It’s a Game Night on the left coast as the Nashville Predators take on the San Jose Sharks at HP Pavillion. The Predators have the unusual position of being ahead of the Sharks in the Western Conference standings. The Predators can press their advantage with a win tonight as they do have a game in hand over the Sharks.

Should the Predators manage a win in a rink that has not been very kind to the team traditionally, it would give them their first sweep of the California teams on one trip since 2008 and only the third in the franchise’s history.

The Preds have reshuffled the lineup a bit, sending down Linus Klasen and calling up Andreas Thuresson. Thuresson should play tonight, slated to start out with Jerred Smithson and Joel Ward. Nashville’s injury list has grown again as Nick Spaling joins cal O’Reilly, Steve Sullivan, Martin Erat and Matthew Lombardi on the sidelines. San Jose lists John McCarthy as out and Joe Pavelski as questionable.

Game time is 7pm Central time with coverage on FS Tennessee and 102.9 the Buzz.

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Random Notes

- Atlanta’s Ben Eager was suspended for four games for his sucker punch on Colby Armstrong in last night’s Thrasher’s – Leafs game. Well deserved…

- The trade of Jamie Langenbrunner may be the starting gun in the race to the NHL Trade Deadline on Feb. 28

-Tonight marks game 41 for the Nashville Predators, the midpoint of the regular season.

- So, Uncle Lou says that the Devils aren’t rebuilding… ummm… OK… I guess.

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COMING UP ON THE NEXT SLAPSHOT RADIO…

We will preview the NCAA game between UAH and Merrimack College coming to the Bridge with the head coach of the UAH Chargers, Chris Luongo. We’ll also take a look at the Predators-Panthers game with Florida radio play-by-play man Peter Muller. It’s all on Wednesday’s SlapShot Radio, 6pm Central on SportsRadio 560 WNSR or listen online at www.slapshotradio.com

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