{"id":202167,"date":"2026-03-23T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:26:29","slug":"forsberg-scores-twice-predators-edge-blackhawks-in-ot-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202167\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsberg scores twice, Predators edge Blackhawks in OT for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juuse Saros<\/a>, who missed the previous two games with an upper-body injury, returned to the net and made 26 saves for the Predators (33-28-9), who have won four in a row and five of seven (5-1-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, \u2018Juice\u2019 was outstanding, and we got out of here with a W,\u201d Nashville coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cI thought both goalies — I thought Spencer was really good — especially at different stretches of the game where we put some pucks on him and (had) some pretty good looks. And \u2018Juice\u2019 coming back kind of right where he left off, I thought he was playing as good as I\u2019ve been around him since the Olympics. His game\u2019s at another level, and he showed it again tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nashville is two points ahead of the Los Angeles Kings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to move up,\u201d Brunette said. \u201cWe want to keep moving forward. We don\u2019t want to look back. We\u2019ve been a resilient group that has a lot of belief in ourselves, and we\u2019re just going to keep moving forward. We haven\u2019t dwelled on where we were (in the standings) once all year, even when we were kind of at the bottom looking up. We\u2019re going to keep that same attitude here going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connor Bedard<\/a> scored, and Knight made 30 saves for the Blackhawks (26-31-13), who have lost four of five (1-2-2).<\/p>\n

\u201cOvertimes are so much, you get three guys on the ice, you get a little bit of systematic stuff, but to say you have all this, (it) comes down to guys making plays,\u201d Chicago coach Jeff Blashill said. \u201cWe lost the puck. And next thing you know, it\u2019s in our net. I thought (Burakovsky) played great tonight, so a little bit unfortunate. And we didn\u2019t quite react to the breakdown, and it goes in the net. That\u2019s certainly something, if our overtimes have been better, our record would be much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Lardis<\/a> gave the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead at 4:34 of the second period. His wrist shot from the left face-off circle deflected into the net off the stick of Predators defenseman Nicolas Hague<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to show my strengths when I get that opportunity,\u201d Lardis said. \u201cI thought I was skating pretty well tonight; I thought we generated a decent amount of chances. Obviously as the game got tighter, we kind of got less and less chances as the game goes on, but that\u2019s kind of how it goes when there\u2019s tight games. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. I thought we generated chances and didn\u2019t give up a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forsberg tied it 1-1 at 6:31, scoring from the slot after taking a pass on a give-and-go from Jonathan Marchessault<\/a>, who fed it from the right circle.<\/p>\n

Bedard gave Chicago a 2-1 lead at 13:57 when he took a stretch pass from Ryan Greene<\/a>, moved in on\u00a0Saros and scored after going backhand to forehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juuse Saros, who missed the previous two games with an upper-body injury, returned to the net and made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-202167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}