In Vancouver, the Nashville Predators extended their postseason with a 2-1 win over the Canucks on Tuesday night. 
After a scoreless first 40 minutes the two teams broke out in the third, so to speak, with the Preds’ Alexandre Carrier getting the game winner at 12:46 of the third period.
He took a pass at the right point and drifted left before taking a shot that found it’s way through a screen by Ryan O’Reilly.
“Great pass by Gus going low to high and then I just saw traffic and took the middle and just shot it,” Carrier said. “(Roman) Josi said it was the hardest shot he’s seen of his life, so just happy it went in.”
Vancouver finished 0-for-2 on the power play and failed to generate a shot on either opportunity midway through the second period.
“Our power play was awful,” Canucks forward J.T. Miller said. “We have to look in the mirror as a group. We could have been a factor in the game, and we weren’t. A lot of emotion in the game. They were resilient. It’s hard to close things out.”
Game 6 is set for Nashville on Friday.
The Canucks were scoreless,a and shotless, on two power play chances.
“It’s great for us to go back to Nashville,” Josi said. “We kind of knew before the game they don’t want to come back to Nashville. They wanted to close out tonight, but you know what, there’s so many momentum changes even within the game. It’s up and down, momentum changes and you’ve got to be a desperate team. We’ve got to be desperate next game. We’re still facing elimination.”
Juuse Saros made 19 saves in the win.
The Canucks took a 1-0 lead on a sharp angle shot from the bottom of the left circle by Nikita Zadorov. The puck found day light short side, near the cross bar at 3:11 of the third.
“Obviously, that was not a good goal (to allow),” Saros said. “I was already kind of thinking too much about the pass options there, so obviously got to respect the shooter more there. I feel like it didn’t really affect us. I felt like more we kind of went more after them and it was great to see us get the two goals there.”
Josi tied the game, 1-1, at 7:15 with a power play marker, his initial shot was stopped , but the puck drifted and knocked in, inadvertently, by the Canucks’ goalie.
“It was huge we could get that goal and kind of take the momentum right back,” Nashville’s Filip Forsberg said.
Arturs Silovs made 20 saves in the loss.
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