In Nashville, six different skaters scored for the visiting Vancouver Canucks in a 6-3 thumping of the fading Predators.
Five of the six goals came on the power play.
“We were on tonight,” Canucks forward Bo Horvat said. “We talked about kind of what we had to do and simplify things, and it seemed to work. We were getting pucks and bodies toward the net and getting rewarded for it.”
It was a far better effort than their loss in Dallas to Stars on Tuesday night.
Jacob Markstrom made 45 saves in the win.
Ryan Johansen, Matt Duchene and Calle Jarnkrok scored for the Preds.
“Things aren’t bouncing our way right now, but at the same time, we’re not making it easy on ourselves either,” Duchene said. “Whenever things are tough sledding like right now, you’ve got to do whatever you can to give yourself a chance. You take that many penalties, I don’t know how many we took, six or seven, I don’t know what it was. They got three or four great bounces on the power play and just put pucks to the net.”
Elias Pettersson, Horvat, JT Miller,Tyler Graovac, and Brock Boeser scored for the Canucks.
“We talked about doing the things you can control,” Miller said. “Being physical, skating, doing the easy things, and I thought we did a good job of getting the puck in their end and obviously making them get tired and take penalties. That’s a big part of the game.”
Tanner Pearson added an empty-net goal to close it out.
“The power play worked really well today, but mostly we talked about we can’t play the way that we did (loss to the Dallas Stars],” Pettersson said. “We weren’t battling. We weren’t skating. We weren’t working hard. I think we especially did that for 60 minutes, and that’s what got us six power-play [opportunities] as well.”
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Pekka Rinne made 12 saves through 40 minutes of play. he got the hook in the second intermission.
“Change (roster moves) can always happen,” Johansen said after the loss. “It’s at any point, but we’re in a business of winning and results. We don’t worry about that. I worry about myself and what I need to do to help this team be better. That’s what everyone in this room does. And that’s all you can do is control what you can control.”
Juuse Saros iced for the third period and made five saves.
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