The Nashville Predators returned home on a three-game losing streak to face the Edmonton Oilers, who’ve had their number in recent years. With Alexandre Carrier and Jeremy Lauzon still out to injury, Kevin Gravel and Roland McKeown got thrown in at the deep end.
Cody Glass got the scoring started for Nashville, with a goal 1:15 in, but the Oilers came back with a vengeance. They applied fairly consistent pressure and racked up the scoring chances as the period continued.
Unfortunately, as a result, the Predators iced the puck with their third defensive pairing (and Connor McDavid) on the ice, which went about as well for them as might be expected: McDavid started a play that let Zach Hyman tie it 1-1.