DETROIT (AP) -- The Nashville Predators started and finished with a one-goal lead.

In a game suspended two months ago when Detroit defenseman Jiri

Fischer collapsed on the bench with cardiac arrest, Scott Hartnell scored in the second period and the Predators held on to beat Detroit 3-2 on Monday night.

Although the teams played a full 60-minute game Monday,

Nashville opened play with a 1-0 advantage on Greg Johnson's goal

from the game at Detroit on Nov. 21 that was stopped with 7:30 left

in the first period.

Fischer, who attends occasional games and practices, is being

treated with medicine, is undergoing regular tests and has not been

cleared to play. The team has not given a timetable for the

25-year-old Czech's return.

"It was the right decision to cancel our other game, especially

being his friend from our national team," said Nashville's Tomas

Vokoun, who made 39 saves. "You put life in front of everything

because he was in immediate danger and he could've lost his life."

The game resumed on a date originally scheduled to be

Nashville's home game against Detroit. The Predators will play that

home game against the Red Wings on March 30.

"Obviously, you remember what happen because this was the

makeup game," Detroit center Jason Williams said. "Everybody

knows Jiri is all right now, and we're glad he's OK. Everybody

tries to put it in the back of their minds, but I'm sure some guys

though about it."

The Predators are 5-0-3 in their last eight games, pulling

within of one point in the Central Division of the Western

Conference-leading Red Wings. Detroit had won four straight.

"It's a confidence-booster for everybody to win at their

rink," Vokoun said. "But the standings are so close, we can't

relax.

Manny Legace stopped just 12 shots for the Red Wings, who pulled

the goalie in the final minute, but still could not get a shot past

Vokoun.

"If you play like that, you'll win 99 percent," Detroit coach

Mike Babcock said. "We had a lot of opportunities to score. They

went on the road and found a way to get a win.

"We've won a lot of games that we shouldn't have won. This was

one we probably should have won, but didn't."

Nashville took a 2-0 lead -- on its first shot -- early in the

first period when Steve Sullivan scored on a breakaway.

"You shouldn't watch tape on guys," Legace said. "He scored

three breakaway goals going top glove. So, I'm watching top glove

and he goes 5-hole. Instead of playing the man, I played the

tape."

Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk scored on a rebound 40 seconds into the

second period, and Mathieu Schneider made it 2-all later in the

second.

Hartnell, standing in front of Legace, redirected Kimmo

Timonen's shot from the top of the left circle at 9:30 of the

second period.

After Sullivan's goal, the next three scores were all on the

power play.

"We knew special teams was going to be important," Timonen

said.Game notes
The Red Wings and Predators -- the top two teams in the

Central Division by a large margin -- played their second of eight

games. They will play Tuesday in Detroit, and two more times before

the Olympic break next month. ... Both teams began the game with

only one loss in regulation in the division.