Nashville Predators Beat Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 As Roman Josi And Ross Colton Each Record Goal And Assist

Predators Beat Hurricanes 4-1 Behind Josi And Colton’s Big Night© Instagram

Carolina walked into Nashville on Tuesday night as one of the hottest teams in the NHL. The Hurricanes had earned points in six straight games, won four in a row, and had Pyotr Kochetkov riding a 10-game winning streak in goal. None of it survived the night at Bridgestone Arena. The Predators built a lead in the first period, extended it in the second, and controlled the third to close out a 4-1 win that ended Carolina's points streak and handed Kochetkov his first loss of the season. Roman Josi and Ross Colton each finished with a goal and an assist. Filip Forsberg added two assists, his fifth straight multipoint game, tying a franchise record Josi himself set in 2021.

How Nashville Built the Lead

Nick Perbix opened the scoring at 12:32 of the first period, finishing a cross-ice feed from Forsberg on a shot from the right face-off circle for his first goal of the season. Josi doubled the lead early in the second, converting a backdoor pass from Forsberg with a close-range snap shot. Carolina cut the deficit to one when Jackson Blake backhanded a loose puck past Juuse Saros after Josi had blocked his first attempt, but that was as close as the Hurricanes would get. Adam Edstrom tipped in a Josi point shot at 5:40 of the third to restore the two-goal cushion, and Colton sealed it with an empty-netter at 19:20. Saros was steady throughout, stopping 29 of 30 shots.

Debuts, Streaks, and Context

Shane Wright made his Predators debut after arriving from Seattle in a trade for Matthew Wood, playing 14:32 and finishing plus-two. Nashville improved to 6-4-5 and has now earned points in five of its last six games. Carolina dropped to 12-3-2 and saw its four-game winning streak snapped, though Blake extended his personal point streak to seven games with an assist on the goal. Kochetkov, who had been one of the story lines of the early NHL season, finally met a team and a building that had an answer for him.