Associated Press
The Nashville Predators controlled nearly every aspect of their series opener with the Phoenix Coyotes Friday night.
Everything except the face-offs.
In the end, it cost them the game.
It was a decisive win by Martin Hanzal on just the third offensive zone draw for Phoenix in overtime that allowed the Coyotes to steal Game 1 with 4-3 victory.
Hanzal drove forward on the drop and pushed the puck over to the hard-charging Ray Whitney. The winger they call Wizard then chipped an awkward backhand behind Pekka Rinne at 14:04 of overtime to send the near-capacity crowd at Jobing.com Arena into a frenzy after nearly 40 minutes of fretful hockey.
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