Welcome from Anaheim, where the mostly intact Nashville Predators play the Ducks tonight in a late, late game. The Ducks were missing several players that were traded today, and Nashville would debut new trade acquisition Jeremy Lauzon, on the second pair with Carrier.
Getting started proved to be a challenge for Nashville. Anaheim would get 8 shot attempts to Nashville’s 3 before Mark Borowiecki would be called for slashing. Nashville continued their strong special teams performance with a good kill, but Anaheim just kept piling on. After a fight between Tanner Jeannot and Carrick, Anaheim continued to apply the heat before Derek Grant would break the scoreless period and give Anaheim the lead with just under 10 minutes remaining in the period.