On a night where the Nashville Predators had a chance to put points between themselves and the Chicago Blackhawks, they found a way to lose, 4-1, to the Dallas Stars.
The loss snapped a six-game win streak.
“I think there’s lots of good things that we’ve done,” Nashville head coach John Hynes said. “Obviously the No. 1 and most important thing is I think we understand what we need to do to be able to win games and be a difficult team to play against. I think the lesson out of this game is when we get away from that, we’re not as good of a hockey team.”
Anton Khudobin made 21 saves. to get the win.
“Any win feels good right now,” Dallas’ Jamie Benn said. “We got a lot of good efforts out there from every player that played in that game tonight. We’ll take that two points and enjoy it and then move on.”
Colton Sissons had the lone Nashville strike in the game, his goal tied the game, 1-1.
Esa Lindell scored for Dallas to give them an early 1-0 elad.
“It just happened last second,” Lindell said. “I called for the puck from [Comeau] right away, but he held on to it and then I had a little bit of luck that I got the puck there with me. I had a little time to take a look where to shoot.”
Jason Robertson restored the lead with a goal in the second period off a nifty pass from Roope Hintz.
“[Hintz] is a great player,” Benn said. “What he does for our lineup is huge. He brings it every night, and you saw it again tonight. He just makes things happen out there. I can’t say enough good things about him.”
Benn scored for a 3-1 lead and Miro Heiskanen added an empty-net goal for the final.
“I’ve been saying this all year, that timely goal, that timely save, that’s how close it is,” Stars head coach Rick Bowness said. “We’re in every game other than a couple, and at some point in the game you need that goal to give you a boost and you need that save to give you a boost, and we got both tonight. That’s probably one of the better games we’ve played all year.”
Juuse Saros made 27 saves in the loss.
“It was a tough, physical game tonight,” Hynes said. “I think you credit Dallas. They were the better team for lots of parts of the game and we weren’t at the level that we needed to be at tonight to have success.”
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