Nashville Predators: Ranking the Biggest Wins of the 2020-21 Season

Overtime thriller against the Panthers

This was early on in the season and we were already starting to see troubling signs from the Predators. They had just been beaten twice by the Tampa Bay Lightning and looking to avoid a long losing streak.

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This game was back-and-forth between the Predators and Panthers. We’ve become accustomed to that in this season series.

Eventually the Panthers would take a 5-3 lead and it looked over as the Panthers already had two power play goals and Saros had been pulled for Rinne.

Rinne would make all 12 saves on 12 shots to keep the Predators in it.

The comeback was on for the Predators as Roman Josi made it 5-4 with just over two minutes left in regulation. The team relentlessly didn’t give in and Matt Duchene, yeah that guy many people can’t stand, scored the equalizer on the power play with less than 60 seconds left on the clock.

Plenty of drama late in this one due to the Panthers having a failed challenge that led to the Predators getting a fortunate power play opportunity. They made the Panthers pay on the coaching mistake, and then overtime came.

That’s when Filip Forsberg would make the steal in the neutral zone and put the wicked wrister right past Sergei Bobrovsky to get the Predators their fifth win of the season. They had over 40 shots on goal in that wild game.