The Nashville Predators will have another shot at stealing a game on the road on Tuesday when the puck drops for Game 2 against the Vancouver Canucks.
Despite falling to the Canucks by a 4-2 decision on Sunday, the Predators weren’t feeling too low, nor too concerned about their efforts in Game 1. After all, Nashville were 11 minutes away from taking a 1-0 series lead before a quick pair of costly goals ultimately saw the opposite come true for the visitors.
Still, if the Predators hope to return to Smashville with a knotted series, they know they’ll need to find another level in Game 2.
With little more than 24 hours to go before the puck drops at Rogers Arena, here are some of the best Predators quotes from Monday’s media availabilities:
Andrew Brunette on Nashville’s efforts in Game 1:
“It was a tight hockey game, and things could have went the other way. In saying all that, we could be a little sharper. I think a little bit of the rust of not playing for a week seemed to take us a while to get going a little bit, throughout the whole game. We weren't as connected as we usually are. But credit to [Vancouver], they played extremely hard… I thought if we could have got one more on the power play it would have changed a lot of different things. I thought in the second period we were getting to our game, besides maybe a couple shifts in our own zone that we'd like to have back. And then in the third for the first eight minutes I thought we were in a pretty good spot and kind of had them on the ropes a little bit. And to give them credit again, they showed some resilience and they got some big goals.”