Close, but no cigar this time for Isles

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Filip Forsberg and Roman Josi scored in the shootout to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday.

Tanner Jeannot scored twice and Juuse Saros made 34 saves in regulation and overtime for Nashville, winners of three straight.

“We have a lot of confidence in (Jeannot),” Predators coach John Hynes said. “He’s really picked up where he left off last year. We saw some good signs when he got called up and the games he played at the end of the season and into the playoffs.”

Ilya Sorokin made 21 saves in regulation and overtime and Anthony Beauvillier and Oliver Wahlstrom scored for the Islanders, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.

“I liked our game,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “This is a hard building to come into. We were emotionally engaged right from the start.”

Beauvillier scored the game’s first goal at 14:46 of the opening period on a New York power play.

With Ryan Johansen in the box for holding the stick and Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm having lost his stick early in the penalty kill, the Islanders moved the puck around the Nashville zone and Josh Bailey found Beauvillier just below the right faceoff dot, where he beat a sprawling Saros with a wrist shot up high.

Jeannot tied it at 6:54 of the second.

Skating in the right side, Jeannot cut to the faceoff dot, where his wrist shot handcuffed and beat Sorokin.

The Islanders regained the lead at 12:04 of the second on Wahlstrom’s power-play goal.

He beat Saros high to the blocker side just underneath the cross bar with a wrist shot from the left circle.