You can't get too high on the highs and too low on the lows. Goals are hard to come by in this league, and we have a good power play. Aaron Gavey won a battle for the puck behind the net and threw it in front. It deflected off a Wild defender and was turned aside by Vokoun, but Hendrickson darted across the slot and flipped the rebound over the goaltender for his first goal since November 18. The Predators managed only two shots in the third period, when the teams combined for eight.
Every team traps, but that team traps.
We knew we could not cheat with them tonight. We beat them by playing solid hockey. We didn't turn the puck over in the middle, I think, once. We frustrated them. Minnesota coach Jacques Lemaire said this was a battle of two teams that employ very similar defensive systems.