NASHVILLE, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Darby Hendrickson scored his first two goals of the season and set up another Tuesday night as the Minnesota Wild ended a five-game winless streak with a 4-2 victory over the Nashville Predators.
It was the Wild's first win over the Predators after going 0-3-1 against them as an expansion team last season.
Hendrickson got his first goal of the night 3:33 into the second period when he banged a rebound of defenseman Filip Kuba's shot past goaltender Mike Dunham to forge a 1-1 tie.
After former Predator Andrew Brunette gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead with 2:19 left in the period, Hendrickson set up Sergei Krivokrasov's first goal of the season. He fed Sergei Zholtok inside the Nashville blue line and Zholtok passed to Krivokrasov, another former Predator who beat Dunham from the left faceoff circle to make it 3-1.
Nashville had an opportunity to get back in it after Krivokrasov took a major penalty for kneeing with 4:27 to play. Rookie Martin Erat got a power-play goal two minutes later, but Hendrickson scored into an empty net with five seconds remaining to seal the Wild's first win since October 12 against Chicago.
