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Nashville 3, Detroit 2 (OT)

NASHVILLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Rookie defenseman Bubba Berenzweig set up two goals before scoring 2:20 into overtime Saturday night as the Nashville Predators rallied for an improbable 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.

Recalled from the minors on Dec. 19, Berenzweig tapped a pass from Vladimir Orszagh over the right pad of goaltender Dominik Hasek for his first NHL game-winner.

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The Predators erased a 2-0 deficit in the final five minutes of regulation, tying it on Orszagh's power-play goal with 65 seconds to play.

Mike Dunham made 26 saves to improve to 5-1-3 in his last nine starts. Trailing by a goal late in the third period, he stopped Brendan Shanahan twice on a shorthanded chance, making a pad save before sliding across the crease and kicking Shanahan's second shot out of the air.

Vitali Yachmenev ended Hasek's shutout bid with 4:10 left in the third period. Yachmenev tried a wraparound, but his backhander from behind the net bounced off traffic in front of the net and slid past the goalie.

Orszagh tied it just over three minutes later, 92 seconds after Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom was penalized for closing his hand on the puck.

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Rookie Pavel Datsyuk and Kirk Maltby scored for the Red Wings, who had a five-game unbeaten streak stopped.

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