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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Wild sharpened their game late against the St. Louis Blues and kept up an impressive recent stretch.Matt Dumba, Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund scored, Devan Dubnyk made 22 saves and Minnesota held on to beat the Blues 3-1 on Sunday night for their fourth straight win.I think thats nine out of 10 games that weve gotten points in, Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. I thought that was our best third period of the year. We had a one-goal lead and I thought we didnt give them anything. That is the way we play when were playing really good. Thats a positive thing. I hope theyre starting to believe theyre a good team.Dumba scored for the second straight game in the second period and Niederreiter got his eighth goal about seven minutes later. Granlund added an empty-net goal.Dubnyk is 6-0-2 in his last eight games, posting a 1.69 goals-against average and .941 save percentage since Nov. 23.Thats important to just get that feeling, get that good feeling going, Dubnyk said. When you can approach every game and feel good about what the outcomes going to be and how were going to play, thats how you get on these streaks. These streaks are important when the schedule gets tough at the end of the year.Vladimir Tarasenko scored his 14th goal of the season for St. Louis. Jake Allen stopped 22 shots for the Blues, who had won five of their past seven games.All these games are right there, but were not getting a big enough push back against these teams that really check hard, St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. They checked hard. We really checked them hard, but as the game wore they started to get a little bit control of it.After a scoreless first period in which the Wild managed just six shots on goal, Dumbas wrist shot put Minnesota ahead just 45 seconds into the second. The young defenseman brought the puck up the center of the ice and casually sent the puck on net, beating Allen high to the stick side.Allen had little help as Niederreiter scored for the first time in seven games. Erik Haula and Charlie Coyle were right in front of Allen, along with two defensemen, but Niederreiter cycled freely before flipping the puck in.Tarasenko, who had six goals against the Wild in the playoffs two years ago, scored for the 10th time in the past 18 games. He is tied for fifth in the league with 14 goals.I thought periodically again we played well, Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo said. 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Peter Holland and Brad Staubitz were sent to Toronto on Saturday as the Maple Leafs traded defenceman Jesse Blacker and draft picks to the Anaheim Ducks. ZURICH -- Carli Lloyd will defend her FIFA womens player of the year award against a number of rivals, including three Olympic champions from Germany and five-time winner Marta.Lloyd is the United States only nominee on a 10-player list announced by FIFA on Thursday after the 2015 World Cup winners lost in the Olympic quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro.Germany has forward Dzsenifer Marozsan, who scored in a 2-1 win over Sweden in the gold medal match, as well as midfielders Melanie Behringer and Sara Daebritz on the list. Behringer retired after the Olympics, having played more than 100 times for her country.Each of the trio aims to be the third different German winner in the past four years.Brazil great Marta, who won the award every year from 2006 through 2010, had her 11-year streak of making the final shortlist of three candidates broken last year.European champion clubb Lyon provides four nominees from four different national teams.dddddddddddd.Voting is held by national team captains and coaches, selected media members and an online fan poll. Each section will count for 25 percent of the final tally.FIFA will announce the shortlist on Dec. 2. The rebranded Best FIFA Awards ceremony will be held on Jan. 9 in Zurich.---Candidates:Camille Abily (France, Lyon); Melanie Behringer (Germany, Bayern Munich); Sara Daebritz (Germany, Bayern Munich); Amandine Henry (France, Portland Thorns); Saki Kumagai (Japan, Lyon); Carli Lloyd (United States, Houston Dash); Dzsenifer Marozsan (Germany, Frankfurt/Lyon); Marta (Brazil, Rosengard); Lotta Schelin (Sweden, Lyon/Rosengard); Christine Sinclair (Canada, Portland Thorns). ' ' '