Nashville is sitting in the 6th spotin the West, tied with the Kings, so they need to continue winning and this game starts before the Kings game that goes off later tonight, so Nashville will not know how the Kings do, so they want to put CBJ away and away early and they do not want to get in a dogfight with them or even go to OT. Let's roll with the Preds here as they are the far superior team and will be motivated.