This game was decided early, real early, and it wasn't a good outcome for the Red Wings.
Nashville scored four goals in the first 8 minutes 8 seconds — three goals from Little Caesars alumni Rocco Grimaldi during that blitz — leading the Predators to an easy 7-1 victory.
Grimaldi added the final Predators goal, in a memorable, career-high, four-goal evening.
Bobby Ryan (power play) scored the lone Wings' goal with 55 seconds left in the first period.
Ryan's goal ended a goal-scoring drought of exactly 150 minutes for the Wings.
Goaltender Thomas Greiss started but was pulled after Grimaldi scored his second goal, at 7:23 in the first period, after stopping only four of seven shots.