After the faceoff, the Nashville Predators spent the next seven minutes of the game in the defensive zone before spending a brief controlled moment in front of Devan Dubnyk. Seconds later, the Wild moved the puck back in front of our net where Kyle Turris made a beautiful save behind Rinne, by knocking the puck away from the goal line. The respite was momentary as seconds later, Mikael Granlund took a shot through Mattias Ekholm that slid through Rinne’s five hole.
After some more needlessly exciting moments in front of our net, Miika Salomaki wound up in the Wild’s net, took a shove and on the ensuing faceoff, Austin Watson and Marcus Foligno dropped their gloves, hugged for awhile, threw some “punches”, and ended up on the ice.