Matt Duchene notched a hat trick in the third period, but the Nashville Predators fell to the Montreal Canadiens by a 6-3 final on Saturday night at the Bell Centre. The result moves the Preds to a 9-7-1 mark as they complete a stretch of eight out of nine games on the road to start the month of November.
Nashville outshot Montreal by a 15-9 mark through the opening 20 minutes, but the Canadiens had the 1-0 lead courtesy of Artturi Lehkonen. Then, the Canadiens scored four more times in the first 10:08 of the second stanza as Christian Dvorak, Brendan Gallagher and Ryan Poehling - twice - beat Juuse Saros.
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