It would be easy for the Minnesota Wild to get down in the dumps at this time of year. January is cold and gloomy, and the injury bug seems to have gotten its own locker room stall inside the home team’s room at Xcel Energy Center.

But in the face of outrageous fortune, the Wild have chosen to fight.

On Tuesday they lost a lead and lost another key player, but stormed back to beat the St. Louis Blues for the third time this season, fueled by a goal and an assist by Jake Middleton in a 6-4 win.

Trailing by a pair in the second period, Minnesota battled back to tie, then got Matt Boldy’s dramatic game-winner off a cross-ice feed from Mats Zuccarello.

It was the sixth win in the past seven games for Minnesota, but it came with a price, as standout defenseman Brock Faber left the game midway through the first period with an upper body injury and did not return.

Marc-Andre Fleury came on in relief of Filip Gustavsson in the second period and stopped all 16 shots he faced, including a pair of dramatic sweeping glove saves in the third period as St. Louis pushed for the equalizer.

Middleton, who had missed the previous 11 games after suffering a hand injury early in a lopsided loss to Edmonton on Dec. 12, returned to the ice and returned to the score sheet just 92 seconds later, assisting on Bogosian’s blast from the blue line that gave the Wild a lead before many fans had even settled into their seats.

It was Bogosian’s third goal of the season, and his first in exactly two months. He last scored on Nov. 7 in a 5-2 win at San Jose.

Less than a minute later, the Wild doubled their lead on a crazy scramble in the offensive zone. Wild forward Mats Zuccarello made contact with St. Louis goalie Jordan Binnington, and at least one Blues defender chose to throw punches at Zuccarello rather than defend. Binnington got back into position, albeit without his stick, and was square to the play when Merrill’s rising shot caught the upper corner for a 2-0 Wild lead.

But the early deficit seemed to awaken the Blues, who tested Gustavsson again and again later in the first, getting a goal back to only trail by one at the first intermission.

That was not the worst thing that happened to the Wild in the opening period, as Faber left the game midway through the period and did not return.

Playing with five defenders, the Wild surrendered a trio of goals in the opening five minutes of the second period as the Blues forcefully turned the tables. After Robert Thomas put St. Louis ahead 4-2 with 15:27 left in the middle frame, Gustavsson was lifted and replaced by Fleury. Gustavsson finished with 14 saves on 18 shots.

Eriksson Ek got the Wild, and the crowd, back into things near the midway point of the game, snapping a low shot past Binnington to make it a one-goal game again. For Eriksson Ek, it was his fifth point in the past four games after returning from a lengthy absence due to injury.

After Middleton tied the game early in the third, Boldly got his second goal in as many games. St. Louis pulled Binnington with 3:20 left and peppered the Wild net before Marcus Johansson’s empty-net goal sealed the win.

Binnignton finished with 20 saves for the Blues.

The Wild’s two-game homestand concludes on Thursday as they face the Colorado Avalanche for the first time this season.