Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Vancouver Canucks (14-10-5, 23 points) and Nashville Predators (13-11-3, 29 points) go head-to-head live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville for the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Vancouver fans can hear all of the action by adjusting their radios to TEAM Radio 1040 while Nashville fans can do the same on 102.5 The Game.
Vancouver closes out its four-game road trip in search of its third win on the swing while Nashville is looking for a win after opening its homestand with two straight losses.
The Canucks are coming off of a 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.
"When you score two quick ones in a road game, it backs them off a bit," Ryan Kesler said of the win at Carolina, according to NHL.com. "You've got to give them credit though. They came back in the second and it was a whole new hockey game."
Kesler had two goals in the win and is third on the team in scoring with 20 points off of 12 goals and eight assists. Henrik Sedin leads the team with 28 points off of seven goals and 21 points while Daniel Sedin has 10 tallies and 15 helpers for 25 points thus far.
The Predators were shutout by the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday before falling in a shootout to the Philadelphia Flyers for their second straight loss to open up their homestand on Saturday.
"I thought we probably deserved a better fate," coach Barry Trotz said via NHL.com. "We played well enough with the young defense. Any one of their defensemen has more experience than all six of ours. We should have won the game, but we didn't."
The Preds have been led by David Legwand, who has 20 points off of five goals and 15 assists while Craig Smith has lit the lamp six times and added nine helpers for 15 points and Patric Hornqvist has found the back of the net six times and added eight assists for 14 points.
Marek Mazanec has appeared in 11 games between the pipes for Nashville and is 5-4-1 with a 2.00 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage with Pekka Rinne sidelined while Roberto Luongo has gone 11-8-5 with a 2.41 GAA and a .911 save percentage.
The Canucks look for their third win in four games while the Predators try to avoid a third straight home loss when the lights come on at Bridgestone Arena tonight in Nashville.
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