Preds affected by COVID-19 get sixth consecutive victory driven by Forsberg.
In a span of fewer than 24 hours, the Nashville Predators had three head coaches.
The franchise has had that number of head coaches since its inception in 1998.
That’s what you have 14 people from your organization on the NHL’s COVID protocol list can make a team.
When head coach John Hynes was included on the league roster Wednesday, he joined three other coaches and six players. That wizard on the left Dan Hinote to act as head coach for Thursday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche.
Except Hinote was placed in protocol Thursday morning, along with forwarding Nick Cousins, eliminating the entire Predators coaching staff.
“It is a new world that we are in. You always have to expect the unexpected,” said Filip Forsberg.
The Predators requested help from Milwaukee on Thursday, remembering five players and three coaches: head coach Karl Taylor, who made his NHL coaching debut and served as the Predators head coach Thursday, assistant Scott Ford and assistant general manager Scott Nichol.
“They didn’t let anything become a distraction today,” Taylor said. “It was like putting on a nice pair of shoes that I had in the garage for a long time … It was also very exciting to write Roman Josi’s name on the card. It was a new experience for me.”
Center Ryan Johansen was the first to make the list when he landed there before Sunday’s game against the New York Rangers.
Forwards Mikael Granlund, Matt Luff, Michael McCarron and Philip Tomasino, as well as defender Ben Harpur, followed him there on Wednesday, along with six other coaches: Hynes, assistants Dan Lambert and Todd Richards, and goalkeeping coach Ben Vanderklok.
Forward Nick Cousins joined them Thursday morning as the league continued to experience its biggest outbreak of the season. Forward Matt Duchene also missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury.