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Glendale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - Mike Fisher had a goal and an assist in Nashvilles 5-1 win over Arizona Thursday. Fisher, who missed nearly the first two months of the season due to an Achilles injury, netted his first goal of the campaign that ended a long power-play drought for the Predators. Pekka Rinne made 28 saves in Nashvilles second straight win. James Neal also tallied a goal and an assist, while Shea Weber and Filip Forsberg each had a pair of assists. Ryan Ellis, Olli Jokinen and Calle Jarnkrok all tallied goals for the Preds. Mike Smith allowed five goals on 38 shots in the Coyotes fourth straight loss. Antoine Vermette scored the lone Arizona goal. Two minutes after Vermette gave Arizona a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal, the Predators got a chance with the man advantage themselves. After going scoreless on their previous 28 attempts, the power play finally came through when Fisher redirected a Weber shot by Smith to tie the game. Seconds after its second power play expired, Nashville went ahead 2-1. Smith allowed a huge rebound off a shot by Fisher, then Neal knocked the puck by Smith to give the Predators the lead. With 1:30 remaining in the first period, the Predators extended their lead when Neal puck-handled around three Arizona defenders through the neutral zone and made a cross-ice pass to Ellis crashing the net at the opposite post. Ellis was able to tap the puck in for the 3-1 lead. After a scoreless second period, Arizona returned to the ice putting pressure on Nashville. The Predators called timeout and not even 20 seconds later, Jarnkrok poked the puck by Smith in a scramble in front to extend Nashvilles lead to 4-1. Jokinen added a goal five minutes later to account for the final margin. Game Notes Arizona is 0-12-0 when trailing after two periods ... The Predators were 1- of-5 on the power play, and the Coyotes were 1-of-3 ... Nashvilles Roman Josi played in his 200th NHL game. 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Thats the way we want to continue to play and we want to enforce that on other teams," said Canucks centre Ryan Kesler, who scored in the second period. "We want to do that every night. We want to win that way." Daniel Sedin had a goal and an assist, and Brad Richardson and Jason Garrison -- into an empty net -- also scored for the Canucks (1-1-0) as Roberto Luongo made 21 saves. Henrik Sedin picked up three assists as Vancouver rebounded from Thursdays season-opening 4-1 road loss to the San Jose Sharks in impressive fashion. "We were aggressive, we put a lot of pressure on their (defence)," said Henrik Sedin. "We didnt really play this way for the last couple of years, we were sitting back a little bit more and played a little more on the safe side." Tortorella, who replaced the fired Alain Vigneault in the off-season, has answered repeated questions about the players ability to adapt to his system. The Canucks showed spurts in their season-opening road loss to San Jose but Saturdays performance was closer to what the coach envisioned. "We were pretty consistent tonight in our attack," said Tortorella. "(Im) pretty satisfied with that part of the game." Luongo, back as Vancouvers No. 1 goalie after the the Canucks traded Cory Scheinder to the New Jersey Devils, had a good view of his teams domination of Edmonton. "Thats one of the best games Ive seen this team play in a long time," said Luongo. "It was 60 minutes. It was hard. We sustained pressure the whole game." Jeff Petry and Boyd Gordon had the goals for the Oilers (0-2-0). Devan Dubnyk allowed five goals on 31 shots before being replaced in the second period by Jason LaBarbera. The Edmonton backup finished with 12 saves. Oilers rookie head coach Dallas Eakins has spent the pre-season trying to shake the teams image of being in rebuild mode, stressing that the time to win is now. Its clearly going to take some time. "Old habits die hard," Eakins said. "I was encouraged with certain things going through the pre-season. I was more encouraged even though we let that game get away against Winnipeg (a 5-4 season-opening home loss). "Tonight we are back to square one. This isnt going to be an easy process here. We will dig our heels in and continue on." After the teams exchanged goals in the games first four minutes, the Canucks carrried the play for the rest of the period, with Hamhuis and Hansen beating Dubnyk in quick succession late to give Vancouver a 3-1 lead after 20 minutes.dddddddddddd Hamhuis made it 2-1 with a shot from just inside the Edmonton blue-line that took a deflection off Petrys stick with 1:33 left in the period. The fans at Rogers Arena had barely sat down from celebrating that goal when Hansen, who took the spot of the injured Alexandre Burrows on Vancouvers top line, beat Dubnyk from the slot to give his team a 3-1 edge at 18:45 as the Canucks closed out the period with a 22-8 advantage on the shot clock. Vancouver then made it 4-1 on the power play at 7:21 of the second on a picture-perfect passing play. Alexander Edler fed Henrik Sedin, who in turn found his brother Daniel with a no-look spin-o-rama pass in front of a helpless Dubnyk. The Vancouver onslaught continued at 13:56 when Kesler ripped a shot past Dubnyk from the top of the faceoff circle with the teams playing 4-on-4. That spelled the end of the night for the Edmonton goaltender, who was replaced by LaBarbera. "We shot a lot tonight. It was good to see. We had a lot of second and third opportunities. When you shoot that much youre going to get six goals," said Kesler, who finished with nine shots. "You shoot that much, you play that much with the puck, youre going to tire out the other team." Gordon gave Edmonton some life when he scored off an odd-man rush at 15:23 but the Oilers still trailed by three after two periods and wouldnt get any closer in the third before Garrison iced it with a short-handed empty-net goal at 18:16. The Oilers got on the board first at 1:58 of the opening period when Petry beat Luongo five-hole from a sharp angle with both teams down a man. But the lead didnt last long as Richardson, who joined the Canucks as a free agent in the off-season, raced in on a short-handed breakaway and beat Dubnyk between the pads to tie the score at 3:42 before Hamhuis and Hansen scored late in the period. "We really did come out OK," said Oilers left-winger Taylor Hall, who was minus-4. "We scored the first goal. They scored right after that and we just kind of fell off the wagon there." Notes: Garrison also added an assist. ... Burrows is expected to miss a couple of weeks after breaking a bone in his foot blocking a shot in the loss to San Jose. ... David Booth took Hansens spot on the second line with Kesler and Chris Higgins. ... Edmonton lost left-winger Jesse Joensuu to a back injury in the first period. Eakins said he will be re-evaluated Sunday. ... The Oilers were without centres Sam Gagner (broken jaw) and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (shoulder surgery). Edmonton expects to have Nugent-Hopkins back for Mondays home game against the New Jersey Devils. Canucks right-winger Zack Kassian served the fifth game of his eight-game suspension for the hit that broke Gagners jaw. 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