The Nashville Predators were doing so well on home ice and the Vancouver Canucks came to town and spoiled the run Thursday night with a 5-3 victory.
Daniel Sedin was the talk of the game as he picked his 1,000th career NHL point with a 
goal and three points on the night.
“I said before, it would be great for it to be a goal and for it to be in a huge win for us too, and both happened today,” Sedin said. “It was a good effort, I thought, for 60 minutes against a very good team over there with a very good goalie (Pekka Rinne). For us to score that many goals against him, it means we had a good game.”
Anders Nilsson made 29 saves to pick up the win for the Canucks who improved to 12-10-4.
For the Preds it was their first loss in seven home matches and they dropped to 15-7-3 on the year.
“We definitely gave them too many odd-man rushes,” Predators defenseman Roman Josi said. “They had like two or three breakaways and a 2-on-1, and that can’t happen. I thought we had a couple of chances early in the third and couldn’t capitalize. And then we just gave them too many chances, too many really good chances.”
Loui Eriksson struck for two goals and Brock Boeser added two of his own in the win.
“We talked about this is a good test for us,” Vancouver head coach Travis Green said. “As a coaching staff, as an organization, I liked that we were playing Nashville tonight. They’re one of the hottest teams in the League right now. We didn’t have a great game [Tuesday] (a 5-2 loss to the New York Islanders) and needed a response, and we got it.”
The Predators had leads of 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 but could not keep the Canucks from responding; Craig Smith, Filip Forsberg and Nick Bonino had the Preds’ goals.
“We had a good first and an OK second, but we knew we needed to dig deep,” Boeser said. “It was at the end of a road trip, bring some energy and put pucks to the net. I think there was some rebounds there. That was our main goal, to get shots and crash the net.”
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Pekka Rinne took the loss on 27 saves.
“We definitely gave them too many odd-man rushes,” the Preds’ Roman Josi said. “They had like two or three breakaways and a 2-on-1, and that can’t happen. I thought we had a couple of chances early in the third and couldn’t capitalize. And then we just gave them too many chances, too many really good chances.”
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