Nashville Predators vs Arizona Coyotes
Regular season · Thursday, March 15, 2018 · Gila River Arena
FS-A PLUS · FS-TN
Game summary
The Nashville Predators beat the Arizona Coyotes 3–2 on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at Gila River Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Predators 34–29.
Goals came from Christian Dvorak, Ryan Ellis, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Kyle Turris and Kevin Fiala.
Pekka Rinne made 32 saves on 34 shots for the win; Darcy Kuemper stopped 26 of 29.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NSH | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 |
 ARI | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 34 |
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Christian Dvorak (15)Max Domi (27)0–104:09 ARI
Ryan Ellis (7)Craig Smith (20), Kyle Turris (28)1–105:49 NSH
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (11)Clayton Keller (32), Derek Stepan (33)1–216:28 ARI
3rd period
Kyle Turris (13)Kevin Fiala (22), Craig Smith (21)2–200:22 NSH
Kevin Fiala (23)Kyle Turris (29)3–204:31 NSH
Team stats
NSHARI
2934
51%49%
0/30/5
128
2929
2015
913
111
Penalties
- 12:05 into the first periodAnthony Bitetto · holding2 min
- 17:59 into the first periodOliver Ekman-Larsson · cross checking2 min
- 17:59 into the first periodCraig Smith · roughing2 min
- 1:38 into the second periodNick Cousins · tripping2 min
- 14:25 into the second periodColton Sissons · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 2:06 into the third periodScott Hartnell · holding2 min
- 5:29 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 8:47 into the third periodDerek Stepan · hooking2 min
- 9:27 into the third periodBrad Richardson · high sticking2 min
- 11:39 into the third periodKyle Turris · holding2 min
Season series
Nashville Predators
| 8Kyle TurrisC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 15:54 |
| 15Craig SmithC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 12:40 |
| 22Kevin FialaL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 6 | 16:06 |
| 4Ryan EllisD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 23:12 |
| 9Filip ForsbergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:38 |
| 10Colton SissonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 13:10 |
| 13Nick BoninoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:48 |
| 17Scott HartnellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:35 |
| 20Miikka SalomakiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:29 |
| 33Viktor ArvidssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 14:47 |
| 38Ryan HartmanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:53 |
| 51Austin WatsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:09 |
| 92Ryan JohansenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:50 |
| 2Anthony BitettoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:16 |
| 14Mattias EkholmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:08 |
| 25Alexei EmelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:22 |
| 59Roman JosiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:08 |
| 76P.K. SubbanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Pekka RinneG | W | 34 | 2 | .941 |
| 74Juuse SarosG | 0 | 0 | – |
Arizona Coyotes
| 9Clayton KellerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19:17 |
| 16Max DomiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 18Christian DvorakL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 16:59 |
| 21Derek StepanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:48 |
| 23Oliver Ekman-LarssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22:33 |
| 11Brendan PerliniL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 15:42 |
| 13Freddie HamiltonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:31 |
| 14Richard PanikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:05 |
| 15Brad RichardsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:27 |
| 25Nick CousinsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 13:18 |
| 36Christian FischerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:46 |
| 45Josh ArchibaldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:03 |
| 48Jordan MartinookL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:50 |
| 4Niklas HjalmarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:37 |
| 6Jakob ChychrunD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 5 | 20:15 |
| 33Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 23:13 |
| 44Kevin ConnautonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 13:51 |
| 55Jason DemersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Adin HillG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Darcy KuemperG | L | 29 | 3 | .897 |