Carolina Hurricanes vs Nashville Predators
Regular season · Thursday, January 7, 2010 · Sommet Center
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Game summary
The Nashville Predators beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4–2 on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at Sommet Center. The Predators outshot the Hurricanes 34–27.
Patric Hornqvist scored twice. Rod Brind'Amour, J-P Dumont, Steve Sullivan and Tom Kostopoulos also scored.
Pekka Rinne made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Cam Ward stopped 30 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Rod Brind'Amour (1)Jerome Samson (1), Stephane Yelle (1)1–002:52 CAR
J-P Dumont (1)Alexander Sulzer (1), Francis Bouillon (1)1–113:45 NSH · 
Patric Hornqvist (1)Shea Weber (1), Steve Sullivan (1)1–219:36 NSH ·
2nd period
Steve Sullivan (1)Patric Hornqvist (1)1–318:50 NSH
3rd period
- Patric Hornqvist (2)J-P Dumont (1), Shea Weber (2)1–411:16 NSH ·
Tom Kostopoulos (1)Matt Cullen (1)2–412:03 CAR ·
Team stats
CARNSH
2734
54%46%
0/42/7
2910
1523
1911
1115
87
Penalties
- 5:17 into the first period
Patric Hornqvist · roughing2 min - 9:47 into the first period
Jerome Samson · hooking2 min - 9:58 into the first periodPatric Hornqvist · high sticking double minor4 min
- 10:20 into the first periodRyan Suter · cross checking2 min
- 11:40 into the first periodMatt Cullen · tripping2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodMatt Cullen · hooking2 min
- 3:23 into the second periodRod Brind'Amour · tripping2 min
- 8:52 into the second periodRod Brind'Amour · tripping2 min
- 5:45 into the third periodTuomo Ruutu · high sticking2 min
- 7:10 into the third periodSteve Sullivan · elbowing2 min
- 10:03 into the third periodJoni Pitkanen · holding2 min
- 11:03 into the third periodAndrew Alberts · checking from behind5 min
- 11:03 into the third periodAndrew Alberts · misconduct10 min
Carolina Hurricanes
| 8Matt CullenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:58 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:04 |
| 18Stephane YelleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 10:23 |
| 29Tom KostopoulosR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:39 |
| 67Jerome SamsonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 07:10 |
| 11Zach BoychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:57 |
| 15Tuomo RuutuR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:09 |
| 16Brandon SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:15 |
| 19Jiri TlustyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:46 |
| 36Jussi JokinenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:06 |
| 39Patrick DwyerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:15 |
| 4Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 19:30 |
| 6Tim GleasonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:45 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:42 |
| 25Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:30 |
| 27Brett CarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:53 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:57 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | L | 34 | 4 | .882 |
| 34Manny LegaceG | 0 | 0 | – |
Nashville Predators
| 27Patric HornqvistR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 7 | 20:35 |
| 26Steve SullivanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 16:51 |
| 71J-P DumontR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 16:13 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | 22:42 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:02 |
| 52Alexander SulzerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:33 |
| 3Wade BelakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 03:31 |
| 9Marcel GocC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:58 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:08 |
| 12Andreas ThuressonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:11 |
| 13Nick SpalingC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:37 |
| 18Mike SantorelliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:12 |
| 19Jason ArnottC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 20:41 |
| 24Ben GuiteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:48 |
| 28Ryan JonesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:06 |
| 2Dan HamhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:50 |
| 8Kevin KleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:23 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 22:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Pekka RinneG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 39Dan EllisG | 0 | 0 | – |