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Predators ousted in first round of playoffs after Canucks score late

AP photo by George Walker IV / Nashville Predators center Gustav Nyquist bends over as he skates off the ice at Bridgestone Arena on Friday night after the team's 1-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. Vancouver won the best-of-seven series in the first round of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs 4-2.
AP photo by George Walker IV / Nashville Predators center Gustav Nyquist bends over as he skates off the ice at Bridgestone Arena on Friday night after the team's 1-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. Vancouver won the best-of-seven series in the first round of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs 4-2.

By TERESA M. WALKER / The Associated Press 4 min read

NASHVILLE — Rick Tocchet told Pius Suter to keep shooting.

The forward took his coach’s words to heart, and it paid off.

Suter scored with 1:39 left, and the Vancouver Canucks advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Friday night in Game 6. Of Suter’s five shots in the game, three were in the third period.

“If you keep going to those spots, it’ll happen,” Tocchet said, “and it happened for Suits, and big game-winning goal for us.”

Nashville, trying to take the best-of-seven series the distance and set up a decisive meeting Sunday in Canada, had a final chance to force overtime with a power play with 33.9 seconds left after Elias Lindholm was called for cross-checking Gustav Nyquist. Even with goalie Juuse Saros pulled for an extra attacker, the Predators couldn’t beat rookie Arturs Silovs in the net before time expired.