It was Josi's 12th multi-point outing of the season, and with a helper on Turris's goal, he recorded his 50th point of the season to become the first defenseman in Predators franchise history to record at least 50 points in four separate seasons.
"It was a pretty complete game," Josi said. "We talked about having some consistency and having a couple good games in a row. I thought we played two good games, and now we have to focus on the next one and do it again."
Michael Amadio broke Rinne's shutout midway through the third, but that was as close as the Kings came, with the Nashville netminder stopping 28 of 29 shots he faced on the evening.
The Predators started the week with a 5-3 win in Dallas on Tuesday night, and from the time that game ended until this one began, the key word was consistency. Nashville wanted nothing more than to follow that victory up with another solid outing, and they were ready to go from the start.
"We talked about the speed a lot, but you have to have that," Rinne said. "Every team in the League nowadays play a fast game. We had that, and I thought we came out really well, played with that quickness and physical play. We talked about following up from the Dallas game. It's nice to win two in a row, and hopefully we can start making some noise and put a streak together."
The effort was good enough to vault them back atop their division, and while that placement could come to an end as early as Friday night, the view is still a desirable one, another taste of where they'd like to be when the regular season is all said and done.
"It's such a good division," Josi said. "You always want to move up on the leaderboard. Obviously, we've got some games ahead, but for now we're in first and we're going to play hard to stay there."