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It was a harmless looking a play, the collision between Nashville Predators winger Kevin Fiala and goaltender Pekka Rinne in Calgary on Friday.

Yet, the damage cause by Fiala sliding into his goaltender as Calgary Flames forward Sam Bennett cut across the net and slid the puck past Rinne, has cost the Predators their starting goaltender for at least a week.

On Saturday morning as the Predators were preparing to face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place, it was announced Rinne had been put on injured reserve, out with an undisclosed injury.

Juuse Saros, who was likely going to get the start in Edmonton anyway in the second game of a back-to-back, will carry the load for the Predators in the meantime.

“You can never really tell,” said Predators forward Filip Forsberg. “We’ve seen things that look really big be nothing and we’ve seen nothing plays be something. But we can’t really be focused on that, we’re just excited to rally behind Juuse and we’re really confident with him as well.”