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Eight isn’t enough

Although Jets sniper Patrik Laine is still looking for his first goal of the series with the Predators, he had eight shots on goal and 11 shot-attempts on Tuesday, leading many to believe he could be on the verge of breaking out.

Laine had plenty of good looks and he nearly beat fellow countryman Pekka Rinne from just inside centre with a sneak attack.

“I was just trying to fake that I’m shooting it to the rim and kind of at the last second turned and shot it at the net. And I know he’s an active goalie and he’s always trying to stop the rim so that’s a good way to try to score once in a while. He made a nice save on that,” said Laine. “That was my first try, a very good first try. I don’t know why I did that. I just figured I had to try it. It would have been a nice goal, maybe next time.”

No second helpings

As good as the Predators were in building a 3-0 lead in the first period, they gave up four goals in the second and lost control of the game.

“We just sat back too much. Obviously, they scored a goal early and after that we just became passive and, yeah, I don’t think it would have mattered which team we were playing. If we play like that, we’re going to get scored on,” said Predators forward Filip Forsberg. “We learn from everything we do, it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad, we try to take things with us. Obviously, it’s most likely going to be a long series, we’re going to do everything we can to push it to that and everything that we can take away is obviously going to be good going forward.”

During the third period, discipline was an issue as the Predators took four minor penalties, including three stick fouls when the game was tied 4-4.