Before the game, the team announced they have acquired former Predator Vernon Fiddler from the New Jersey Devils for a 2017 fourth round pick.
Both teams come out with their NOS buttons pushed and there is speed to burn on both ends of the ice. Some pretty good saves by both Pekka Rinne and Petr Mrazek and this looks like it’s shaping up to be a defensive battle. Mike Green puts Detroit up 1-0 on a funky play; bodies, sticks, and puck were everywhere.
The Preds come out flat in the second period. They lost the intensity and fight that they displayed in the first.