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Sullivan rebounds with hat trick as Preds blank Senators
Steve Sullivan's injured groin didn't slow him down. The rest it forced him to take might've even helped.
Sullivan had a natural hat trick in the second period, and Scott Hartnell added two goals to lead the Nashville Predators to a 6-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
"They were quicker, they did everything at high speed and we couldn't handle it," Ottawa Coach Bryan Murray said. "We got attached to the guy with the puck all the time, and they made cross-seam passes, and backdoor tip-ins."
It was Sullivan's sixth NHL hat trick and his third with the Predators. He scored the three goals in a span of 5:56, the quickest for any player in Nashville history. Sullivan showed no effects of a groin strain sustained a week earlier at Los Angeles that forced him to miss Nashville's previous two games.
"I just wanted to go out and get my legs underneath me," Sullivan said. "I just wanted to make sure I didn't hurt the hockey team."
Sullivan completed his hat trick by converting a cross-ice pass in the left circle from J.P. Dumont, tucking his shot just inside the left post. Dumont assisted on all three of Sullivan's goals.