VANCOUVER — The Nashville Predators stored their season alive with a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Recreation 5 of their first-round playoff collection Tuesday.
VANCOUVER — The Nashville Predators stored their season alive with a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Recreation 5 of their first-round playoff collection Tuesday.
Roman Josi and Alexandre Provider scored for the Preds, who narrowed their deficit within the best-of-seven matchup to 3-2.
Star winger Filip Forsberg assisted on each tallies.
After two scoreless durations, defenceman Nikita Zadorov obtained the Canucks on the board early within the third interval.
Rookie goalie Arturs Silovs stopped 20 of twenty-two pictures for Vancouver and Juuse Saros made 19 saves for Nashville.
The collection returns to Nashville for Recreation 6 on Friday evening.
Vancouver poured on the strain early Tuesday, making a flurry of probabilities within the sport’s opening minutes.
As the primary interval wore on, Silovs proved to be a pressure of calm for the Canucks.
Ryan McDonagh tried to beat the 23-year-old Latvian goalie with a drag transfer halfway via the body, however Silovs merely reached up and snatched the puck out of mid-air.
Vancouver’s greatest probability of the primary got here within the interval’s remaining seconds when J.T. Miller bolted out of the penalty field, collected the puck for a breakaway, and despatched a wrist shot simply broad of the Nashville web.
The Preds got here into the second with a burst of offensive pressure, and outshot the house facet 11-4 throughout the interval.
Cole Smith unleashed a one-timer from the center of the faceoff circle 33 seconds into the body, hitting the highest of Silovs’ blocker. The goalie watched the rebound drop to the ice and pounced to cowl it up.
Halfway via the second, Nashville obtained one other prime probability, this time whereas down a person.
With Anthony Beauvillier within the field for hooking, Kiefer Sherwood streaked down the ice on a short-handed breakaway, solely to see his shot clang off the publish.
Vancouver went 0-for-2 on the ability play Tuesday whereas Nashville was 1-for-4.
The Canucks lastly broke the scoring drought 3:11 into the third interval when Zadorov fired a sharp-angle shot below the crossbar from simply above the objective line.
It was the bruising defenceman’s second objective of the playoffs.
The Predators levelled the rating with a power-play objective 7:15 into the third after Dakota Joshua was referred to as for boarding.
Silovs stopped Josi on a breakaway, freezing the puck below his physique, solely to be pushed into the online, with the puck squirting lose and skittering throughout the objective line for the Preds’ captain’s first objective of the post-season.
The tally snapped the Canucks’ streak of 17 profitable penalty kills.
Nashville took the lead 12:46 into the third when Provider, utilizing a display from Ryan O’Reilly, blasted a shot previous Silovs from simply contained in the blue line.
Vancouver pulled Silovs in favour of an additional attacker with two minutes left on the sport clock, however could not rating the equalizer.
INS AND OUTS
Predators defenceman Luke Schenn was a late scratch as a consequence of sickness. Tyson Barrie took his spot within the lineup and performed his first sport since March 28.
UP NEXT
Recreation 6 is ready to go in Nashville on Friday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 30, 2024.
Gemma Karstens-Smith, The Canadian Press
