The Nashville Predators took the ice tonight against the Florida Panthers, hoping to get back on the right track before returning home.
It didn’t start well. The Panthers ran away with the puck early, establishing themselves in the Preds’ zone and peppering David Rittich with shots. Amidst the flurry, Mikael Granlund committed a holding penalty, and once the Panthers got set up on the ensuing power play Sam Reinhart was able to score to put his team up 1-0.
When the teams returned to even strength, there was a stretch where neither team was able to establish anything offensively; the Preds were the ones to emerge from that mire successfully, and Filip Forsberg put the team on his back and scored on his line’s third attempt within a few seconds to tie the game 1-1.