If you had to go to bed, you missed an exciting one.
An early power play for the Preds — a tripping penalty by Fabian Zetterlund — let Gus Nyquist start the game off on the right foot, with a power-play goal, and Tommy Novak added a second for the Preds (at even strength this time) just before the five-minute mark.
Filip Forsberg added another on a weird bounce at 6:53, and three consecutive fights immediately broke out, with each beginning as soon as play resumed after the previous stoppage — first Cole Smith against former teammate Luke Kunin, then Michael McCarron against Barclay Goodrow, and finally Zach L’Heureux against Ty Dellandrea.