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Nashville Predators (17-15-7) at Chicago Blackhawks (25-12-5)
6PM Central
WGN/Fox Sports Tennessee


PROJECTED GOALIES:

Nashville, Pekka Rinne
Chicago, Corey Crawford


STATS:

GPG/GA
Nashville 2.79/2.62
Chicago 2.69/2.40

SF/SA
Nashville 31.5/30.1
Chicago 29/31.2

POWER PLAY
Nashville 19.5%
Chicago 18.6%

PENALTY KILL
Nashville 82.1%
Chicago 75.4%


NOTES:
Riding a modest 2-game winning streak, the Blackhawks need to play well, if not win, tonight at home versus a divisional foe and likely playoff team in Nashville.

Nashville comes into the UC pretty banged up—James Neal, PK Subban, and Mikka Salomaki are on the IR. Viktor Arvidsson and Colin Wilson are day to day. The Preds lost in their last outing, 2-1, at Florida on Friday.

I would look for similar Chicago lines tonight to how they were composed Friday versus Carolina.

I'll recap tomorrow.



JJ

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