Nashville Predators (35-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (36-31-7, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators visit the San Jose Sharks after the Predators knocked off the Los Angeles Kings 5-4 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
San Jose has a 20-12-5 record in home games and a 36-31-7 record overall. The Sharks are 18-5-6 in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
Nashville has gone 15-16-6 in road games and 35-31-9 overall. The Predators have a 29-6-3 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The Predators won the last matchup 6-3.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Macklin Celebrini has 40 goals and 65 assists for the Sharks. Alexander Wennberg has four goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Filip Forsberg has 35 goals and 33 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has scored six goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, five assists, 3.3 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Predators: 6-4-0, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.6 assists, 4.1 penalties and 10.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd), Igor Chernyshov: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators (35-31-9, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (36-31-7, in the Pacific Division) San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[1698,2617,37676,3577,5,164,145,2409,231,5281,4,292,2410,7590,168,43,1489,2415,4894],"class_list":{"0":"post-538270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-data-skrive","11":"tag-filip-forsberg","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-igor-chernyshov","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-nashville","16":"tag-nashville-predators","17":"tag-nashvillepredators","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-hockey","20":"tag-predators","21":"tag-ryan-reaves","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-steven-stamkos","25":"tag-tennessee","26":"tag-tn-state-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116340274838826387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538270","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=538270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}