Montreal Canadiens (40-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Nashville Predators (34-29-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens will attempt to keep a three-game win streak intact when they take on the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n
Nashville has a 34-29-9 record overall and a 20-14-3 record in home games. The Predators have a -25 scoring differential, with 213 total goals scored and 238 allowed.<\/p>\n
Montreal has a 40-21-10 record overall and an 18-8-8 record in road games. The Canadiens have a 36-8-9 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Canadiens won the last matchup 3-2 in overtime. Cole Caufield scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Steven Stamkos has 36 goals and 22 assists for the Predators. Filip Forsberg has five goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson has 11 goals and 59 assists for the Canadiens. Caufield has seven goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 6-3-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.8 assists, 3.7 penalties and 9.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 7-3-0, averaging 3.3 goals, six assists, 3.2 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Alexandre Texier: day to day (lower body), Patrik Laine: out (lower-body), Kirby Dach: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Montreal Canadiens (40-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Nashville Predators (34-29-9, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-525352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nashville","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nashvillepredators","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116300210852899103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}