NHL · Friday 25 September · First Horizon Coliseum
Carolina Hurricanes – Nashville Predators 6:5: NHL, 25/09/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Head to head · 2
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NHL: Carolina Hurricanes – Nashville Predators 6:5 (25 September). Carolina Hurricanes won. Venue: First Horizon Coliseum.
By period: 0:3, 3:2, 3:0. Nashville Predators led after the first period (0:3), but their opponents came back to win.
Goals: V. Pinchuk (Nashville Predators); C. O'Hara (Nashville Predators); J. Marchessault (Nashville Predators); L. Stankoven (Carolina Hurricanes) ×2; A. Edstrom (Nashville Predators); J. Drury (Nashville Predators); J. Kotkaniemi (Carolina Hurricanes); J. Jaaska (Carolina Hurricanes); J. Valimaki (Carolina Hurricanes); F. U. Sorum (Carolina Hurricanes).
Table now: Carolina Hurricanes — 1st, 30 points from 19 matches; Nashville Predators — 6th, 21 points from 17 matches.
Head to head (2): Carolina Hurricanes — 1 win, Nashville Predators — 1.
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolina Hurricanes | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Nashville Predators | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 01'
🏒 V. Pinchuk0:1
assist: T. Molendyk
- 05'pen.
Hooking
- 07'
🏒 C. O'Hara0:2
Power-play
- 15'
🏒 J. Marchessault0:3
assist: V. Pinchuk
2nd period
- 01'
🏒 L. Stankoven1:3
assist: T. Hall, N. Fransen
- 03'
🏒 A. Edstrom1:4
assist: T. Molendyk
- 03'pen.
Delay of game
- 06'pen.
Holding
- 08'
🏒 J. Drury1:5
assist: F. Nilsson
- 12'
🏒 J. Kotkaniemi2:5
assist: P. Joseph
- 16'
🏒 J. Jaaska3:5
assist: J. Kotkaniemi
3rd period
- 06'pen.
Interference
- 08'
🏒 J. Valimaki4:5
assist: T. Hall, L. Stankoven · Power-play
- 10'pen.
Elbowing
- 15'pen.
High sticking
- 18'
🏒 L. Stankoven5:5
- 19'
🏒 F. U. Sorum6:5
assist: B. Nadeau
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 13
- 23
- 32
- 42
- 52
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
Carolina Hurricanes
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L. Stankoven | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| T. Hall | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| J. Kotkaniemi | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| F. U. Sorum | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Jaaska | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Valimaki | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| B. Nadeau | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Blake | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| N. Fransen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| P. Joseph | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Heimosalmi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| C. Legault | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| S. Brind'Amour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Nashville Predators
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V. Pinchuk | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Molendyk | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| A. Edstrom | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| C. O'Hara | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Drury | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| J. Marchessault | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| F. Nilsson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| I. Lyubushkin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 0Shots on goal2
- 0Saves0
- 0%Save %100%
- 0Faceoffs won0
- 0Penalty minutes0
- 0Penalties0
- 0Power-play goals0
- 0%Power play %0%
- 100%Penalty kill %100%
- 0Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 30 | WWLWW | |
| 6 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 21 | LWWWW |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points (goals + assists)
Goal scorers
Assists
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
H — home, A — away
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).