ST. LOUIS — P.K. Subban had a goal and two assists and Vernon Fiddler scored with 5:05 left, sending the Nashville Predators to a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series on Wednesday night.
The Predators lost Kevin Fiala to an ugly leg injury in the second period and blew a 3-1 lead before Fiddler poked a loose puck by Jake Allen in the third. It was the fifth career playoff goal for the 36-year-old Fiddler, who did not play in Nashville’s first-round sweep of Chicago.
Colin Wilson and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, and Pekka Rinne made 27 saves.
Colton Parayko, Jaden Schwartz and Vladimir Sobotka scored for St. Louis. Allen finished with 28 stops.
Game 2 is Friday night.
NOTES
JACK ADAMS AWARD: Toronto’s Mike Babcock, Edmonton’s Todd McLellan and Columbus’ John Tortorella are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL coach of the year.
Members of the NHL Broadcasters’ Association voted at the end of the regular season, with the top three designated finalists. The winner will be announced June 21 at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas.
Babcock led Toronto to a fourth-place finish in the Atlantic Division and the second wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Maple Leafs were 30th in the NHL the previous season.
Tortorella’s Blue Jackets set franchise records for wins, points, home wins and road points. Tortorella won the award with Tampa Bay in 2003-04. McLellan guided Edmonton to its first playoff berth since 2005-06.
The award honors the late Jack Adams, the longtime coach and general manager of the Detroit Red Wings.
CANUCKS: Vancouver named Travis Green its new coach.
Green spent the last four seasons coaching the Canucks’ top farm team, the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League.
Before that, he coached the Portland Winterhawks to a 2012-13 Western Hockey League title and an appearance in the 2013 Memorial Cup final.
He replaces Willie Desjardins, who spent the last three seasons in Vancouver.
Desjardins was fired this month less than 24 hours after the Canucks finished the season 29th in the overall standings.
STARS: Forward Tyler Seguin had surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder and should be ready for training camp in September.
The team said Seguin had the procedure Tuesday and was expected to make a full recovery in four months.
Seguin, 25, led the Stars in scoring with 72 points (26 goals, 46 assists) in a disappointing season. Dallas missed the playoffs a year after being the top seed in the Western Conference and winning a first-round series against Minnesota.
The Stars didn’t renew coach Lindy Ruff’s contract and hired Ken Hitchcock, the coach for the franchise’s only Stanley Cup title in 1999.
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