After five endless days off, the Predators returned to our televisions on the road against the Vancouver Canucks. The late-night game had the potential to be worth staying up for or the kind of thing you’d be glad to have missed—as you might remember, the last game against the Canucks didn’t go well. It turned out to be well worth the late hour.
P.K. Subban opened the scoring a minute and a half in with a weird sinking shot that was in the net before anyone knew where it was. The Preds and Canucks would trade power plays, neither team threatening much at all with the man advantage but both getting some shorthanded looks, before a fantastic shorthanded play by Roman Josi, Ryan Johansen, and Viktor Arvidsson increased the Predators’ lead to 2-0.