NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Devils got plenty of offense but not a streak-breaking win.
Nick Bonino, Dante Fabbro and Rocco Grimaldi each had a goal and an assist, and the Predators beat the Devils 6-4 on Saturday night.
Yakov Trenin scored his first NHL goal, and Daniel Carr and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, which snapped a two-game losing skid. Mattias Ekholm had two assists and Pekka Rinne stopped 29 shots.
Jesper Bratt, Travis Zajac, Kyle Palmieri and Taylor Hall scored for the Devils, losers of five straight. Louis Domingue finished with 31 saves.
“I know we’ll fix it, we’ll continue to improve and try and get better,” Zajac said. “We turned some pucks over. There are plays to be made that are the right plays and we sometimes want to make the play through guys still. You don’t want to beat yourself and I think we can get better in some of those areas.”
Playing in his second career NHL game, Trenin gave the Predators the lead for good as he notched his first goal with his skate.
Grimaldi took advantage of a turnover and fired a slap shot toward the Devils’ net from the right circle. The puck glanced off of Trenin’s skate and squeezed between Domingue’s pads at 5:52 of the second to put Nashville up 3-2.
Forsberg got his 11th at 7:24 of the middle period to make it 4-2, before Palmieri pulled the Devils back within one with his 11th less than six minutes later.
Bonino restored the Predators’ two-goal lead at 5:47 of the third with his 11th.
Hall got the Devils within one again with just under nine minutes remaining, but Grimaldi sealed the win 95 seconds later.
The teams started the scoring early, combining for four goals before the game was even four minutes old.
The Predators played a video tribute for Devils defenseman P.K. Subban during a first period timeout. Subban, who played the previous three seasons in Nashville, received a standing ovation from the Bridgestone Arena crowd and he stood and waved to the fans.