Nashville at Columbus

We were on the Predators last night as they cruised to their eight straight. Tonight they look to start 9-0, just one win shy of the record held by Toronto back in 1993-1994 (10-0 start). They should get the win in easy fashion tonight against the Blue Jackets who have dropped five of their last six and are no match for Nashville. Columbus typically starts slow. They are just 11-31 in the first half of the season over the last 3 seasons. Home teams off two straight games in which they allowed 5+ goals facing anopponent off a game where 7 or more total goals were scored are 21-40 since 1996. Tomas Vokoun is en fuego, halting 95% of the shots coming his way over the last four games (132/139). Nashville has a 3 goal per game advantage on offense coming into this one primarily because they are converting about 3 times as many shots on goal. One star on the Predators to move one step closer to history.