Nashville Predators vs Arizona Coyotes
Playoffs · Wednesday, August 5, 2020 · Rogers Place
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Game summary
The Arizona Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 4–1 on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at Rogers Place. The Predators outshot the Coyotes 40–28.
Goals came from Christian Dvorak, Viktor Arvidsson, Conor Garland, Taylor Hall and Carl Soderberg.
Darcy Kuemper made 39 saves on 40 shots for the win; Juuse Saros stopped 24 of 27.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NSH | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 40 |
 ARI | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 28 |
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Christian Dvorak (2)Niklas Hjalmarsson (1), Taylor Hall (3)0–105:09 ARI
2nd period
Viktor Arvidsson (2)Filip Forsberg (1), Ryan Johansen (3)1–107:31 NSH
3rd period
Conor Garland (1)Derek Stepan (3), Clayton Keller (1)1–207:08 ARI
Taylor Hall (1)Phil Kessel (3), Oliver Ekman-Larsson (1)1–315:38 ARI · 
Carl Soderberg (1)Unassisted1–418:06 ARI ·
Team stats
NSHARI
4028
54%46%
0/11/2
66
2234
1822
2315
711
Penalties
- 10:41 into the second periodViktor Arvidsson · high sticking2 min
- 2:03 into the third periodPhil Kessel · slashing2 min
- 14:40 into the third periodCraig Smith · illegal check to head2 min
- 18:33 into the third periodRoman Josi · roughing2 min
- 18:33 into the third periodOliver Ekman-Larsson · roughing2 min
- 18:33 into the third periodOliver Ekman-Larsson · roughing2 min
Season series
Nashville Predators
| 9Filip ForsbergL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 7 | 19:39 |
| 33Viktor ArvidssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 19:50 |
| 92Ryan JohansenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:34 |
| 8Kyle TurrisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:21 |
| 10Colton SissonsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:24 |
| 13Nick BoninoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:43 |
| 15Craig SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 12:51 |
| 19Calle JarnkrokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:27 |
| 23Rocco GrimaldiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:35 |
| 51Austin WatsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:57 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:57 |
| 95Matt DucheneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:06 |
| 4Ryan EllisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 28:46 |
| 7Yannick WeberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:21 |
| 14Mattias EkholmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 24:57 |
| 24Jarred TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:37 |
| 57Dante FabbroD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:49 |
| 59Roman JosiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 27:15 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Pekka RinneG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 74Juuse SarosG | L | 27 | 3 | .889 |
Arizona Coyotes
| 91Taylor HallL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 18:31 |
| 9Clayton KellerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:54 |
| 18Christian DvorakL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 18:48 |
| 21Derek StepanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:58 |
| 34Carl SoderbergC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:03 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:30 |
| 83Conor GarlandR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:57 |
| 4Niklas HjalmarssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:45 |
| 23Oliver Ekman-LarssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 18:44 |
| 13Vinnie HinostrozaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 10:17 |
| 15Brad RichardsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:33 |
| 36Christian FischerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:31 |
| 40Michael GrabnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:41 |
| 67Lawson CrouseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:28 |
| 6Jakob ChychrunD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:48 |
| 33Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:46 |
| 55Jason DemersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 20:37 |
| 82Jordan OesterleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Adin HillG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Darcy KuemperG | W | 40 | 1 | .975 |