Oilers double up Nashville

In Edmonton, Mike Smith made 30 saves as the Oilers doubled up the visiting Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

“I thought I played it pretty well; he got lucky,” Smith said. “I mean, I saw him pick the puck up and it hit my glove, then my body. I need to eat a couple more hamburgers, I guess, so I get a little more fat there.

“It’s fun to watch when it’s not you in net, but when it ends up being you, you feel like more of an idiot. But while we’re all talking about that goal, in the end, it doesn’t matter. We came out on top.”

Leon Draisaitl had two strikes for the Oilers.

“I thought it was a solid win for us,” Draisaitl said. “Just like any other team in this league, they have a lot of skill, so they’re going to have their [good] shifts as well. We defended well and we didn’t really give them too much.”

Filip Forsberg and Colin Blackwell scored for the Preds who held a 2-1 lead in the early stages of the game.

“It was a pretty even game, we capitalized on a couple chances,” Oilers coach Dave Tippett said. “We had some good chances in the third to push it along. We had a good practice [Monday], but you could tell the guys were chugging a little bit, that first practice home after a long road trip. But I thought we went out and played with energy tonight and we got the two points.”

Josh Archibald and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for Edmonton.

“Connor makes the game easy for guys, I mean that pass he gave me I just had to find the back of the net,” Archibald said. “I’m used to playing with [Riley] Sheahan where we’re a grind line [that] works pucks down low, where Connor likes to carry the pucks in. When you score with Connor, it’s one of those things you can check off the list.”

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Pekka Rinne made 28 saves in the loss.

“We knew coming into the game special teams were going to be pretty important,” Predators coach John Hynes said. “That’s something we have to continue to work on here in our short time together. They got one [power-play goal] and then they got one with the empty net, and that was a key that we have to do a better job in. We showed some good signs and some good things, but we had some inconsistencies in our play.”