Coyotes vs Predators 8/4/20 - NHL Picks & Predictions

The Arizona Coyotes look to take a two-game lead in their best-of-five qualifying series against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday. The Coyotes won Game 1 on Sunday 4-3. The Arizona victory came in the Coyotes first postseason game in eight years. Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored the first goal for Arizona and the Coyotes took a 3-1first period lead and Nashville could not recover. Darcy Kuemper made 40 saves in net for the Coyotes.

Christian Dvorak, Clayton Keller, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Michael Grabner have each scored goals for Arizona while Phil Kessel and Taylor Hall each have two assists to lead the Coyotes. In net, Darcy Kuemper is 1-0-0 with a goals-against of 3.05 and save percentage of .930.

Nashville trailed 4-1 entering the third period, but scored twice in the final. to make the game much closer. Filip Forsberg scored a pair of goals in the loss for Nashville and Ryan Ellis also scored one goal. Juuse Saros made 33 saves in net for the Predators in the loss. Nashville was in sixth place in the Western Conference when the coronavirus pandemic halted play.

 Filip Forsberg leads Nashville in goals scored in the playoffs with two and is tied for the lead in points with Ramon Josi with two. Josi leads the Predators in assists with two. In net, Juuse Saros is 0-1-0 with a goals-against average of 4.11 and save percentage of .892.