{"id":15523,"date":"2026-02-16T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/15523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:48:46","slug":"predators-rally-to-beat-penguins-in-global-series-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/15523\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators rally to beat Penguins in Global Series in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Stamkos scored 44 seconds into overtime to rally the Nashville Predators to a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday in the opening game of the NHL&#8217;s Global Series in the Swedish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Stamkos&#8217; fourth goal of the season helped the Predators snap a five-game skid.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville pulled goaltender Juuse Saros for an extra attacker and Swedish star Filip Forsberg thrilled the packed Avicii Arena by tying the game at 1-all with 1:10 remaining in the third period, beating Pittsburgh goaltender Arturs Silovs with a high backhand shot that forced overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators arrived in Europe with hopes the trip could help them turn the season around. Nashville outshot the Penguins 30-17 and improved to 6-9-4.<\/p>\n<p>Saros made 16 saves and defenseman Brady Skjei assisted on the winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Evgeni Malkin broke the scoreless deadlock with 6:11 remaining in the middle period for the Penguins after the puck he sent from behind the goal toward Saros ended up in the net. <\/p>\n<p>It was Malkin&#8217;s fourth goal of the season and his team-leading 22nd point. The goal was the 518th of his career, tying him with Dale Hawerchuk for 40th place on the NHL&#8217;s career list.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators held the Penguins to two shots on goal in the period.<\/p>\n<p>The game marked a return for Malkin, together with Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang, to Stockholm where where the Penguins split a series against the Ottawa Senators in 2008 before winning the Stanley Cup that season.<\/p>\n<p>Silovs stopped 28 shots and Mathew Dumba had an assist for the Penguins, who lost the third straight game.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL has played games on the European continent as part of its efforts to grow the fan base in hockey-mad countries like Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic and others. Overall, Friday&#8217;s was the 47th regular-season game outside North America and 17th in Stockholm, more than in any other city.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators swept a 2022 series against the San Jose Sharks in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins and Predators will complete their series in Stockholm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Stamkos scored 44 seconds into overtime to rally the Nashville Predators to a 2-1 win over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[11467,9353,10356,5481,135,131,132],"class_list":["post-15523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}