“There’s too much pride and character in this room to quit, but at the same time, we’re down five. It’s obviously going to take something extremely special to come back,” Forsberg said. “I thought we played well enough, and it’s easy, probably, for them to take their foot off the gas a little bit too. But there’s certainly a couple things we can take from that period with us.”
The Preds will try to do just that as they head back home, but they know they’ve got to stay out of the box, especially with a top Colorado power play coming to town on Tuesday.
“I think that’s kind of the message, just especially coming in with [the Avalanche], with one of the best power plays in the League as well,” Forsberg said. “So, we’ve got to look ourselves in the mirror.”
“Well, we’ve got to refocus,” Brunette said. “Obviously, we’ll address some of the things that we’re doing wrong here, especially the penalty trouble. It’s one of those things where you kind of got to straighten out as it rears its ugly head back here again. We’ve got to regroup and got to help [Juuse Saros] out. I thought “Juice’ was outstanding. We were really not very good in front of him.”
Notes:
On Friday, the Preds placed forward Ozzy Wiesblatt (upper body, 8-10 weeks) and defenseman Justin Barron (upper body, week-to-week) on Injured Reserve. Tyson Jost took Wiesblatt’s spot in the lineup on Saturday. Defenseman Nick Perbix (upper body, day-to-day) was scratched for Nashville.
With their two-game trip complete, the Predators will return home to host Colorado on Tuesday (8:30 p.m. CT) and St. Louis on Thursday (7 p.m. CT) at Bridgestone Arena.