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Postgame: Wild 3 Rangers 2

by Adam Rotter on October 30th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

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-Petr Sykora opened up the scoring, late in the first and gave the Wild a 1-0 lead.

-Dane Byers (1), who showed up 20 minutes before the game started, scored his first NHL goal, from Wade Redden (4)

-Eric Belanger (3) untied the game by beating P.A. Parenteau and chipping the puck past Henrik Lundqvist

-Antti Miettinen (1) added another for the Wild and put them up 3-1

-Marc Staal (2) cut the lead to 3-2 with a goal from Vinny Prospal (13) and Artem Anisimov (4)

-Henrik Lundqvist stopped 29 of 32 shots

-Niklas Backstrom stopped 18 of 20.

-The Rangers had five shots in the first, eight in the second and seven in the third period

-Enver Lisin and Byers led the team with three shots.

The Rangers next game is Sunday Afternoon at 1PM against Boston