Predators Take Care of Business at Home, 3-1 Over Blues

Nashville got the job done at home, beating St. Louis 3-1 in a result that the scoreline makes plain. Three goals for the Predators and one for the Blues is a comfortable margin, and it tells you who controlled the scoreboard when the final horn sounded.

Here's what we know: the final is 3-1, Nashville was the home side, and the Blues left with one goal to show for their trip. We won't pretend to have a play-by-play breakdown we don't have. What we can say is that a team scoring three and limiting its opponent to one is doing the fundamental things right, whatever the shot chart looks like.

For St. Louis, the one-goal output is the real problem. Good teams find a way to score more than once on the road, and a single goal in a loss is the kind of number that gets a coach's attention on the flight home. For Nashville, it's a result that keeps them firmly in the conversation and gives the building a reason to feel good about the night.

No pick was published for this one, so there's no ticket to cash or burn. Just a solid home win, a quiet road night for the Blues, and a scoreline that does most of the talking. Sometimes the simplest recap is the honest one.