The Nashville Predators hosted the Minnesota Wild and new head coach John Hynes, as well as a large and very vocal group of Wild fans in the arena, tonight. The Preds’ win streak came to an end with an inglorious splat.
The Wild got out to an early start, though a Marco Rossi hooking penalty four minutes in slowed them down. Nashville had a couple of vague looks early in the power play, but didn’t really manage to seriously threaten, let alone convert. Instead, as Rossi got out of the box, he helped set up a play that ended with Connor Dewar getting one past Juuse Saros and putting the Wild on the board, 1-0.