Thirty shots, thirty saves. Juuse Saros stopped everything the Los Angeles Kings sent at him on Tuesday night at crypto.com Arena, and the Nashville Predators beat the Kings 3-0 for their fifth straight win.
The night before, in Toronto, Saros had sat with Filip Forsberg and Roman Josi and watched Pekka Rinne go into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Rinne is the man Saros backed up, learned from and eventually succeeded in Nashville's net. Twenty-four hours later, against a Kings team that had scored in 108 straight games, Saros played the kind of game his mentor built a career on.
"A special couple days," Saros told NHL.com afterward. "We got a little bit of [Pekka Rinne's] luck to go from Toronto here. Obviously a special night last night, and then [this win], it was fun." Head coach Andrew Brunette tied the night to Rinne outright. "Yeah, probably a tribute to Pekka," Brunette said of Saros. "Obviously means a lot to 'Juice,' and I thought he was outstanding tonight. [I was] kind of a little bit worried [about him] getting in late, but he wanted it. Obviously feeling pretty good after last night being there for 'Peks,' and then coming in and playing a Pekka-type game here tonight, which is good for him."
Filip Forsberg did the scoring early. He took a feed from Nils Hoglander on a 2-on-1 and one-timed it past Kings goaltender Anton Forsberg at 5:20 of the first period, then beat him again from the left circle at 10:32 of the second — his sixth goal in his past eight games — Hoglander setting him up both times. Los Angeles pushed hard in the third, sending 13 of its 30 shots at Saros in the final period, but he turned aside every one, and Adam Wilsby's empty-net goal at 17:43 closed the scoring.
At the other end, Anton Forsberg kept Los Angeles in it almost to the horn: 27 saves on 29 shots, a .931 save percentage, beaten only by the other Forsberg. Filip Forsberg gave the finish to his goaltender. "For 40 minutes, it was really good," Forsberg said. "In the last period we sat back a little bit too much, and they obviously had a good push. But, that's why we have 'Juice.' He made some great saves, but overall, a great win."
The shutout was the 28th of Saros's career, tying him with Niklas Backstrom for the sixth-most by a Finnish goaltender, per NHL Stats; Rinne leads that list with 60. It was also his first shutout since Jan. 3, 2025 — a 3-0 win at Vancouver in which he made, fittingly, 30 saves. And it ended something on the other side: Los Angeles had not been shut out since March 27, 2025, the third-longest active run in the league. Nashville has now taken a point in eight of its past nine games, and per NHL Stats it ran its road point streak against the Kings to seven games dating to March 11, 2023.
The win moved Saros to 6-3-4 on the season, and his .918 save percentage sits eighth in the league. His full season line lives on Previously's Stats Hub, and the game itself — every save, shift by shift — is on its Game Center page. Nashville’s streak and the rest of the league live on the NHL hub.
The trip does not slow down. Nashville's back-to-back set finishes Wednesday night in Anaheim, and if the past two weeks are the guide — five straight wins, a point in eight of nine — the Predators are done being the team the Central Division schedules around.
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- ESPN — Game summary, Nashville Predators at Los Angeles Kings (event 401892689), Nov. 10, 2026 — Saros's line: 30 shots against, 30 saves, 0 goals against, 60:00; Anton Forsberg: 29 shots against, 27 saves, 2 goals against
- NHL.com (Predators) — “Saros, Preds Shut Out Kings to Extend Win Streak” (Brooks Bratten, Nov. 10, 2026) — the Rinne Hall of Fame trip, the Saros and Brunette quotes, the 28th career shutout and the Finnish-goaltender list via NHL Stats, the seven-game road point streak against Los Angeles, Marchessault's absence
- NHL.com — “Forsberg scores twice, Predators shut out Kings for 5th straight win” (Nov. 10, 2026) — goal times (5:20, 10:32, 17:43), Forsberg's sixth goal in eight games, a point in eight of nine for Nashville
- Reuters — “Juuse Saros, Predators blank Kings as win streak hits 5” (Nov. 11, 2026) — 30 saves confirmed; first shutout since Jan. 3, 2025 (also 30 saves, at Vancouver); the Kings' 108-game scoring streak, third-longest active, ended
- Associated Press via theScore — “Filip Forsberg has 2 goals, Juuse Saros gets shutout in Predators' 5th straight win” (Nov. 11, 2026) — 13 third-period saves; the win opened a five-game West Coast road trip
- The Tennessean — “Juuse Saros' 'busy couple of days' ends in Predators' shutout win vs Kings” (Nov. 11, 2026) — Saros at 6-3-4 with a .918 save percentage, eighth-best in the league; the Filip Forsberg “Juice” quote
- Photos: Getty Images via NHL.com — the two wire frames published with NHL.com's recaps of this game. No photograph is captioned as a game it does not show. One caution for the record: the Predators' own social graphic for this game prints “28 saves”; the ESPN summary and every wire recap say 30, and 30 is what this story prints.
