Simulating Nashville vs. Vancouver Game 5 in NHL 24. Can the Preds bounce back from their collapse in Game 4?
Nashville was less than three minutes away from tying up the series in game four with a 3-1 lead at Bridgestone Arena on Sunday. Unfortunately for the catfish-loving home crowd, their celebrations were put to a halt when Brock Boeser scored twice in two minutes to force overtime.
It didn't take long for Vancouver to complete the comeback as Elias Lindholm was left all alone in front of the net and buried the overtime winner.
Does NHL 24 foresee Nashville bouncing back? Or will the Canucks close out the series in five?
The lines we used for our simulation are the same lines both teams rolled out for game four.
Vancouver's Projected Lines:
Suter - Miller - Boeser
Hoglander - Pettersson - Mikheyev
Joshua - Lindholm - Garland
Di Giuseppe - Blueger - Lafferty
Hughes - Hronek
Soucy - Myers
Cole - Zadorov
Silovs
Tolopilo
Nashville's Projected Lines:
Forsberg - O'Reilly - Nyquist
Zucker - Sissons - Beauvillier
Jankowski - Novak - Evangelista
Smith - McCarron - Sherwood
Josi - Fabbro
McDonagh - Schenn
Lauzon - Carrier
Saros
Lankinen
Arturs Silovs was terrific in net for Vancouver making 28 stops on 31 shots. However, it was the Predators who took game five in our NHL 24 simulation.
It was another close game as Nashville won 3-2 off of goals by Forsberg, O'Reilly, and Novak. Vancouver only registered 16 shots on net in the entire game.
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