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Sharks Completely Collapse As Nashville Scores Six Unanswered; Predators Win 7-5

max miller
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The Nashville Predators scored six unanswered goals and rallied to defeat the San Jose Sharks 7-5 on Tuesday.

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The Sharks had a 5-1 lead with 16:32 left in the second period. Nashville then came all the way back and won the game for their fourth straight. Prior to tonight, Nashville had never come back to win a regular season game after being down four goals.

Nashville got goals from Tommy Novak, Roman Josi (2), and Jonathan Marchessault. Juuse Saros started the game and was pulled after the first period. He made four saves. Justus Annunen would win the game in relief, making 15 saves.

The Sharks have lost four straight and went 1-4 on their five-game road trip. Macklin Celebrini and Jake Walman scored for the Sharks. Jake Walman also scored, while Alexandar Georgiev made 34 saves.

San Jose was terrific in the first period, then collapsed as they were outshot 33-16. The team looked shell-shocked and tired as they played the second half of a back-to-back.

To make matters worse, the Predators and Sharks will play again on Thursday in SAP Center. Nico Sturm was a late scratch with a lower-body injury. Nikolai Kovalenko returned from a lower-body injury.

Celebrini gave the Sharks a 1-0 lead just 1:07 into the first period with a perfect shot over Saros's glove.

At 11:42, Kunin gave the Sharks a 2-0 lead with another shot over Saros's glove.

14 seconds after Kunin scored, Granlund pushed the Sharks lead to 3-0.

Novak would get the Predators on the board with a rebound in front at 12:20.

The Sharks weren't done scoring in the first period. Alexander Wennberg found Jake Walman on a mini 2-on-0, and the defenseman went backhand.

Granlund would score his second of the game 4:28 into the second period. Granlund's goal gave him 100 points as a member of the Sharks.

The Predators would score two goals in 53 seconds by Fedor Svechkov and Justin Barron.

28 seconds into the third period, Jonathan Marchessault makes it 5-4 with a tap-in goal.

The Predators have tied the game 5-5 after Josi's power-play goal at 5:23 of the third.

Nick Blankenburg scores the fifth unanswered goal for the Preds as they take a 6-5 lead.

Josi added an empty netter for the 7-5 final.

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