After profitable simply 4 instances in 13 November contests, the Nashville Predators are in search of a Black Friday deal that may give them two factors.

Within the second sport the place newcomer Steven Stamkos will face his former workforce, the Predators will host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday afternoon to finish the season sequence.

Each side will probably be seeking to rebound from disappointing blown leads on Wednesday that left a bitter style the night time earlier than Thanksgiving.

For Nashville, it was easy: Shut down the ultimate seconds of the house matchup with the Philadelphia Flyers and take the turkey time off realizing it might meet the Lightning on a excessive word.

That did not occur.

Main 2-1 because the clock wound down and the visiting internet was empty, Philadelphia’s Morgan Frost chipped within the tying purpose with solely a dozen seconds left.

Flyers captain Sean Couturier, who assisted on the equalizer, put the sport away in extra time with the same chip shot on the opposite aspect of goaltender Juuse Saros.

“We have developed some resiliency, however we have had too many of those sorts of video games,” Nashville coach Andrew Brunette mentioned of his membership, which is 4-6-3 this month. “The satan is within the particulars, and we missed a number of particulars.

“It will be an enormous take a look at on Friday.”

With bodily defenseman Jeremy Lauzon injured, the Predators recalled blue-liners Adam Wilsby and Nick Blankenburg from their AHL affiliate Milwaukee Admirals and inserted them into the lineup.

“I believed he was actually good — sort of what I had seen in camp,” Brunette mentioned of the 24-year-old Wilsby’s NHL debut. “I believed he had actually good mobility and was agency on the puck in his battles. I believed each guys performed nicely.”

Two nights after hitting the web 5 instances within the opening 20 minutes in a house win over Colorado, the Lightning continued their torrid first-period scoring by getting two previous Washington Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren.

Nonetheless, the Capitals, taking part in their fourth sport with out star sniper Alex Ovechkin (fractured fibula), battled again 3 times to tie the competition earlier than Tom Wilson put the win away with a power-play tally with 3:26 left in regulation.

A bit worse than Nashville within the last body, the Lightning surrendered a pair of one-goal leads within the third to lose for the third time in 4 outings (1-2-1).

Brayden Level crafted the fifth hat trick of his profession, although the third tally occurred in unusual style.

The middle was the final dwelling participant to the touch the puck earlier than Lindgren inadvertently backhanded the puck into his personal internet with out a defender anyplace close by.

Lightning heart Anthony Cirelli, whose six-game purpose streak ended, dedicated a double-minor high-sticking penalty late within the tie sport — a four-minute energy play with 4:03 left in regulation.

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper mentioned the puck getting into the zone was offside. Nonetheless, the play continued as regular with Cirelli quickly committing the infraction.

“It is powerful, nevertheless it’s the best way the foundations are,” mentioned Cooper. “If a purpose is scored, it’s going to come off the board. However a penalty taken doesn’t come off the board.

“It is sort of an unlucky circumstance … however ultimately you have to kill it off, and we did not kill it off.”

The Lightning received the primary assembly in opposition to the Central Division membership 3-2 in extra time on Oct. 28 in Tampa.

–Subject Degree Media