In Nashville, the visiting Arizona Coyotes blew a two-goal lead in the third period and lost to the Predators, 5-4, on Saturday night. 
The Predators’ Tommy Novak and Filip Forsberg scored in the front half of the third period to tie the game, 4-4.
Ryan McDonagh capped the rally when he scored with 96 seconds gone in the extra session.
Juuse Saros made 27 saves in the win.
Nashville improved to 27-23-2, snapping a three-game skid.
“I think we had stretches of the game where I felt really comfortable with where our game was at,” Nashville coach Andrew Brunette said. “The special teams in the second period kind of changed a little bit of the tempo of the game. I don’t know if it slowed it down, but that’s what happens. But I liked where we were at the whole game.”
The Preds took a 1-0 lead in the opening stanza on a marker from Ryan O’Reilly at 12:28.
“You’ve seen it throughout [O’Reilly’s] career,” Forsberg said. “Obviously, a Stanley Cup MVP (in 2019), it doesn’t get more clutch than that. Just watching him play and watching him do all the right things, it doesn’t matter what the score is, if it’s [trailing 4-2] or if it’s 5-0 for us, he plays the exact same way. It’s pretty special to be on a line like that.”
The Coyotes replied with a strike by Travis Dermott at 13:10 for a 1-1 tie.
The Coyotes dropped to 23-23-4 off their fifth straight loss.
Nashville reclaimed the lead when Roman Josi gave hit off the power play at 11:39 of the middle frame.
“We’ve been struggling on the power play, and you see tonight, I think we scored two on the power play, it’s a different game,” Josi said. “It gives you a chance to win every game. I thought we actually moved it pretty well on the first one and had some looks. Just to get that one and get another one was huge. We’ve got to keep that going.”
Arizona tied the game, 2-2, with a marker from Dylan Guenther at 18:33 of the second period.
Arizona’s Juuso Valimaki put the Coyotes up, 3-2 with a goal at 1:45 of the third period.
“I think we just kind of got laid back and were not pressing,” Valimaki said. “We were just kind of watching a little bit too much. We were kind of on our heels rather than on our toes. Obviously, penalties were a big part of today. We’ve got to stay on the ice.”
The Coyotes extended the advantage to 4-2 with a marker form Nick Schmaltz at 4:07.
“It’s tough to find the words,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. “I think they knew what they were doing. I didn’t like the way we played without the puck. I didn’t like our pace defensively, and they took advantage of it.”
Connor Ingram made 32 saves in the loss.
“Pretty disappointing feeling, especially the way we lost and gave that game away,” Arizona’s Juuso Valimaki said. “It was right in our hands, and we just kind of shot ourselves in the foot.”
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