The puck’s just going in,” shrugged the 23-year-old defenseman, who has 13 goals and 33 assists. ”You get stretches like that. Sometimes it goes in and sometimes you go 15 to 20 games without a point. That’s just the way hockey is. It’s a good time for me to be producing right now in the situation we’re in.”Columbus coach John Tortorella gives him way more credit than that.”He’s had a hell of a year offensively, but the most important part about Jonsesy’s game is becoming a leader,” Tortorella said. ”He doesn’t say too much during the game, but just the way he carries himself right now, he knows he’s part of that leadership group. All facets of the game Womens Niklas Hjalmarsson Jersey , he just keeps improving.”Darren Helm and Andreas Athanasiou scored, and Jared Coreau, in just his second start of the season, had 33 stops for the reeling Red Wings, losers of six straight.The Blue Jackets started with a short-handed goal near the end of the first period when Alexander Wennberg carried the puck around the back of the net and chipped it out to Calvert, who poked it by Coreau.The lead didn’t last long. Just 21 seconds later, Helm caught Bobrovsky leaning the wrong way and got an easy goal to make it 1-1.Columbus went back up early in the second period when Jones rifled in a shot from the left circle off a sweet cross-ice pass from Artemi Panarin. Jones struck again at 8:15 when he put back Boone Jenner’s rebound.”As the game went along, they started to grind us a little bit and we had trouble getting out of our end too many times,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said.Athanasiou beat Bobrovsky between the pads late in the third period to make it a one-goal game. Helm had a potential tying shot in the final seconds, but Bobrovsky made a nifty save to preserve the win.NOTES: Jones has five goals and five assists in the last eight games. … Panarin has seven points in his last four games. … Bobrovsky missed two games with illness during which backup Joonas Korpisalo picked up a pair of wins. … Healthy scratches for Columbus included D Scott Harrington, D Taylor Chorney, F Markus Hannikainen and F Lukas Sedlak. … Detroit F Frans Nielsen missed his second game with an injury. Other scratches for the Red Wings included F David Booth and D Xavier Ouellet.UP NEXTDetroit: Plays at San Jose on Monday.Columbus: Hosts Montreal on Monday.—Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacy—