Nashville rally past Caps

In Nashville on Thursday, the visiting Washington Capitals held leads of 4-2 and 5-4, but surrendered those leads in a 6-5 loss to the Predators.

Nick Bonino and Mattias Ekholm scored 28 seconds apart in the third period to erase the final deficit and give the Preds a 3-1-0 record on the new campaign.

“It feels like we can turn the corner any minute really,” Ekholm said. “We can go really slow for two minutes and then it just happens to be two good shifts and then we score two goals. The personnel that we have up there and the lines that are starting to really click now is going to be huge offensive threats for us and is going to win games for us as they did tonight.”

Ryan Johansen had two strikes in the win.

“We were just resilient and found a way to win the hockey game,” Johansen said. “Good team. Good players. We made some plays, and our character in our room came out. We just kept chipping away and kept playing our game and found a way to create some chances and put it in the net.”

The Caps have now lost three straight )0-1-2) after winning their fist two games of the season.

Alex Ovechkin scored twice for the Caps.

“We’re too good to make [those] mistakes,” Ovechkin said. “We talked about it before the third period. We have to manage the puck right. You can see we make the turnover, make the mistakes, and it cost us again. Two points.”

Pekka Rinne made 21 saves in the win.

Tom Wilson, Lars Eller and T.J. Oshie also scored for the Caps.

Matt Duchene and Filip Forsberg each had a goal and assist in the win.

“I think it says a lot,” Forsberg said. “I think we’ve been playing really well in the third period in all the games, really. I guess [against the Detroit Red Wings] was a good period too in the third, we just gave up a couple odd-man rushes that they scored on. The third period is key, and it’s been working really well so far.”

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Braden Holtby made 32 saves in the loss.

“It’s happening a couple of different ways where momentum is being turned in the opposition’s favor,” Caps head coach Todd Reirden said. “It’s really, from us, the play with the puck when you have the lead is not giving ourselves a chance to have success, and in turn we’re giving up way too many chances.”