NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Little Joe came up big again for San Jose.
Joe Pavelski scored twice to lead the Sharks to a 3-1 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks. Rookie Craig Smith had the lone Nashville goal.
The Sharks started the season with just one victory in their first four games but have now won three straight. Nashville has lost five of their last six.
Just 57 seconds after Smith tied the game at 1, the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Pavelski grabbed a loose puck behind the Nashville goal and stuffed it just inside the right post past goaltender Pekka Rinne.
“He’s big and a little flick of his toe, he is over there,” Pavelski said of Rinne. “He was coming, I was glad to see it went through.”
Rinne was disappointed in not being able to make that save.
“It was the next shift and it was in the back of our net,” he said. “It is a tough one to take. I can only talk about myself, and I am disappointed how it ended for myself. I can’t let that kind of goal in.”
Couture scored the game’s first goal at 14:22 of the opening period.
Pavelski added an empty
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