Game

Predators at Wild

Predators 3, Wild 2 in overtime · first star Steven Stamkos (1 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Nashville Predators 3 at Minnesota Wild 2

Predators NSH

3 FINAL/OT 2

Wild MIN

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul · TV ESPN+ · HULU

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Predators	2	0	0	1	3	29
Wild	1	1	0	0	2	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Predators attack left, Wild attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NSH 29, MIN 32.

NSH in red MIN in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Predators 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 13 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Wild 32 shots on goal (2 goals, 7 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT
1st	8	2	17	12	1	18
2nd	12	0	22	11	1	17
3rd	7	0	13	9	0	16
OT	2	1	2	0	0	0
Total	29	3	54	32	2	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NSH SOG	NSH G	MIN SOG	MIN G
Even strength	16	1	30	2
Power play	11	2	2	0
Short-handed	2	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Predators took 51.4% of the shot attempts, and 43.4% of the 76 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Wild and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Predators hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Predators at Wild
Period	MIN CF%	MIN FF%
1st	51.4	53.9
2nd	43.6	41.9
3rd	55.2	54.5
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	48.6	48.1

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

07:00 Brock Faber (7) Quinn Hughes (24), Nico Sturm (4) · slap 0–1
14:28 Ryan O'Reilly (11) PP Luke Evangelista (20), Steven Stamkos (7) · backhand 1–1
17:07 Roman Josi (3) PP Ryan O'Reilly (21), Filip Forsberg (13) · wrist 2–1

2nd period

00:52 Joel Eriksson Ek (9) Marcus Johansson (17), Kirill Kaprizov (21) · wrist 2–2

Overtime

00:53 Steven Stamkos (15) Erik Haula (14), Nick Blankenburg (11) · tip-in 3–2

Three stars

Steven Stamkos NSH · C #91 · 1 G, 1 A
Joel Eriksson Ek MIN · C #14 · 1 G, 0 A
Ryan O'Reilly NSH · C #90 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	08:30	NSH	Ryan O'Reilly	high sticking	2	Quinn Hughes
1st	13:42	MIN	Joel Eriksson Ek	tripping	2	Luke Evangelista
1st	16:07	MIN	Vladimir Tarasenko	tripping	2	Reid Schaefer
2nd	01:14	MIN	Kirill Kaprizov	holding	2	Cole Smith
2nd	03:48	NSH	Nick Blankenburg	tripping	2	Kirill Kaprizov
2nd	16:40	MIN	Mats Zuccarello	slashing	2	Michael McCarron
2nd	16:40	NSH	Michael McCarron	slashing	2	Mats Zuccarello
2nd	18:16	MIN	Jared Spurgeon	high sticking	2	Fedor Svechkov
3rd	02:15	NSH	Tyson Jost	tripping	2	Ryan Hartman

Boxscore

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	1	1	2	-2	2	0	0	2	50.0	22:45
Steven Stamkos #91	C	1	1	2	-1	4	3	0	0	77.8	18:24
Roman Josi #59	D	1	0	1	-1	4	0	3	0	0.0	24:42
Erik Haula #56	L	0	1	1	+1	1	1	2	0	72.7	15:12
Filip Forsberg #9	L	0	1	1	-2	3	4	0	0	0.0	20:20
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	17:36
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	1	1	+1	1	3	1	2	0.0	18:52
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	33.3	09:56
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	61.5	15:19
Tyson Jost #17	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	09:36
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:33
Reid Schaefer #49	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:45
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	14:59
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	11:03
Adam Wilsby #83	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:17
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	0	0.0	18:05
Nick Perbix #48	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:34
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	19:45

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	W	32	30	2	.938	28/30	2/2	60:49

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	1	0	1	+1	4	2	0	2	25.0	17:26
Brock Faber #7	D	1	0	1	+2	2	0	2	0	0.0	25:12
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	42.9	10:39
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	1	1	+1	8	1	0	2	0.0	25:38
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	13:52
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	29:11
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	100.0	10:19
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	0.0	08:59
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	+1	1	7	1	0	0.0	09:32
Matt Boldy #12	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:55
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	80.0	11:54
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0.0	18:56
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	38.9	19:18
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0.0	12:53
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:55
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	2	0.0	16:56
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	19:30
Zach Bogosian #24	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	12:17

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	O	29	26	3	.897	15/16	9/11	60:24

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.