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Filip Forsberg had a goal and an assist for
Nashville. Jeremy Lauzon, Tommy Novak, Gustav Nyquist and Juuso
Parssinen scored the Predators' other goals.
Kevin Lankinen stopped 19 of 22 shots to earn his sixth win in
nine starts this season.
Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist for Dallas, which won its
previous two games. Wyatt Johnston and Jani Hakanpaa also
scored.
Jake Oettinger turned aside 32 of 36 shots in his return to the
ice. The goaltender had missed the Stars' previous 12 games due
to a lower-body injury.
Nashville outshot Dallas 38-22 in the game, and 32-15 over the
final two periods. Fifteen of the Predators' shots came in the
second frame, as Lauzon and Novak scored to give the visitors a
2-0 lead at the second intermission.
That lopsided period set the stage for a wild, seven-goal third
period. The Stars made it a one-goal game on three occasions,
only for Nashville to continually respond and restore the
multi-goal advantage.
Hakanpaa converted a well-placed shot at 1:09 into the third
frame to put the Stars on the board. O'Reilly countered with a
tally at the 3:41 mark. The forward has 12 points (three goals,
nine assists) over his past nine games.
Johnston scored on a delayed penalty at the 8:11 mark, but
Forsberg answered on a Nashville power play just under two
minutes later. The Stars struck yet again with a power-play goal
of their own, as Duchene delivered a perfectly-placed shot at a
tight angle from the right circle 13:36 into the period.
The Stars' decision to pull Oettinger with just under three
minutes remaining didn't pay off, as Nyquist and Parssinen iced
the game with empty-net scores. Nyquist has 14 points (seven
goals, seven assists) over the course of a 10-game points
streak.
--Field Level Media
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