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Golden Knights vs. Predators
Predators triumph 3-2
RJ’s 3 stars
3. Knights goalie Logan Thompson — A small tally enactment would person been bully for the rookie making his archetypal NHL commencement with Laurent Brossoit (upper body) listed arsenic time to day. Thompson finished with 23 stops.
2. Predators goalie Juuse Saros — Came up with 41 saves to frustrate the Knights’ offense. Saros seemed to find each puck that was fired done postulation earlier his shutout bid ended successful the 3rd play erstwhile helium turned distant 19 of 21 shots.
1. Predators winger Filip Forsberg — Had his 5th game-winning goal, tied for 2nd successful the league, and added a 2nd with a spectacular determination astir Alex Pietrangelo successful the 3rd period.
Key play
Forsberg’s archetypal goal.
The Predators enactment the Knights connected their heels from the opening faceoff, and the breakthrough came 2:41 into the 2nd play connected a speedy modulation aft Shea Theodore’s walk didn’t link with Keegan Kolesar astatine the acold bluish line.
Mikael Granlund entered the portion and near a driblet walk for Forsberg, who opened his hips and fired from the near faceoff ellipse to bushed Thompson connected the instrumentality side. It was Forsberg’s team-leading 16th goal.
Key stat
8 — The fig of icing infractions committed by the Knights successful the archetypal period. Nashville’s forecheck didn’t let the Knights room, and their lone mode to relieve the unit was to nonstop the puck the magnitude of the ice.
Martinez returns
Injured defenseman Alec Martinez participated successful Tuesday’s greeting skate astatine City National Arena wearing a red, noncontact jersey.
Martinez has been sidelined since Nov. 11 erstwhile helium was kicked successful the look by Minnesota Wild near helping Brandon Duhaime and suffered a terrible facial laceration that required much than 50 stitches, according to manager Pete DeBoer. He besides sustained a caput wounded connected the play and has missed the past 22 games.
DeBoer cautioned that adjacent though Martinez was connected the ice, helium isn’t acceptable to instrumentality to crippled action.
“Nice measurement for immoderate of these guys to beryllium rejoining our radical astatine immoderate benignant of the practices we’ve had oregon the optional skates that we’ve had,” DeBoer said. “It’s a affirmative step, but he’s not backmost yet.”
Missing Glass
The Knights didn’t spot erstwhile first-round prime Cody Glass, who was traded to the Predators during the offseason for guardant Nolan Patrick and is successful the American Hockey League.
Glass has 21 points (five goals, 16 assists) successful 23 appearances for the Milwaukee Admirals, including 3 multipoint games. The 22-year-old halfway past appeared successful the NHL connected Dec. 17 and doesn’t person a constituent successful 4 games with Nashville.
“I’d similar to spot him get a accidental up with Nashville,” said Kolesar, 1 of Glass’ closest friends with the Knights. “But for present it’s conscionable astir him getting his crippled wherever it needs to beryllium and past erstwhile helium gets the accidental to get called up, he’ll marque bully of it.”
Knights’ adjacent 10
Vs. New York Rangers, 7 p.m. Thursday
Vs. Chicago, 7 p.m. Saturday
Vs. Toronto, 7 p.m. Tuesday
Vs. Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Jan. 17
Vs. Montreal, 7 p.m. Jan. 20
At Washington, 4 p.m. Jan. 24
At Carolina, 4 p.m. Jan. 25
At Florida, 4 p.m. Jan. 27
At Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Jan. 29
Vs. Buffalo, 7 p.m. Feb. 1
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