Josi pushes Nashville to 2-1 series lead with late goal in Game 2 Preds score twice in third to get 2-1 win

There was just no time for a rally Tuesday night in Nashville.

The Predators’ Roman Josi scored a power play goal with less than three minutes left in regulation to give the Predators a 2-1 win and 2-01 series lead over the Anaheim Ducks.

“I think we’re a confident team,” Josi said. “We know what we can do in the room. Nobody panicked. We knew we played a good game. We had a lot of chances, a lot of shots. We knew we just had to play the same way and they were going to go in some time. It doesn’t matter what happens, we just try to stay positive and just stay with it.”

Nashville needed a goal from Filip Forsberg early in the third period to tie the game.

“That’s what we pay him for,” Mattias Ekholm said of Forsberg and his goal. “No, but he’s just one of those players. He deserves the spotlight that he’s getting, the attention he’s getting because he’s that good of a player. This is the time where everyone wants to step up and doing something good, and he’s really done it.”

Corey Perry had given the Ducks 1-0 lead at 15:35 of the middle frame.

“Sometimes in games like that, you get frustrated. You’re pressing. Their goaltender was good, and the key is just stick with it and believe you’re going to get one at some point if you keep going, and that’s kind of what we did. We just didn’t give up,”  the Predators’ Mike Fisher said.

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John Gibson made 38 saves in taking the loss.

“We didn’t do a very good job in front of [Gibson] as far as managing the puck and then managing the people that were inside,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “Through the comparison we look at, they worked harder to get inside than we did tonight.”