In Nashville, on Tuesday night, John Hynes stepped behind the bench for the Predators for the first time and his lost, 6-2, to the Boston Bruins.
It was much of the same for Nashville.
“The message was to come back here tonight ready to play, ready to compete,” Hynes said. “We weren’t able to make any adjustments, and it’s difficult sometimes coaching these games too. I don’t necessarily know the players as well. They don’t really know me as well. But I give the guys a lot of credit, I thought they handled the day very professionally. I thought this was a game, although we don’t like what the result was, I think it gave everybody a good feel of how things are going to be, and it certainly gave the coaching staff a clear vision of what we need to move on and do tomorrow.”
Tuukka Rask made 33 saves in the win.
“We got the lead, we extended the lead and had a lot of penalty kills (2-for-7),” Rask said. “We battled hard in front of our net, and I think everybody contributed.”
Filip Forsberg and Mikael Granlund scored for the Predators.
“I thought we competed,” the Predators’ Matt Duchene said. “Kind of the same story of the season though, the wrong mistakes at the wrong times.”
Danton Heinen, Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle, Chris Wagner, and David Krejci all scored for the Bruins.
“I don’t think we’ve ever considered ourselves a one-line team,” Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “There’s some nights that obviously [the Pastrnak-Bergeron-Brad Marchand line] does a lot of the scoring for us, but we’ve always felt that we’re a group of 20 guys that have to pull their weight every night. If not, we’re not going to win every night. That was a good example of it tonight.”
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Pekka Rinne made 30 saves in the loss.
“It’s tremendously exciting, but there’s a lot of things going,” Hynes said. “You’re on a flight. You’re doing all kinds of press and different things, and you don’t have an opportunity to spend a lot of time with the players. You want to go out, see them play, see what they do, see what they can bring. And I thought it was really valuable. Hopefully get a good night’s sleep tonight, get up early [Wednesday] and come back to the rink energized.”
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