ST. LOUIS (AP) It had been a year and two days since Patrik Berglund turned in a multi-goal game for the St. Louis Blues. He delivered Friday night when his team really needed it.Berglund scored twice and the surging Blues overcame a season-ending injury to defenseman Carl Gunnarsson Nate Thompson Jersey , beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 for their fourth consecutive victory.The Blues (41-28-5) moved within a point of idle Colorado for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Both teams have played 74 games.”It feels really good to score goals always, but at this time of year it doesn’t matter who scores, we just need all the points that we can get here to get into the playoffs,” Berglund said.St. Louis played most of the game with just five defensemen after Gunnarsson exited in the first period. He will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.Vladimir Tarasenko and Dmitrij Jaskin also scored for St. Louis. Jake Allen made 19 saves in his eighth straight start as the Blues won for the sixth time in seven games.Sam Gagner scored for Vancouver, which has lost eight of nine. Anders Nilsson stopped 21 shots.The Blues swept the season series and have won their last five games against the Canucks.Tarasenko extended the lead to 3-1 just 14 seconds into the third period, slipping Jaden Schwartz’s pass between Nilsson’s legs. Tarasenko missed the previous two games with an upper-body injury.”Of course, it’s easier to play when it’s 3-1, but you’ve still got like 19 minutes to play and I think we played a really good third period,” Tarasenko said.Jaskin’s sixth goal of the season with 2:29 left sealed it for St. Louis.Berglund gave the Blues a 1-0 lead 40 seconds into the game, beating Nilsson with a backhand over his right shoulder. It was Berglund’s second goal in three games.”Great play (by Alex Pietrangelo),” Berglund said. ”I came in full speed and I figured I’d get it on the net real quick and he wasn’t ready, so it was a good start.”Allen made the early goal stand up as the Blues were outshot 12-4 in the first period. Allen made four saves during a 45-second stretch of sustained pressure midway through the period as St. Louis failed to register a shot on goal for the final 13:09 of the opening frame.Berglund made it 2-0 with a short-handed goal at 4:46 of the second, cashing in on a strong effort by Kyle Brodziak to chip the puck out and spring Berglund on an odd-man rush. It was just the fifth short-handed goal this season for St. Louis and the ninth allowed by Vancouver.”I knew right away that there was going to be two of us,” Brodziak said. ”He (Berglund) was coming pretty close behind me just from the way that play happened at our blue line. I was just hoping I was going to be able to get there. I didn’t have a whole lot of gas left in the tank.”Gagner snapped a 25-game goal drought, firing in a one-timer off a pass from Henrik Sedin with 5:13 left in the second to cut the Canucks’ deficit to 2-1. It was the 150th goal of his career.”We battled hard tonight,” Gagner said. ”We just couldn’t find a way to generate enough the second half of the game and it’s one of those things, you learn from it and move on.”NOTES: Gunnarsson was plus-15 this season. He had five goals and four assists. … Canucks forward Daniel Sedin played in his 1,299th career game, and his assist on Gagner’s goal gave him 50 points for the 11th time. … Blues D Robert Bortuzzo was fined $3,091.40, the maximum allowed under the collective bargaining agreement, for a cross-checking penalty on Bruins forward Jordan Szwarz in the first period Wednesday.UP NEXTCanucks: At the Dallas Stars on Sunday.Blues: At the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday.— WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) Not many people, if any, expected the Winnipeg Jets to have one of the NHL’s best teams this season.Vegas Golden Knights assistant general manager Kelly McCrimmon was one of the few.The former owner, general manager and coach of the Western Hockey League’s Brandon Wheat Kings said he watched Winnipeg play 20 times last season, giving him a peek at what was to come.”It was pretty easy to see that it was going to happen,” McCrimmon said. ”This year, certainly it has.”The Jets earned 114 points during the regular season, trailing only Nashville.Winnipeg advanced in the playoffs for the first time since moving from Atlanta in 2011. The Jets lost only once to Minnesota in the first round, and eliminated the top-seeded Predators on the road in Game 7 of the second round.The Jets clearly looked like the better team in a 4-2 win Saturday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals against Vegas, the darling of the NHL in its expansion season.Suddenly, Winnipeg might have the best chance of winning the Stanley Cup, especially if it wins Game 2 at home on Monday night.The Jets have a pair of fantastic lines up front along with two solid ones and a strong group of defenseman led by Dustin Byfuglien Authentic Oscar Fantenberg Jersey , and 24-year-old Connor Hellebuyck has been one of the best goaltenders this postseason.How has a franchise, which has largely been an afterthought in the league, gone from finishing fifth or worse in its division the previous three seasons to having one of the world’s best hockey teams?”They put on a clinic in drafting and developing,” McCrimmon said. ”Along with that, great patience and leadership from Mark Chipman as an owner.”What they did takes time.”Unlike other NHL teams, which fire general managers and coaches if they don’t quickly have success, the Jets have allowed general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff to build a championship contender since hiring him in 2011 when they left Atlanta. He was just 20 games above .500 in his first five seasons as Winnipeg’s GM, and its only previous postseason appearance in 2015 lasted just four games against Anaheim.Coach Paul Maurice, likewise, was afforded the opportunity to lead the team for fourth-plus season this year. He made the most of it by helping the Jets go 52-20-10 during the regular season.But ultimately, it comes down to having talented, unselfish players, and the Jets have plenty.When Winnipeg had high draft picks, as it often did as a struggling team, it didn’t miss.Patrik Laine, a 20-year-old winger, was drafted second overall two years ago and is one of the league’s best young players. He had 70 points in the regular season and scored his fourth goal of the playoffs in Game 1.Mark Scheifele, selected No. 7 overall in 2011, leads all postseason scorers with 12 goals and has averaged more than a point per game the past two seasons. On the back end, defenseman Jacob Trouba has been exceptional in the playoffs as the franchise hoped he would be eventually after taking him No. 9 overall in 2012.The Jets have also hit on some late-round picks, including Hellebuyck, whom they took No. 130 overall six years ago.”Hit home run after home run in the draft,” captain Blake Wheeler said . ”A lot of our marquee players are guys we drafted and have taken huge steps in the last year or two to be impact players.”Winnipeg didn’t draft its best player, Wheeler, but the franchise acquired him from Boston in a trade while it was in Atlanta in 2011 and has built around him. That same year, the Thrashers took advantage of Chicago’s need to get rid of salaries by dealing for Byfuglien.And like the front office and coaching staff, it seems the players were patient about the process of slowly building a winner when the team moved to Canada.”We weren’t coming here expecting to blow the doors off right away,” Byfuglien said. ”We knew it was going to be a process of building and finding the right group of guys.”But when it looked like the Jets had a shot to contend this season, they were willing to give up a first-round pick to St. Louis just before the trade deadline to add veteran center Paul Stastny to chase the Stanley Cup. And now, they might just be the team to beat.”The story of Winnipeg and the Jets, for far too long, has been about being underdogs and underrated,” Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman said. ”But not anymore.”—Follow Larry Lage at https://twitter.com/larrylage—