Overview
- The matchup in Nashville on Thursday is Game 71 for both teams and finds the Predators at 34-28-9 with 77 points in the West’s final wild-card slot.
- Nashville’s five-game win streak has produced 20 goals, with Filip Forsberg, Jonathan Marchessault, and Steven Stamkos driving the attack.
- New Jersey has gone 8-3-0 since February 28, following Tuesday’s 6-4 win in Dallas led by two Jack Hughes goals, yet sits 11 points out of an East wild-card.
- Juuse Saros enters on a 4-0-1 run with a .924 save percentage, while Devils goalies Jacob Markstrom and Jake Allen have recent wins but uneven numbers.
- The Devils await word on winger Arseny Gritsyuk after he left the Dallas game for imaging, and they took the first meeting 3-2 in overtime on January 29.