COLUMBUS, Ohio - Just getting to the . Chris Pontius Jersey .500 mark might seem like a minor accomplishment to many teams. For the injury-ravaged Columbus Blue Jackets, however, it means the world.Kevin Connauton had a goal and an assist and Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves to lead the Blue Jackets past the Minnesota Wild 3-1 on Wednesday night.Its a credit to the guys, coach Todd Richards said after the Blue Jackets improved to 16-16-3 after a horrific 6-15-2 start, when they were without as many as nine top players. Where we were a month and a half ago, that was a big hole. To get back to .500 is a good spot considering where we were. But we cant be satisfied with it.Columbus scored a power-play goal at 5:57 of the third with the score tied at 1. Cycling the puck, Connauton slid a pass to David Savard at the top of the left circle. His hard one-timer beat goalie Darcy Kuemper stick side inside the near post.Ryan Johansen added an empty-netter for his first goal in 12 games.We made our mistakes and Bob made some big saves, said Johansen. It wasnt the prettiest win, but well take it.Brandon Dubinsky had two assists for Columbus, which went 10-1-1 in December. It was the third time in franchise history that the Blue Jackets won at least 10 games in a month.Hockeys a game where when things are going well, (they) sort of (come) in bunches, said Connauton, a waiver pickup from Dallas on Nov. 18 who has been an important part of the clubs turnaround. Were just on one of those hot streaks right now and we just have to keep working on it and the good things will keep happening.Zach Parise scored a power-play goal for the Wild, whove had 11 of their last 14 games decided by one goal.The Wild, near the bottom of the league on the power play, had two chances with a man advantage in the opening period and scored on the second.With James Wisniewski off for holding, Thomas Vanek carried the puck from behind the Columbus goal cage and fed Mikko Koivu in the right circle for a quick pass to the right doorstep for Parises one-timer that beat Bobrovsky inside the near post. It was Parises 14th goal of the season.Bobrovsky had earlier stymied Koivu on a weakside one-timer.Johansen had a prime chance late in the first but Kuemper deflected the point-blank shot with his shoulder.The Blue Jackets evened things on a relatively innocent play with 46 seconds left in the second period.After a scrum in front of the net, the puck ended up at the short boards on the left wing and Kuemper ended up without his stick. Connauton fired a low shot that sliced past two defenders and eluded Kuemper.I dropped my stick on the save before and the puck got shot into the corner, said Kuemper, who had 23 saves. It shot right out to a guy for a one-timer.It was deflating for the Wild.We should have gone into the third period up 1-0, said Parise. Its tough when you give up one in the last minute of a period. It gets them excited and gets the crowd excited.The Wild havent won a second straight game since Nov. 20.We cant get on a roll, said coach Mike Yeo. Its disappointing. That was a game that was there for us. But we didnt dig in deep enough to get it.NOTES: During pregame warmups, Columbus announced it had extended the contract of left wing Nick Foligno through the 2020-21 season for a reported $33 million. ... Foligno was playing in his 500th career NHL game. ... It was the Wilds first road game on New Years Eve in eight years. ... The Blue Jackets placed RW Cam Atkinson on the injured list on Tuesday (shoulder). Hes expected to miss a week or two. ... The Wild reassigned G John Curry to Iowa (AHL) earlier in the day and activated starting G Niklas Backstrom, who had missed the last three games with an illness. ... Minnesota came in having lost 86 man games to injury; Columbus had lost 223.___Follow Rusty Miller on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RustyMillerAP Jesse Gonzalez Jersey . -- Max Domi scored twice and set up two more as the London Knights toppled the visiting Kingston Frontenacs 6-4 on Sunday in Ontario Hockey League action. DaMarcus Beasley Jersey . Ilonen birdied five of his closing seven holes in superb scoring conditions to end the day with a two-shot lead on the Fota Island course. Ilonen had just 26 putts on the occasion of his 300th European Tour event.PARIS - Michel Platini thinks FIFA must hold another vote for the 2022 World Cup if corruption allegations against Qatars winning bid are proven. The UEFA president told sports newspaper LEquipe that he doesnt regret his own vote for Qatar and still thinks the Gulf nation "was the right choice for FIFA and for world football." "But if instances of corruption are proved, there will need to be a new vote and sanctions," Platini said. A FIFA prosecutor plans by next week to wrap up his investigation of the 2010 votes for Qatar and 2018 World Cup host Russia. On a personal note, Platini claimed that "somebody, something" is plotting to discredit his possible candidacy for the FIFA presidency. Media reports this week cast doubts on Platinis links to now disgraced Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam. Londons Daily Telegraph alleged Platini had "a secret meeting" before the 2010 vote with Bin Hammam, suspected of vote-buying and other irregularities and whom FIFA subsequently expelled in 2012. Platini told LEquipe it was simply breakfast with a work colleague. Bin Hammam, like Platini, was a member of the FIFA board. "I read Platini corrupt? in all the newspapers, on news agency wires, on blogs. Honestly, it huurts," Platini said. Tim Ream Jersey. He added: "I saw this colleague 10,000 times in 15 years. Why would I have had a secret meeting with him? I now realize that in the background there is somebody, something, people organizing all this. I can feel it." "For a year now, everything is being done to discredit me, regardless of what I do. It is easy to feed people who spend their time denigrating you on social networks. There are firms that specialize in this. Its not hard, you simply have to pay." Platini stopped short of accusing FIFA and its president Sepp Blatter of involvement. "I have no proof," he said. "I dont know who is behind all this. But I think lots of interests are at stake, for those at FIFA, for those who want to be there" and "without doubt also for those who want us to overturn the attribution of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar." Platini said, however, that none of this will influence his decision on whether to challenge Blatter for the FIFA presidency. 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