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Connor Ingram was ready to just get it over with.
"My first shot in the Western [Hockey] League, my first shot in the American [Hockey] League both went in, so I was just kind of half expecting that the first one would go in today - but it didn't," Ingram said wryly on Sunday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. "That was a nice way to start."
Instead, the 24-year-old goaltender, making his NHL debut with the Predators as they finished a back-to-back weekend set by facing the Wild, didn't allow his first goal until his club already had a 3-0 lead against an undefeated Minnesota team that was no longer perfect by night's end.
Ingram only allowed two of the 35 shots he faced behind him to collect his first victory - a 5-2 win - to give Nashville a much-needed triumph away from home and boost the belief in the locker room once more.
Smashville Scope: October 25
Connor Ingram's First Win, Nashville's Power-Play Success, Zachary L'Heureux's Offensive Outburst and More in This Week's Smashville Scope, Presented by JOCKEY
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