Montreal Canadiens vs Nashville Predators Match Player Stats On Jan 03, 2023

Six different players scored and the Nashville Predators smashed the visiting Montreal Canadiens 6-3 on Tuesday.

The Canadiens have now lost six straight and allowed six goals or more in three straight losses.

Nino Niederreiter had a trio of assists for the Predators, who now have points in six of their last seven games.

Nashville jumped out to a big first-period lead before Montreal momentarily made it close.

Cody Glass opened the scoring at 4:10 of the first period, tipping a power-play shot by Mattias Ekholm. Colton Sissons made it 2-0 at 5:49 when he finished an odd-man break with Filip Forsberg.

Ekholm then pushed the Predators advantage to 3-0 at 10:42 on a slap shot right as a Nashville power play expired.

Cole Caufield ended Nashville's onslaught with his 22nd goal, a slick backhand to cap a breakaway with 50 seconds remaining in the first period to make it 3-1.

Josh Anderson pulled the Canadiens within 3-2 at 6:40 of the second period, but Nashville answered with another three-goal run.

Thomas Novak made it 4-2 at 8:18 of the second period off a pass from Yakov Trenin. Roman Josi pushed the advantage to 5-2 at 17:48 of the period on a dish from Novak.

Matt Duchene added a power-play goal at 4:43 of the third period to give Nashville a 6-2 lead, this time assisted by Josi and Mikael Granlund.

Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal with 3:01 remaining for the final goal of the game.

Juuse Saros made 24 saves for Nashville in the victory. Sam Montembault gave up all six goals on 34 shots.

Nashville went 2-for-4 on the power play and was perfect on four penalty kills.

--Field Level Media