Saros allowed three goals on 25 shots in the Predators loss in Arizona on January 4th. Despite this being their first game out of their bye week, it looks like Saros will get the nod over the rest Pekka Rinne. Following a poor start to the season, Saros has settled in recently, going 3-1-2 with a 1.33 GAA, .960 SV% and two shutouts in his last six starts.
Saros allowed three goals on 25 shots in the Predators loss in Arizona on January 4th. Despite this being their first game out of their bye week, it looks like Saros will get the nod over the rest Pekka Rinne. Following a poor start to the season, Saros has settled in recently, going 3-1-2 with a 1.33 GAA, .960 SV% and two shutouts in his last six starts.
Forsberg has missed the last five games and missed Monday’s practice, but was able to get on the ice and skate by himself after the team session. Forsberg is just about two weeks into a four-week timetable so don’t expect him to be back for a few more weeks.
Saros went to the AHL during the Predators bye week and has spent a decent amount of time with the Admirals this season. Overall he is 3-5-0 with a 2.88 GAA and .906 SV% in nine AHL games and 4-3-3 with a 2.42 GAA and .922 SV% in 11 NHL games.
Saros, 22, has gone 1-4-0 with a 3.80 GAA and .872 SV% in six games with the Admirals. Saros will head to Milwaukee to get some starts during the Predators bye week.
Saros stopped all 26 shots that he faced after replacing Pekka Rinne in the Predators loss to the Hurricanes on Thursday. After a rough start to the season, Saros has stopped 115 of the last 117 shots (.983 SV%) that he has faced coming into tonight’s game. One of those games came against the Stars, who he’ll face tonight—he stopped 43 of 45 shots in a 5-2 win on December 5th.
Englund has picked up just four assists in 29 games with Belleville this season. He has no points in five career NHL games and he could make his season Dion Phaneuf not with the team because of a personal matter.
The Predators have five days off between games so Saros went to Milwaukee to get some playing time over the weekend. Saros started two games, going 1-1-0 while allowing nine goals on 69 shots (.870 SV%) and comes back to the Predators where he will likely start one of their back-to-back games on Wednesday/Thursday.
