On Wednesday night, the Dallas Stars routed the Nashville Predators, 5-1, to even their series at 2-2.
Roope Hintz struck twice for the Stars.
“I don’t think it’s as easy as it looks,” John Klingberg said. “If they score a couple of goals there, they create momentum, they’re suddenly back in the game. We did a good job today. We closed it down and kept playing our game.”
Alexander Radulov, Andrew Cogliano, and Mats Zuccarello also scored for Dallas.
“There are definitely things we can do better with regard to how we execute on the penalty kill, or staying out of the penalty box,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “But I don’t think it was a lack of our guys being ready to play.”
Roman Josi scored a so-what goal in the third for the Predators.
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Pekka Rinne surrendered four goals on just eight shots; he was given the hook with only 13:45 gone in the game.
“We have home ice back for a best-of-3, so that’s our focus,” Predators forward Nick Bonino said. “Did what we wanted to do coming to Dallas. We would have loved to go up 3-1. Didn’t happen. Everyone on this team’s been in a 2-2 series before. We’ll go home and try to get Game 5.”
Juuse Saros made 20 saves the rest of the way.
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