Nashville Predators at Florida Panthers odds, picks and prediction

The Florida Panthers and Nashville Predators play the first half of their back-to-back set in Sunrise, Florida, on Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Nashville is a four-5-0 team.

Nashville Predators are playing against Florida Panthers.

Juuse Saros is the starting goalie for Nashville Predators. Sergei Bobrovsky is a perfect 3-0. Nashville lost 4-1 to Tampa Bay Lightning last time out. Florida Panthers are the current third place in the NHL standings.

Predators and Panthers are ranked evenly in analytics. The Panthers have 7 goals on 19 opportunities and a good special teams. Predators have 13 power-play goals allowed in 37 shorthanded situations and have a penalty-kill percentage of 64.86. Preds haven't scored more than 3 goals in a game since Jan. 16.