"I really liked our game," Preds Head Coach John Hynes said following Saturday's OT loss. "I thought we were engaged, and we talked a lot about being a hard team to play against - physically and mentally… It was a very intense game, very physical, not a lot of free ice out there, both teams really battled hard, so I'm proud of our guys' effort tonight. I thought that's more of the style of game that we want to play, and we continue to have those different challenges that we talked about. I thought we had a strong game [today] against a really good hockey team."
"We all just understand that sometimes it's just not your night, you're not going to win a hockey game, but we can't really control that," Preds forward Colton Sissons said. "We can control our effort and the attitude that we come and play with, and most nights we've done that this year. I think that's why we are where we are in the standings, and I thought it was there tonight. So, we'll continue that moving forward."
Defenseman Mattias Ekholm joined forward Filip Forsberg on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Saturday, and both players were absent against the Bruins. However, forward Yakov Trenin was removed from the protocol list and returned to the lineup, as did defenseman Mark Borowiecki who was back after missing one game with a lower-body injury.
The Predators did not practice on Sunday, but they did make a few roster moves by reassigning forward Matt Luff to the taxi squad, recalling defenseman Jeremy Davies to the taxi squad from Milwaukee (AHL) and reassigning goaltender Tomas Vomacka to Florida (ECHL) from Milwaukee.