Saros, Granlund and Rinne in a predicament

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Goalkeepers Juuse Saros and Pekka Rinte and striker Mikael Granlund’s Nashville Predators have found themselves in a predicament in the qualifying round of the NHL League hockey playoffs. Nashville lost to Arizona Coyotes 1-4 on Wednesday.

Arizona are now leading 2-1. You can advance with three wins. Coyotes has the first opportunity to send Predators on a summer vacation on Friday.

– This is a tight match series. The Arizona goalkeeper made a few huge fights. This is not frustration, this is the challenge of the match series. We need to find solutions, Nashville head coach John Hynes demanded on the club’s website.

In all three matches, Saros, who was responsible for Nashville’s combat work, stopped 24 puck. Arizona scored their last goal. Granlund is still looking for his first power point in the match series.

Nashville thought he had already gone 2-1 at the start of the final round with a hit by Kyle Turris. However, Arizona challenged the situation that led to the goal and the video showed Turris chain mate Matt Duchene was offside.

– It didn’t bother us. We had a couple of substitutions and seats at the attacking head right after that. This is a playoff puck. So many things are happening on the ice, Nashville star defender Roman Josi assured.

Nashville, who went into battle as a pre-favorite, is now threatened by a summer vacation. However, the captain still believes in his group.

– If we start the same way we did in this match, then I like our chances. But after that, we have to make sure we play the same way for 60 minutes, Josi said.

ARIZONA – NASHVILLE 4-1 (1-0.0-1.3-0)

1-0 Christian Dvorak (Niklas Hjalmarsson, Taylor Hall) 5:09

1-1 Viktor Arvidsson (Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen) 27:31

2-1 Conor Garland (Derek Stepan, Clayton Keller) 47:08

3-1 Taylor Hall (Phil Kessel, Oliver Ekman-Larsson) yv 55:38

4-1 Carl Soderberg tm 58:06

Goalkeepers

ARI: Darcy Kuemper 40 shots / 39 fights

NSH: Juuse Saros 27/24

Antti Raanta, Arizona not in lineup

Mikael Granlund, Nashville 0 + 0, 0, 0, 0, 17:57

Pekka Rinne, Nashville as a reserve goalkeeper

Juuse Saros, Nashville 27 shots / 24 fights

Eeli Tolvanen, Nashville not in lineup

Arizona leads the match with 2-1 victories

In Finnish statistics, goals + passes, plus minus, cooling minutes, shots and playing time.