Nashville Predators vs Minnesota Wild
Regular season · Wednesday, October 31, 2001 · Xcel Energy Center
Game summary
The Nashville Predators beat the Minnesota Wild 6–4 on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at Xcel Energy Center. The Predators outshot the Wild 23–17.
Kimmo Timonen scored twice. Greg Classen, Martin Erat, Roman Simicek, Wes Walz, Cliff Ronning, Jim Dowd, Marian Gaborik and Scott Walker also scored.
Mike Dunham made 13 saves on 17 shots for the win; Manny Fernandez stopped 17 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Greg Classen (1)Cliff Ronning (7), Andy Delmore (2)1–006:31 NSH
Martin Erat (2)Unassisted2–008:49 NSH
Roman Simicek (1)Darby Hendrickson (5)2–119:08 MIN
2nd period
Wes Walz (1)Filip Kuba (7), Stacy Roest (3)2–205:39 MIN
Cliff Ronning (2)Greg Johnson (3)3–207:07 NSH
Kimmo Timonen (3)Vitali Yachmenev (3), Scott Walker (4)4–210:21 NSH
Jim Dowd (4)Unassisted4–311:21 MIN
3rd period
- Kimmo Timonen (4)David Legwand (5), Vitali Yachmenev (4)5–305:27 NSH
Marian Gaborik (5)Wes Walz (1), Sebastien Bordeleau (4)5–416:02 MIN
Scott Walker (3)Vitali Yachmenev (5)6–416:27 NSH
Team stats
NSHMIN
2317
39%61%
0/40/1
28
1022
1514
1722
45
Penalties
- 12:36 into the first period
Roman Simicek · roughing2 min - 2:04 into the second periodWes Walz · high sticking2 min
- 14:01 into the second periodRoman Simicek · tripping2 min
- 19:10 into the second periodSylvain Blouin · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 9:59 into the third period
Greg Johnson · interference2 min
Season series
Nashville Predators
| 43Vitali YachmenevR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 17:25 |
| 7Cliff RonningC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 15:26 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 19:03 |
| 44Kimmo TimonenD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +5 | 3 | 24:27 |
| 9Greg ClassenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 06:10 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:52 |
| 19Martin EratR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 16:07 |
| 22Greg JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:01 |
| 5Andy DelmoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24:09 |
| 8Stu GrimsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:21 |
| 10Patric KjellbergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 20:07 |
| 21Tom FitzgeraldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 10:28 |
| 25Denis ArkhipovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:26 |
| 33Vladimir OrszaghL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:47 |
| 3Karlis SkrastinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 23:37 |
| 14Rich BrennanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:22 |
| 23Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | 19:13 |
| 26Andy BerenzweigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:36 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | W | 17 | 4 | .765 |
| 29Tomas VokounG | 0 | 0 | – |
Minnesota Wild
| 37Wes WalzC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 17:06 |
| 10Marian GaborikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:09 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:20 |
| 22Stacy RoestC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:02 |
| 31Roman SimicekC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:20 |
| 34Jim DowdC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 15:43 |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 10:05 |
| 17Filip KubaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 30:16 |
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 14:05 |
| 24Antti LaaksonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:35 |
| 25Sergei KrivokrasovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:25 |
| 33Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 15:56 |
| 36Sylvain BlouinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:12 |
| 3Ladislav BenysekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:36 |
| 4Brad BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:33 |
| 32Jason MarshallD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:31 |
| 39Travis RocheD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:46 |
| 55Nick SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Dwayne RolosonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Manny FernandezG | L | 23 | 6 | .739 |