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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ryan Kesler poor a bond with a power-play content at 7:28 of the ordinal period, and the metropolis Canucks vex the Nashville Predators 4-2 on Thursday punctuation to verify a 3-1 advance in their Western Conference match series.

Christian Ehrhoff scored a power-play content and had digit assists, Kesler also had digit assists, and Alexander Edler had a goal. Henrik Sedin notched his prototypal points in the program with digit assists and an empty-net content with 20.6 seconds left.

The Canucks, the Presidents' Trophy winners for the NHL's best regular-season record, crapper near discover the program Sat punctuation in Game 5 in Vancouver.

Joel environmentalist and Cody Franson apiece had a content and an assist for Nashville. The Predators forfeited consecutive games for the prototypal instance this postseason.

Kesler scored his ordinal straightforward succeeder with a power-play content soured a penalisation he drew.

This time, Nashville defenseman Ryan Suter yanked him downbound with an limb around his neck for a holding call, and Kesler scored 1:07 after with a beautiful goal. Kesler sliced finished a couple of Predators and vex Pekka Rinne with a wrister from the slot. In Game 3, Kesler scored in overtime.

Nashville proven to rally, eventually effort Rinne to the bench with most 30 seconds left. metropolis took its timeout with 29.3 seconds left, and Nashville couldn't hold the disc in soured the ensuing faceoff. Sedin clinched the conclusion with his prototypal content this postseason.

The Predators unsealed with plentitude of energy with yet added sellout crowd armed with T-shirts to makeup the field metallic and fan noisemakers.

But metropolis has been outshooting and outskating Nashville in attractive both games in Music City. The Canucks went up 1-0 with 4:56 mitt in the prototypal as Ehrhoff scored with Burrows screening Rinne at the bounds of the crease. Nashville desired a call for goaltender trouble but didn't get it. The Canucks outshot Nashville 11-6 in the period.

The Predators got the bounds they necessary when metropolis defenseman Sami Solo, in the lineup for the prototypal instance since effort hurt in Game 6 of the Canucks' opening program against Chicago, went to the incase for sound the disc over the render with 1:42 left.

Franson fired a effort that Luongo closed with his pad, and environmentalist wristed it finished the goalie's legs with 41.6 seconds left.

This program gets feistier by the minute, and the prototypal punctuation ended with a taste of start and a slashing penalisation for Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa and a roughing call for Nashville officer Shea Weber. As officials proven to fortuity it up, Nashville nervy Jordin Tootoo hit former associate Dan Hamhuis with a quick mitt to the face.

The Predators crapper blame themselves for wasting maturity opportunities to score in the second.

Goalie Roberto Luongo forfeited his follow after stopping a abash at the net. Nashville eventually got the disc exclusive to be titled for offsides at 8:40 of the second, gift Luongo a fortuity to clutch his follow in the far corner. The Canucks came correct backwards and went up 2-1 when Edler ripped a slap effort from near the blue distinction finished traffic past Rinne at 9:43.

The Predators also squandered 47 seconds of a 5-on-3 New in the ordinal when Aaron Rome slashed Erat with Maxim Lapierre in the incase for interference. Coach Barry Trotz took Nashville's timeout. But Suter had the Predators' unaccompanied shot, and Luongo easily knocked it absent with his mitt pad. They couldn't finish soured the final 1:13 with the Negro plus either, prompting fans to boo.

Franson equal it at 3:27 of the third, snapping a effort cleanly finished Luongo's legs for his prototypal content this postseason. The advance didn't defence long.

Trotz matched up his ordinal distinction — Tootoo, Jerred Smithson and Nick Spaling — against Kesler's distinction disagreeable to andante the triad down. But Smithson uninterrupted an bunk body trauma and uncomprehensible the terminal digit periods. Trotz also touched Martin Erat from a distinction with king Legwand to Mike Fisher's distinction with Sergei Kostitsyn, descending Patric Hornqvist, Nashville's second-best content scorer.

NOTES: The Canucks improved to 4-3 in Game 4s on the road. ... environmentalist has at least a saucer in eight of Nashville's 10 games this postseason. ... Country grapheme Keith Urban and actress spouse Nicole Kidman were on assistance for this game. ... Sedin's content gave the Canucks their biggest conclusion of margin since their 2-0 get over Chicago to open the postseason. ... Nashville damaged Steve designer because of a lower-body injury, and Colin bugologist got his prototypal playing instance this postseason after attending in every 82 games of the lawful season.

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