While Game 1 wasn’t exactly what Nashville hoped, there were a few positives despite the third-period cluster. I thought Ryan O’Reilly looked excellent, and there were a lot of scoring threats from guys like Luke Evangelista, Tommy Novak, Gustav Nyquist, and Filip Forsberg.
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Truthfully, the game was not out of hand until the third period. That’s been Nashville’s doom all season, however. The first two periods were just fine, as Ryan O’Reilly commented: “We did a great job with that. The game was there for us. We had a couple of lapses and I’m sure a lot of guys want some shifts back.