GAME RECAP: Predators 5, Oilers 2

The Predators put their stamp on Saturday’s game with a three-goal second period that started with a goal less than 25 seconds after the centre-ice draw.

“I think those are key moments that we talk about all the time – the shift after a goal, the shift to start a period, the shift to start a game – so those are things that we’re saying,” Hyman said. “Those are things you talk about and things that the coach talks about, but we have to go out there and do it.”

Forsberg ripped a wrist shot from the top of the right circle that couldn’t be corralled by Campbell in Edmonton’s crease before O’Reilly put the rebound away from one knee just 23 seconds into the period to provide the Predators the one-goal lead.

“There’s no other answer. It’s just that we’re not doing it right now and we need to start doing it,” Hyman added. “I know it can sound like a silly answer, but that’s the honest truth. We know what we have to do. We’re not currently doing it, but we know we can do it, so we have to get to it.”

The two Nashville skaters would reconnect 3:01 later on the power play to double the visitors’ advantage when the Swedish winger put a cross-crease feed onto the tape of O’Reilly for a one-timer that the centre finished for his second goal of the game.

The Oilers were in need of a bounce and a change in fortune after conceding back-to-back goals to begin the second period, and their power play produced another goal after Evan Bouchard’s shot from the top of the zone was redirected into the Nashville net by the skate of Hyman.