Fedor Svechkov scored the lone Nashville goal as the Predators fell to the Edmonton Oilers by a 3-1 final on Sunday night at Rogers Place. The result sees the Preds go 1-2-0 against the Oilers as the season series concludes with one more game left on Nashville’s five-game trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Predators certainly had their chances in Edmonton, and they hit the post on at least a couple of occasions – including with an extra attacker late in regulation – but they were only able to solve former Nashville goaltender Connor Ingram once before the final horn sounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had our looks in third, but they got off to a pretty good start, and kind of the theme for us [as of late],\u201d Preds Captain Roman Josi said. \u201c[We had] three power plays in the first, and our penalty [kill] wasn’t going well. You convert on the power play there, it might be a different game, but I think we’re kind of hoping to win a little bit, and we’re down to nothing. Made a bit of a push, but you\u2019re kind of flipping the coin every game, and you’re not going to win consistently like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked our game, even from the start,\u201d Preds Head Coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cWe knew they’d be a desperate team, and I thought we handled ourselves pretty well. Obviously, you give up the PK goal a little bit early, but I thought it was a battle out there; they\u2019re a very good hockey team. Power play didn\u2019t connect, kind of let us down a little bit tonight, and hit the crossbar, post\u2026 So, another one of those games that we’ve been in a million of them, we just didn’t get on the right end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Oilers had a 1-0 lead through 20 minutes of play courtesy of a Leon Draisaitl power-play goal, and Edmonton doubled that advantage with another tally in the second stanza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Svechkov scored his first goal since being recalled from Milwaukee out of the Olympic break to bring the Preds to within one, and Steven Stamkos nearly tied the game when he hit the post with Justus Annunen pulled for an extra attacker. But just moments later, Edmonton iced it with an empty-netter before the night was done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Predators are now down to their final outing of their five-game trip – a meeting with the Jets in Winnipeg on Tuesday – and they\u2019ll look to build off the positives against the Oilers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to play the way we play towards the middle of the game, or the end of most games, and we\u2019ve got to come out like that and play with confidence,\u201d Josi said. \u201cWe\u2019re in a playoff race. We\u2019ve got to go after it, and we\u2019ve got to win some games consistently. We\u2019ve got to go out and try to win the game and not just hope to win the game. Obviously the Jets are right behind us, so it’s another big game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe desperation level we showed in the third period, I think that’s something we have to carry into the game,\u201d Brunette said. \u201cAt different times, we\u2019re kind of getting our feet wet. Obviously, we\u2019ve got a younger team, and it showed a little bit early tonight, so we have to be prepared to kind of attack it right away, not wait for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notes:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joakim Kemell was Nashville\u2019s lone healthy scratch on Sunday night in Edmonton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Predators will conclude their five-game trip away from home on Tuesday night when they face the Jets in Winnipeg before returning home to host Seattle on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fedor Svechkov scored the lone Nashville goal as the Predators fell to the Edmonton Oilers by a 3-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-539406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}