Game remained scoreless through two periods and while Detroit had a 17-3 shots advantage in the period, the scoring chances were still fairly even. Nashville may well have had more scoring chances than shots on goal in the period, including a partial breakaway by Shea Weber with 7:15 left in the frame that was poked checked off his stick and a great pass from Radulov to Fisher 4:10 into the frame that Fisher was unable to handle resulting in a shot wide.

THREE MUSINGS FROM THE PERIOD:
New Line Combinations -- The Preds shuffled lines in the second period with:
    Fisher centering Erat and Radulov
    Spaling centering the Kostitsyn Brothers
    Legwand centering Bourque and Hornqvist
    (Gaustad remained centering Halischuk and Yip)


Starting To Click -- The Erat-Fisher-Radulov trio started to generate some offensive looks later in the period. Erat and Radulov are both dangerous, creative offensive players and Fisher is a solid "North/South" player to complement the creative wingers. Keep an eye on them in the third period. Those three accounted for six of Nashville's 20 shot attempts through the first two periods.


Slow Start To The Period -- It took Nashville nine minutes before the Preds first shot on goal, but it resulted in a quality scoring chance --- with Gaustad (in for the faceoff) winning a draw to spring the outlet with Fisher and Erat and then finding Fisher high in the center slot for a tricky snapshot with traffic in front of the net. To be fair, Detroit only had one real good scoring chance in the opening half of the period itself, the result of a Nashville turnover on a clearing attempt which led to a scrum in the goal crease.