In Nashville, the Predators surrendered the first goal of the game to the visiting Minnesota Wild, midway through the opening stanza on Thursday night. 
Connor Dewar scored at 9:51 for the Wild lead.
From that point on, the Predators scored six unanswered goals in a 6-1 win, for their seventh straight victory.
Juuse Saros continued to make a case for Nashville not trading him away at the deadline, he made 33 saves in the win.
The Predators improved to 34-25-2.
Nashville replied to the Wild goal with two in the first period.
Yakov Trenin tied the game, 101, at 10:40.
Nashville took the lead on a marker form Cole Smith just eight seconds later for a 2-1 count to the Preds.
The Wild dropped to 28-26-6 off their second straight loss.
Nashville’s Filip Forsberg pushed the lead to 3-1 at 17:55 of the middle frame, scoring off a power play.
Leading 3-1 entering the third period, the Predators added three more markers in the frame.
Roman Josi pushed the advantage to 4-1 with 92 seconds gone in the third. .
Ryan O’Reilly ballooned the lad to 5-1 at 8:03 .
Ryan McDonagh finished the scoring for the Predators at 13:57 for the 6-1 final count on the scoreboard. 
Filip Gustavsson made 25 saves in the loss.
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