Monday, January 25, 2021, 4:15 am – Maurizio Urech
The Nashville Predators lost 3-2 to the Dallas Stars. The San Jose Sharks defeat the Minnesota Wild 5-3.
In the second game, too, Dallas’ power play made the difference, this time Dallas scored three times in the majority through Denis Gurianov (15th), Roope Hintz (27th), Filip Forsberg also reduced the deficit to 1: 2 after 35 minutes. Seasoned Joe Pavelski made it 1: 3 after 45 minutes, Mikael Granlund cut the gap to 2: 3 after 50 minutes.
Luca Sbisa received an 11:58 ice age on his Nashville debut, blocked two shots, distributed three checks and ended the game on a neutral record.
Roman Josi received the most ice time of all field players with 24:58, blocked a shot, distributed a check, shot once on goal and walked off the ice with a balanced record.
San Jose went 3-1 up until the middle of the game thanks to goals from Ryan Donato (20th), Evander Kane (27th PP) after a back pass from Timo Meier and Noah Gregor, Zach Parise had the score after five minutes for Minnesota opened. In the 37th minute, Nick Bjugstad reduced the score to 3: 2 and it was Kevin Fiala who scored 3: 3 after 48 minutes. He used Suter’s cross pass with a placed long shot. Defender Brent Burns decided the game 108 seconds after a wonderful individual performance backhand for San Jose, 29 seconds before the end Matt Nieto hit the empty goal to make it 5-3.
Kevin Fiala won his only face-off, got 19:11 ice time, received a penalty in the middle third after a high stick against Timo Meier, blocked a shot, distributed a check, shot three times on goal and left with a minus – 2 – balance Ice.
Timo Meier also won his only face-off, got 13:47 ice time, blocked a shot, distributed three checks, got five shots on goal and a plus – 1 balance.
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