Home sweet home ice? For Vegas, maybe. Nashville, not so much lately.
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Vegas went 9-3 at home on its title run last year. Nashville hasnB次元官网网址檛 won at home in the playoffs since 2021. The challenge for each team is the same: win Friday night and force a deciding Game 7 this weekend.
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CANUCKS at PREDATORS, Vancouver leads 3-2, 7 p.m. EDT (TNT)
The Predators have lost five in a row in the postseason at Bridgestone Arena dating to a first-round exit four years ago against Carolina. They blew a two-goal lead in the final three minutes of Game 4 this series, despite fans bringing and slinging catfish in the Music City hockey tradition.
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The Canucks havenB次元官网网址檛 won a series away from the Edmonton bubble since their run to the final in 2011. This season, they won 23 of 41 games on the road. Vancouver is already just the third team in NHL playoff history to get wins from three different goaltenders in the same series: All-Star Thatcher Demko in Game 1 before going down with injury, backup Casey DeSmith in Game 3 before he was unexpectedly unavailable; and rookie Arturs Silovs winning his playoff debut in Game 4.
Nashville bounced back in Game 5, which forward Michael McCarron believes gives him and his teammates some momentum.
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STARS at GOLDEN KNIGHTS, Dallas leads 3-2, 10 p.m. (TNT)
This has been a weird series, with the road team winning each of the first four games. in Dallas, then gave it right back with at T-Mobile Arena, around the league the most difficult place to play as a visitor.
Cassidy expects his team to lean on Stanley Cup-winning experience.
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One lesson: Cut down on undisciplined penalties. Vegas was whistled for four Wednesday night, and Dallas went 2 for 4 on the power play, including Jason RobertsonB次元官网网址檚 game-winning goal.
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So, too, do the Stars from the perspective of not getting too ahead of themselves with Colorado waiting in the second round after rolling over Winnipeg. No team in the NHL had more road wins during the regular season than their 26, and Dallas already has at Vegas this series to draw from.
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