National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Nashville 4, Minnesota 1
Friday, December 31, 2010 6:00 PM
When: 6:00 PM ET, Friday, December 31, 2010
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Chris Rooney, Justin St. Pierre
Linesmen: Darren Gibbs, Jay Sharrers
Attendance: 18285
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Nashville 1124
Minnesota 0011
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
4:23 - Predators Cody Franson (EV) Assists: Shane O'Brien , David Legwand
Penalties
5:32 - Predators Colin Wilson (2) Delay of game
 15:25 - Wild Brad Staubitz (2) Hooking
2nd Period
Scoring
10:28 - Predators Patric Hornqvist (EV) Assists: Shea Weber , J.P. Dumont
Penalties
4:21 - Predators Marcel Goc (2) Tripping
 15:10 - Predators Nick Spaling (2) Delay of game
3rd Period
Scoring
18:06 - Wild Chuck Kobasew (EV) Assists: Martin Havlat , Matt Cullen
18:53 - Predators Joel Ward (EV) (EN) Unassisted
19:53 - Predators Sergei Kostitsyn (EV) (EN) Assists: David Legwand , Shea Weber
Penalties
4:53 - Predators Marek Svatos (2) Hooking
Nashville Predators
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Pekka Rinne G 0 0 0 0 0 59:48
Anders Lindback G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Cody Franson D 1 0 1 +1 0 4 13:09
Shea Weber D 0 2 2 +2 0 2 24:26
Kevin Klein D 0 0 0 E 0 1 21:50
Marcel Goc C 0 0 0 E 2 0 16:08
David Legwand C 0 2 2 +2 0 1 15:50
Nick Spaling LW 0 0 0 +2 2 0 18:02
Cal O'Reilly C 0 0 0 +1 0 2 10:12
Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 25:11
Jerred Smithson C 0 0 0 +2 0 1 18:28
Patric Hornqvist RW 1 0 1 +1 0 4 10:35
Joel Ward RW 1 0 1 +2 0 2 17:40
Colin Wilson C 0 0 0 E 2 2 12:57
Marek Svatos RW 0 0 0 E 2 3 9:59
Francis Bouillon D 0 0 0 E 0 1 17:55
Shane O'Brien D 0 1 1 +1 0 1 17:29
Linus Klasen LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14:02
J.P. Dumont RW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 10:37
Sergei Kostitsyn LW 1 0 1 E 0 5 17:42
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 58:48
Jose Theodore G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Greg Zanon D 0 0 0 E 0 0 18:52
Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 E 0 1 17:12
Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 16:44
Brent Burns D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 24:46
Mikko Koivu C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 21:41
John Madden C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 10:37
Chuck Kobasew RW 1 0 1 E 0 1 15:18
Andrew Brunette LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 20:13
Brad Staubitz RW 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3:27
Patrick O'Sullivan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14:31
Antti Miettinen RW 0 0 0 -1 0 6 20:46
Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 17:26
Eric Nystrom LW 0 0 0 -2 0 0 10:29
Martin Havlat RW 0 1 1 E 0 7 20:43
Cam Barker D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 19:17
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 12:54
Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 E 0 0 18:22
Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 0 0 0 E 0 0 15:54
Goaltending
Nashville
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Pekka Rinne W (33-22-9) 23 22 1 .957 0 59:48
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom L (22-23-5) 30 28 2 .933 0 58:48