Nashville Predators 2, St. Louis Blues 3: Not Really That Close

The Nashville Predators played the first of a pair of back-to-back midday matinees against the suddenly-hot St. Louis Blues today.

The game started with fisticuffs between Cody McLeod and Patrick Maroon, which sparked the Preds all the way to allowing an awful goal when Filip Forsberg (double-shifted on the fourth line while McLeod served the penalty) collided with Rinne, allowing Vince Dunn to pick up the rebound.

Craig Smith proceeded to potentially injure himself in the process of getting called for kneeing against Oskar Sundqvist, which is not something you see every day. The Blues’ power play got to work, spent some time in its own end against Forsberg and Ryan Johansen, and finished the…