![]() Louis is in second place in the Central Division with 79. The Predators have 78 points and are currently the first wild card in the Western Conference on a tiebreaker with Minnesota. First period probably cost us the game, but I liked our pushback." "We had some good looks in the second period. They hunted us in our own zone," Predators coach John Hynes said. Some of it was on us and some of it was on LA. Tomasino put in Nashville's lone goal 3:33 into the second on a rebound for his 10th of the season after Quick stopped Josi's shot. The defenseman, who has 21 assists during that span, is second in the league with 60 assists and eighth in scoring with 78 points. Roman Josi had the first assist to extend his point streak to 11 games. Philip Tomasino scored for Nashville, which had won two straight and four of five. It’s kind of weird, we were plus-one, so it was kind of nice that we were able to get a couple goals tonight and make it a little easier,” said Moore, whose shorthanded goal on an odd-man rush extended Los Angeles' lead to 3-0 in the first. “I was looking at our goal differential before the game. The Kings - second in the Pacific Division with 78 points - scored an even-strength, power-play and shorthanded goal during the first period of a game for only the fourth time in 20 years. Arthur Kaliyev also scored for the Kings, who won for the third time in five games despite missing seven players from their lineup. Trevor Moore had a goal and an assist, and Kopitar added two assists. Kempe added an open-net goal at 13:18 of the third. Kopitar forced Nick Cousins to turn over the puck deep in the zone and found a streaking Kempe, who put a wrist shot from the slot past Rittich at 3:26 to open the scoring. It was the sixth multigoal game this season for Kempe, who leads the Kings with 28 goals. Much more of a physical attitude and, guess what? You score. "He was involved in piles, scrums, net front, faceoff circle. And while you’re doing that, what else can you provide? Some physicality," coach Todd McLellan said. “When you’re chosen because of all your offensive skills as a young player, an 18-year-old, it’s hard to transfer those to the NHL. He then caught Nashville goaltender David Rittich playing out of the net and knocked in the puck after a turnover at 13:46 to put Los Angeles up by five. He took a centering pass from Rasmus Kupari at 5:59 to extend the Kings’ lead to 4-1. There’s a lot of eyes on you, so, just want to produce and help the team as much as I can.”īoth of Byfield's goals came in the third period. “I like to have a lot of confidence in myself, but the pressure just comes with where I was slotted. ![]() Having that feeling that I know I can score now, beat goaltenders in the NHL, is definitely a confidence booster,” he said. He snapped an 11-game goal drought, which he said had been starting to weigh on him. The 19-year-old center became the first Kings teenager with a multigoal game since Oscar Moller in 2008, and the first with a three-point game since Anze Kopitar in 2006.īyfield missed the first half of the season after he broke his left ankle during the preseason, but has four goals and seven points in 25 games. LOS ANGELES - Adrian Kempe and Quinton Byfield both scored twice, and the shorthanded Los Angeles Kings scored three times in the first 11 minutes to defeat the Nashville Predators 6-1 on Tuesday night.īyfield, the second pick in the 2020 NHL draft, had the first two-goal game of his career along with an assist. NHL, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators As a junior, Ryan Ellis was everything there was for a defenseman to win, both from the team and the individual standpoint, and he's brougtht that winning approach to the big show.Kempe, Byfield lead shorthanded Kings over Predators 6-1 Subban are NHL all-stars and legitimate Norris Trophy threats. Today's NHL is all about mobile, puck-moving defenders who can get the play up ice quickly and work a strong transition game and the Predators suit up some of the best in the game at performing this key element of the game. They are fast, skilled and talented and combine the traditional work ethic of the franchise with much more explosiveness on the attack. Standings Nashville Predators Today's Preds Have Plenty Of BiteĮver wonder why the Predators are called the Predators, or why their logo is a saber-toothed tiger? It's because 26 years prior to construction of Nashville's home arena, the fang and a foreleg bone of a saber-toothed tiger were discovered in a cave under the building's location.įor years, it seemed an unlikely logo for a team that preferred to play a sit back and wait style and counter punch in terms of offensive forays, but today's Predators have plenty of bite. ![]()
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