Predators 3, Maple Leafs 2
TORONTO -- Left winger Filip Forsberg scored the first three goals of the game and the Nashville Predators held on to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday.
Defenseman Roman Josi added two assists for the Predators, who earned at least one point in each of their past nine road games.
Left winger Josh Leivo and defenseman Morgan Rielly scored for the Maple Leafs in the third period.
Centers Nazem Kadri and Peter Holland each had two assists for Toronto while goaltender James Reimer made 23 saves.
Nashville goaltender Carter Hutton stopped 25 shots in his 11th game of the season.
The Predators (29-21-11) were coming off a 2-1 shootout win over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday.
The Maple Leafs (20-28-10) have lost four games in a row.
The Predators led 1-0 after the first period and 3-0 after the second period with 21-year-old Forsberg scoring the natural hat trick,
The Maple Leafs snapped the shutout on a power play goal at 2:23 of the third period when Leivo scored his third goal of the season from the slot. It came with eight seconds left in a hooking penalty to Josi.
Rielly scored his sixth goal of the season at 17:37 of the third.
The Predators took a 1-0 lead on a power play when Forsberg scored his first goal of the game on a nifty move, going from his backhand to forehand to beat Reimer after center Mike Ribeiro's pass put him in the clear. The goal came at 5:46 of the first period, 35 seconds after Toronto center Peter Holland was penalized for elbowing.
The Maple Leafs came out strong to begin the second period and defenseman Jake Gardiner rang a shot off the post behind Hutton in the first minute.
The Predators withstood the pressure and took a 2-0 lead at 3:40 of the second period on the second goal of the game by Forsberg, a shot from the slot that trickled past Reimer.
Forsberg scored his third of the game and 23rd of the season on a rebound at 5:36 of the second period and Nashville led 3-0. The goal came on Nashville's 10th shot of the game.
Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis had a goal disallowed at 17:55 when a video review determined that it followed an offside.
The Predators were playing without defenseman Shea Weber, who was out with a lower-body injury.
NOTES: The Maple Leafs recalled D Stuart Percy and LW Brendan Leipsic from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL on Monday. The Predators traded Leipsic to the Maple Leafs last year. ... The Maple Leafs sent D Roman Polak and C Nick Spaling to the San Jose Sharks for second-round draft picks in 2017-18 and LW Raffi Torres on Monday. They acquired a 2016 fourth-round pick and C Colin Smith from the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday for C Shawn Matthias. ... After a two-game break, Nashville G Pekka Rinne has a 0.97 goals-against average and a .966 save percentage in three games, including the 2-1 shootout win on Monday at Montreal. G Carter Hutton started for Nashville on Tuesday. ... Toronto is home to the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. ... The Predators wind up a three-game trip on Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks.