The Minnesota Wild squeaked out a win over the Nashville Predators, 5 to 4, in overtime on December 2, 2009.

Final

Predators

15-10-2

4

Wild

11-12-3

5

Team

NSH

MIN

1

2

3

2

1

0

3

1

OT

0

1

Total

4

5

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

NSH

MIN

Marcel Goc (EV) assisted by Martin Erat and Steve Sullivan

1

0

Antti Miettinen (EV) assisted by Andrew Brunette and Mikko Koivu

1

Cal Clutterbuck (EV) assisted by Kyle Brodziak and Martin Havlat

1

2

Jason Arnott (EV) assisted by J-P Dumont and Steve Sullivan

2

Guillaume Latendresse (EV) assisted by Kyle Brodziak

2

3

2nd period

NSH

MIN

Steve Sullivan (EV) assisted by Kevin Klein and Jason Arnott

3

3rd period

NSH

MIN

Jason Arnott (EV) assisted by J-P Dumont and Steve Sullivan

4

3

Mikko Koivu (PP) assisted by Andrew Brunette and Marek Zidlicky

4

OT

NSH

MIN

Andrew Ebbett (EV) assisted by Guillaume Latendresse and Greg Zanon

4

5

Predators

Wild

Goals

4

5

Shots

35

27

Penalty Minutes

9

Power-Play Goals

0

1

Power-Play Opportunities

2

Faceoff Wins

23

35

Hits

16

23

Giveaways

6

4

Takeaways

4

11

Predators

Wild

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Pekka Rinne (O)	1	27	5	22	.815	61:26

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Jason Arnott	2	1	+2	0	2	20:37	0	1	0	0
Wade Belak	0	0	0	5	0	2:23	0	0	0	0
Francis Bouillon	0	0	0	2	2	18:34	2	0	0	0
J-P Dumont	0	2	+3	0	2	16:28	0	0	2	0
Martin Erat	0	1	-2	2	3	19:46	1	0	1	0
Cody Franson	0	0	+1	0	4	13:05	0	2	1	0
Marcel Goc	1	0	-2	0	1	16:02	0	1	0	2
Dan Hamhuis	0	0	+1	0	0	20:12	2	0	0	0
Patric Hornqvist	0	0	0	0	2	7:26	1	0	0	0
Kevin Klein	0	1	0	0	4	20:57	2	3	0	0
David Legwand	0	0	0	0	1	18:41	1	0	1	0
Mike Santorelli	0	0	0	0	1	4:53	1	0	0	0
Jerred Smithson	0	0	0	0	1	17:05	1	1	0	1
Steve Sullivan	1	3	+3	0	3	20:43	1	1	0	0
Ryan Suter	0	0	-1	0	1	24:58	1	1	0	0
Jordin Tootoo	0	0	-3	0	4	15:37	1	0	0	0
Joel Ward	0	0	0	0	2	21:01	1	0	0	1
Shea Weber	0	0	-1	0	2	25:06	1	1	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Niklas Backstrom (W)	1	35	4	31	.886	61:26

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Eric Belanger	0	0	0	0	2	15:18	1	0	0	0
Derek Boogaard	0	0	0	5	1	7:54	2	0	0	1
Kyle Brodziak	0	2	0	0	1	16:24	0	0	0	1
Andrew Brunette	0	2	+1	0	1	18:01	0	0	1	0
Cal Clutterbuck	1	0	0	0	1	13:22	7	0	0	2
Andrew Ebbett	1	0	-1	0	1	12:07	0	0	0	2
Martin Havlat	0	1	-2	0	1	14:49	0	0	0	2
Shane Hnidy	0	0	+1	0	2	15:39	0	0	0	0
Kim Johnsson	0	0	+3	0	1	21:48	0	1	1	0
Chuck Kobasew	0	0	-2	2	3	12:18	1	0	0	0
Mikko Koivu	1	1	+1	2	4	19:33	0	0	0	2
Guillaume Latendresse	1	1	+1	0	3	17:13	2	0	0	1
Antti Miettinen	1	0	+1	0	3	16:24	0	1	0	0
Owen Nolan	0	0	0	0	0	15:40	0	0	0	0
Nick Schultz	0	0	-1	0	1	22:59	1	0	0	0
Jaime Sifers	0	0	+1	0	1	14:28	5	3	0	0
Greg Zanon	0	1	-2	0	0	23:49	2	4	0	0
Marek Zidlicky	0	1	-2	0	1	23:59	2	0	1	0