After scoring first in the first period, they faltered in the second, getting outshot 14-4 while the Predators started their rally, converting on a Wild turnover during a 2-on-0 chance against goaltender Filip Gustavsson.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was our own doing,\u201d Buium said of the second-period collapse. \u201cWe weren\u2019t playing to the competitive level we want to play at, disconnected, maybe trying to be a little cute, myself included. There\u2019s plays where could have just moved it up north, but we were trying to hold onto it for a second and find a better play. So, just in that sense kind of got away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s been the Wild\u2019s biggest problem during their 5-6-3 start, how much they stray from their style.<\/p>\n
They play it in pockets, the quick clears, effective passes and tenacious forechecking, but not frequently enough to make themselves a formidable opponent for an entire game. And when these lapses happen, the opposition has pounced.<\/p>\n
During Nashville\u2019s second-period takeover, the likes of Brock Faber and Jonas Brodin were stuck on the ice for 2-minute shifts and Ryan Hartman had a 3-minute stint.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were our own worst enemy,\u201d Hynes said. \u201cYet, the guys dug in. We bent. We got some saves. We didn\u2019t break, and we didn\u2019t take penalties. We didn\u2019t give in. It just was a bad sequence of hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After scoring first in the first period, they faltered in the second, getting outshot 14-4 while the Predators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-273392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}