STOCKHOLM -- No one is more familiar with what a trip to the NHL Global Series, to Stockholm specifically, can do for a team than Steven Stamkos .

When Stamkos and his Tampa Bay Lightning team went overseas early in the 2019-20 season, it had such an impact on them, on their bonding, on their psyches, that the word "STOCKHOLM" ended up emblazoned on the Stanley Cup rings they won months later.

It's something the Nashville Predators could use now.

"With where we are as a group, we have to think of it that way," Stamkos said. "We have to think about, OK, this could be something that could lead to a run that gets us back in the mix. And that's really all we're thinking about, is just trying to accumulate as many points as we can. I think we have to think of it that way, that this can be

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