Nashville Predators vs Phoenix Coyotes
Playoffs · Sunday, April 29, 2012 · Jobing.com Arena
NBCSN · TSN · RDS
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 5–3 on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at Jobing.com Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Predators 39–33.
Goals came from Antoine Vermette, Andrei Kostitsyn, Martin Hanzal, Radim Vrbata, Patric Hornqvist, Taylor Pyatt, Ryan Suter and Shane Doan.
Mike Smith made 30 saves on 33 shots for the win; Pekka Rinne stopped 34 of 39.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NSH | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 33 |
 PHX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 39 |
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Antoine Vermette (1)Keith Yandle (1), Mikkel Boedker (1)0–108:32 PHX
Andrei Kostitsyn (1)Kevin Klein (1), Nick Spaling (1)1–117:13 NSH
2nd period
Martin Hanzal (1)Radim Vrbata (1), Ray Whitney (1)1–203:47 PHX
Radim Vrbata (1)Keith Yandle (2), Martin Hanzal (1)1–307:05 PHX
Patric Hornqvist (1)Ryan Suter (1), Mike Fisher (1)2–311:20 NSH · 
Taylor Pyatt (1)Shane Doan (1)2–411:50 PHX
3rd period
Ryan Suter (1)Shea Weber (1), Alexander Radulov (1)3–400:53 NSH · 
Shane Doan (1)Derek Morris (1), Antoine Vermette (1)3–503:36 PHX
Team stats
NSHPHX
3339
52%48%
2/20/2
88
2334
207
45
68
Penalties
- 12:57 into the first periodBrandon Yip · roughing2 min
- 9:24 into the second periodRay Whitney · slashing2 min
- 17:07 into the second periodShea Weber · boarding2 min
- 19:50 into the second periodKeith Yandle · slashing2 min
- 19:50 into the second periodMike Fisher · roughing2 min
- 0:22 into the third periodRadim Vrbata · interference2 min
- 19:14 into the third periodDavid Legwand · cross checking2 min
- 19:14 into the third periodBoyd Gordon · high sticking2 min
Season series
Nashville Predators
| 20Ryan SuterD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 6 | 30:20 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 21:12 |
| 13Nick SpalingC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:28 |
| 27Patric HornqvistR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 16:39 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:50 |
| 47Alexander RadulovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 15:17 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 28:40 |
| 8Kevin KleinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 14:52 |
| 10Martin EratR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 21:34 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 15:36 |
| 18Brandon YipR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:18 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:32 |
| 33Colin WilsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:04 |
| 57Gabriel BourqueL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 13:21 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:38 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:14 |
| 59Roman JosiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:00 |
| 75Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:59 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Pekka RinneG | L | 39 | 5 | .872 |
| 39Anders LindbackG | 0 | 0 | – |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 11Martin HanzalC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 17:41 |
| 17Radim VrbataR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 17:14 |
| 19Shane DoanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 17:58 |
| 50Antoine VermetteC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 14:26 |
| 3Keith YandleD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 26:50 |
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:03 |
| 14Taylor PyattL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:33 |
| 89Mikkel BoedkerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:37 |
| 53Derek MorrisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 27:28 |
| 8Gilbert BruleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 07:48 |
| 15Boyd GordonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 22Daymond LangkowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:13 |
| 24Kyle ChipchuraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:50 |
| 43Marc-Antoine PouliotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:37 |
| 6David SchlemkoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:39 |
| 16Rostislav KleslaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:37 |
| 23Oliver Ekman-LarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | 21:23 |
| 33Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jason LaBarberaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Mike SmithG | W | 33 | 3 | .909 |