"[Rinne's] been solid, both goalies have been solid," Upshall said, including Jake Allen of St. Louis. "They realize they're in a position they're in because their goaltending has been great and they've been getting timely goals. We've been able to find ways to score at home against Pekka. We need to play a hard-fought game, score the first goal, play with the lead, and get them to react to us."
The Blues defensemen will try to put more shots toward the goal to create loose pucks that are hard to find, much like the goal Ryan Ellis scored to give the Predators a 1-0 lead in Game 4. Jaden Schwartz had an opportunity to give St. Louis the first goal, but his shot hit teammate Vladimir Tarasenko.
"Yesterday, there was a rebound there, I had an open net, and I think I hit Vladi's skate," Schwartz said. "That's just the way it goes sometimes. We've just got to do a better job of making tape-to-tape passes, coming downhill a little bit more and not looking for the perfect pass, just getting them on net and find a way to get rebounds. That's something we obviously want to be better at.
"Their job is to box us out, but we're getting chances, we're getting rebounds. Sometimes whether it's hitting a skate or hitting a stick, I think we're doing a pretty good job. Obviously you can always do better of taking the goalies eyes away and trying to get more numbers there. But for the most part, we've done a pretty good job. And like I said, the first few games we had some bounces going our way and the last couple we didn't. We'll turn that around on Friday."
