Pre-Game Capsule: Coyotes at Predators

GAME 47:
Coyotes (10-28-8) at Predators (26-11-6)
Arizona will play at Nashville on Thursday night looking to snap a four-game winless streak (0-1-3) since beating the Predators on Jan. 4 in Glendale.

WHERE: Bridgestone Arena
WHEN: 6 p.m. (AZ time)
TV: FOX Sports Arizona
RADIO:Arizona Sports 98.7 FM

KEY FACTS:
• Arizona will enter this game looking to snap a six-game losing streak at Nashville. The Coyotes are 0-4-2 in the Music City during that stretch and were outscored, 20-10, in those games.
• Goalie Antti Raanta will make his 25th start of the season. Raanta is 2-2-0 in five career games vs. Nashville with a 2.93 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage. He stopped 37 of 39 shots in 62:19 vs. the Predators on Jan. 4 to earn his sixth win of the season.
• Rookie Clayton Keller leads the Coyotes in goals (14), assists (20) and points (34), and has notched at least one point in 10 of his past 13 games.
• Alex Goligoski is leading the team's defensemen with 22 points and 17 assists. He needs just three more helpers to notch his ninth consecutive 20-assist season. At the other end of the ice, Goligoski leads Arizona with 70 blocked shots.

• Brad Richardson has scored two goals in the past three games after scoring just one in his first 37 games. He needs two points to reach 200 for his NHL career, which began in 2005-06 with Colorado.
• The Predators have won three games in a row since losing to Arizona, 3-2, in overtime on Jan. 4 in Glendale. Nashville, which is 14-4-2 at home, ranks third in the Western Conference with 58 points. The Preds last played Tuesday and blanked Conference-leading Vegas, 1-0, on home ice. Backup goalie Juuse Saros stopped all 43 shots he faced in that game and might start again over Pekka Rinne. P.K. Subban ranks second on the team and fourth among NHL defensemen with 33 points. Nashville has the League's fourth best power-play unit at 24.1 percent.

COYOTE BITES
• "They've got a lot of weapons and they've got good goaltending. For us to be successful, we've got to make sure that we're playing good defensively. I've always found it tough to play there (in Nashville) when I started, but it's getting to a whole other level. It's a hell of a barn to play in so I think it's going to be good for the young guys who haven't played there to see. It's fun to play there. It can be intimidating, but you've just got to enjoy the moment. Their fans are rowdy. It's cool to see and cool to be part of it." -- Jason Demers on playing at Nashville
• "We need to play like we played the second half of the game against San Jose the other night. We put out a really good team effort in that game, so if we can just keep on doing that and score when we get the chances we've got a good chance to win." -- Antti Raanta on playing at Nashville
• "It's a loud building and it's almost like their fans are a seventh man for them. They're loud, and when they put the pressure on you, you've got to make that play under pressure to quiet them a little bit because if you make mistakes after mistakes they just keep on going and the building gets louder and louder. That's something good teams can do - they can quiet a crowd by making a really good play here or there under pressure." -- Rick Tocchet on playing at Nashville