NASHVILLE — The Nashville Predators (5-4-5) secured the franchise's first extra time victory of the season on Saturday with a 5-4 shootout win over the Tampa Bay Lightning (8-3-2).

The Predators' power play has received praise throughout the year as one of the NHL's best extra-man units, and came through again today with a Steven Stamkos game-tying goal at 7:27 in the third period, but it was the other special teams unit that held the line and got Nashville to ovetime.

The Predators killed a penalty in the middle of the second period and at the very beginning of the third, but the penalty killing unit was called on one final time after Adam Wilsby took a delay-of-game penalty with just over three minutes left, offering the Lightning a chance to score a late game-winning goal. Nashville stood tall for the third straight time on Halloween, preventing Tampa Bay from scoring and forcing the game into overtime.

"Yeah, it's been great," Adam Edström said of the penalty killing unit.…