The Nashville Predators decisively defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 7 to 4, on December 15, 2009.

Final

Lightning

11-13-9

4

Predators

20-11-3

7

Team

TBL

NSH

1

2

1

2

0

5

3

2

1

Total

4

7

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

TBL

NSH

Jerred Smithson (EV) assisted by David Legwand and Joel Ward

0

1

Steven Stamkos (EV) assisted by Ryan Malone and Mattias Ohlund

1

Vincent Lecavalier (PP) assisted by Kurtis Foster and Martin St. Louis

2

1

2nd period

TBL

NSH

David Legwand (EV) assisted by Joel Ward

2

Ryan Jones (EV) assisted by Nick Spaling and Shea Weber

2

3

Patric Hornqvist (EV) assisted by Marcel Goc

2

4

J-P Dumont (EV) assisted by Patric Hornqvist

2

5

Dan Hamhuis (EV) assisted by Ryan Suter and Marcel Goc

2

6

3rd period

TBL

NSH

Kurtis Foster (PP) assisted by Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis

3

6

Vincent Lecavalier (EV) assisted by Andrej Meszaros

4

6

Martin Erat (EV) assisted by Steve Sullivan and Jason Arnott

4

7

Lightning

Predators

Goals

4

7

Shots

34

27

Penalty Minutes

21

23

Power-Play Goals

2

0

Power-Play Opportunities

4

2

Faceoff Wins

35

26

Hits

21

17

Giveaways

8

18

Takeaways

6

13

Lightning

Predators

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Antero Niittymaki	1	14	4	10	.714	32:22
Mike Smith (L)	0	13	3	10	.769	27:38

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Steve Downie	0	0	0	5	1	9:54	2	0	1	0
Kurtis Foster	1	1	-1	0	2	14:16	0	0	0	0
David Hale	0	0	-1	0	2	10:20	1	1	0	0
Victor Hedman	0	0	-2	2	0	13:23	0	1	0	2
Blair Jones	0	0	-3	0	2	14:59	1	1	0	2
Zenon Konopka	0	0	-1	0	0	12:33	1	0	0	0
Lukas Krajicek	0	0	-2	0	0	16:08	2	1	0	0
Vincent Lecavalier	2	1	0	0	7	20:59	1	1	0	1
Ryan Malone	0	1	-1	5	2	19:44	2	0	0	0
Andrej Meszaros	0	1	-1	0	2	21:42	1	2	1	1
Mattias Ohlund	0	1	-2	0	2	23:48	3	2	0	0
Matt Smaby	0	0	-1	0	2	12:29	2	1	2	0
Martin St. Louis	0	2	-1	0	3	22:11	0	0	1	0
Steven Stamkos	1	0	-1	2	4	23:41	0	1	1	0
Paul Szczechura	0	0	0	0	2	15:59	1	0	0	0
Stephane Veilleux	0	0	-3	5	1	12:33	2	0	1	0
Matt Walker	0	0	-2	2	0	16:54	0	4	0	0
James Wright	0	0	-3	0	2	14:25	2	1	1	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Pekka Rinne (W)	1	34	4	30	.882	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Jason Arnott	0	1	+2	2	3	19:20	0	0	1	0
Wade Belak	0	0	+1	0	0	6:56	4	0	0	0
Francis Bouillon	0	0	+2	0	0	21:38	2	1	2	0
J-P Dumont	1	0	+2	0	2	14:14	0	1	2	0
Martin Erat	1	0	+1	0	2	17:56	0	0	2	1
Marcel Goc	0	2	+2	0	3	13:42	0	0	0	0
Dan Hamhuis	1	0	+3	0	2	18:58	0	2	2	0
Patric Hornqvist	1	1	+1	0	3	11:22	1	0	0	2
Ryan Jones	1	0	+1	0	2	9:15	2	1	0	1
Kevin Klein	0	0	+2	5	0	16:08	1	1	1	0
David Legwand	1	1	+1	0	4	22:23	0	1	3	1
Jerred Smithson	1	0	+1	9	2	16:48	1	0	2	2
Nick Spaling	0	1	+1	0	1	6:05	3	0	0	1
Steve Sullivan	0	1	+1	0	0	18:34	1	0	0	1
Alexander Sulzer	0	0	+2	0	0	17:24	1	0	1	1
Ryan Suter	0	1	+1	2	0	23:07	0	1	2	1
Joel Ward	0	2	+1	0	3	20:24	0	1	0	2
Shea Weber	0	1	0	5	0	20:21	1	1	0	0