Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho scored for the Hurricanes, who lost two of three road games going into the midweek layoff.

Saros stopped 25 of 27 shots in Monday's 4-2 win over the Hurricanes. Saros was impressive in this contest and only allowed two goals in the second period en route to his eighth win of the campaign.

Jakub Vrana scored his third goal in as many games for Washington, which took only its fourth loss in a 14-game span (10-3-1) ...

Jonathan Marchessault had two goals and an assist and the Nashville Predators have won back-to-back games for the first time ...

Jonathan Marchessault tallied twice and the Nashville Predators defeated the Carolina Hurricanes by a 5-2 final on Monday ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jack Hughes had his second two-goal game of the season against the New York Rangers and Jacob Markstrom ...

In the last game before the winter break for the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes traveled for the second game of a back-to-back ...

Filip Forsberg, Jonathan Marchessault lead Predators with three points apiece as Nashville goes 3-0-1 in four-game homestand.

Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho combined for Carolina goals 40 seconds apart in the third period to cut the Nashville lead.

Jonathan Marchessault scored two goals and had an assist to lead the Nashville Predators to a 5-2 win over the Carolina ...

The Nashville Predators play the Carolina Hurricanes at Bridgestone Arena on Monday before a three-day holiday break.

The Nashville Predators play the Carolina Hurricanes at Bridgestone Arena on Monday before a three-day holiday break.