Matthew Wood had a goal and an assist for his first multipoint game in the NHL, and Jonathan Marchessault also scored for the Predators (5-6-2), who ended a three-game skid. Juuse Saros made 33 saves.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Huberdeau and Joel Farabee scored for the Flames (2-9-2), who have one win in their past 12 games (1-9-2). Dustin Wolf allowed three goals on 11 shots in the first period before being replaced by Devin Cooley, who stopped all 12 shots he faced over the final two periods.<\/p>\n
Bunting gave Nashville a 1-0 lead at 10:29 of the first period on a redirection of a shot from the right circle by Spencer Stastney.<\/p>\n
Wood scored 49 seconds later to extend it to 2-0 on a wrist shot from the right circle off a pass from Bunting. The 20-year-old forward was selected in the first round (No. 15) of the 2023 NHL Draft.
Marchessault pushed it to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 14:17. He took a pass from Bunting on a 3-on-2 rush and beat Wolf on the forehand in front of the net.<\/p>\n
Huberdeau cut it to 3-1 at 4:39 of the third period on a rebound of a shot by Jake Bean.<\/p>\n
Farabee made it 3-2 at 11:57 with a one-timer from the right circle on a feed from Nazem Kadri.<\/p>\n
Filip Forsberg scored an empty-net goal at 19:37 for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n
Predators forward Cole Smith left the game in the first period because of an upper-body injury and did not return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Wood had a goal and an assist for his first multipoint game in the NHL, and Jonathan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}