Tarasenko and Trenin's goals helped Minnesota beat Nashville 6-5

The Minnesota Wild Hockey Club defeated the Nashville Predators 6-5 in an away match of the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season. The meeting took place on Thursday, February 5, at the Bridgestone Arena.

Canadian Jared Spurgeon (65th minute), as well as Russians Yakov Trenin (37th) and Vladimir Tarasenko (56th) scored goals for the winning team. In addition, American striker Matthew Baldy scored a hat-trick during the game (2nd, 4th, 13th minutes).

Sweden's Filip Forsberg (10th), Finland's Erik Haula (19th), Switzerland's Roman Josi (56th), as well as Canadians Steven Stamkos (17th) and Luke Evangelista (21st) scored goals for the losers.

In addition, two Russian forwards, Danila Yurov and Kirill Kaprizov, scored during the game, both of whom scored assists, and the latter assisted the decisive goal.

According to the results of the match, the Minnesota Wild, which earned 78 points in 58 matches, is in second place in the Central Division standings, and its opponents in today's match are in fifth place with 59 points earned in 56 games.

Next time, on February 27, the winning team will face HC Colorado Avalanche, and the Nashville Predators will visit HC Washington Capitals on February 6.

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HC Tampa Bay Lightning defeated HC Buffalo Sabres a day earlier. It was noted that the match, during which Nikita Kucherov, another Russian hockey player, not only scored a goal, but also scored three assists, ended with a score of 4:3.

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