Tyson Jost set up the game winner, the insurance marker and added an empty-netter in the third period as the visiting Nashville Predators doubled up the San Jose Sharks 6-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Filip Forsberg scored twice and added an assist, while Steven Stamkos, Ryan O\u2019Reilly and Erik Haula also scored for the Predators (36-31-9, 81 points), who moved into the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Roman Josi and Adam Wilsby added a pair of assists each for Nashville, which has won back-to-back games and improved to 16-16-6 on the road this season.<\/p>\n
Juuse Saros made 24 saves to improve to 15-2-1 against the Sharks.<\/p>\n
Nick Leddy scored and added an assist, and Macklin Celebrini and Alexander Wennberg scored for the Sharks (36-32-7, 79 points), who had their four-game winning streak snapped in the loss.<\/p>\n
Yaroslav Askarov stopped 28 shots.<\/p>\n
Nashville got the go-ahead goal at 8:28 of the third as O\u2019Reilly snapped a Luke Evangelista pass past Askarov.<\/p>\n
Haula added an insurance short-handed goal at 17:26 of the third, one-timing Jost\u2019s dump in glove side past Askarov.<\/p>\n
Jost scored his empty-netter at 18:45 of the third.<\/p>\n
Trailing 3-0, San Jose scored three straight to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Leddy got the Sharks on the board at 15:49 of the second, snapping a William Eklund pass stick side past Saros.<\/p>\n
Celebrini pulled the Sharks to within one with 19 seconds remaining in the middle frame, snapping a floater over the glove of Saros.<\/p>\n
Wennberg tied it 3-3 1:06 into the third, going end-to-end, skating around Jonathan Marchessault, and putting the puck between the pads of Saros.<\/p>\n
Forsberg scored twice in a 1:16 span as Nashville opened a 2-0 lead midway through the first period.<\/p>\n
Nashville opened the scoring at 8:38 of the first period on a power play as Forsberg one-timed a Marchessault feed past Askarov.<\/p>\n
The Predators doubled their lead 9:54 later as Forsberg knocked in the rebound off Miles Wood\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n
Stamkos made it 3-0 at 16:55 of the opening frame on a power play, snapping a shot glove-side past Askarov from the face-off dot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Jost set up the game winner, the insurance marker and added an empty-netter in the third period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-542195","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\/116352673569184481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542195","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=542195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}