The Nashville Predators, three points out of the league lead with two games in hand headed into tonight, opted to rest Roman Josi, Craig Smith, and Scott Hartnell, as well as Yannick Weber. So that happened. Expectations were low headed into the game, despite the Predators’ dramatic success the last time they played the Canucks in Vancouver.
The Canucks got the first power play of the game when Alexei Emelin took a penalty trying to clean up a rebound, and immediately scored on it. For the third time this road trip, the Preds trailed early.