It was the stomp sort of seen 'round hockey that nobody talked about after the game.

With around 3:30 left in the third period of Anaheim's win, Bobby Ryan stepped on Jonathon Blum's foot behind the Nashville net. Both were going for the puck at the time.

Ryan will have to explain his actions during a disciplinary hearing with the league at 5pm et on Saturday afternoon.

It's unclear whether Ryan intentionally tried to step on Blum's foot.

No penalty was called. After the game, there was no talk of the play in Nashville's locker room.

The more blatant play was actually Sheldon Brookbank's butt-end of Martin Erat earlier in the period, which knocked out a few of Erat's teeth. Trotz may have mentioned the Ryan play when he asked about the Erat/Brookbank play in his postgame press conference.

"There's a couple of incidents the league will look at, they see everything," Trotz said.

According to multiple reports, Ryan will have a hearing with the NHL today. Should be interesting.

Emery sort of shines

It had been a long while since Ray Emery started a playoff game. Game 5 of the 2007 Stanley Cup finals to be exact.

And it had been a longer time since Emery had won a playoff contest - Game 3 of that same year to be exact. He looked shaky at times in allowing two third period goals, but Emery stopped 31 of 34 Predators shots to record the win for Anaheim.

According to Ducks coach Randy Carlyle, when Emery was fit and ready to go, it wasn't much of a decision to put him in over Game 1 starter Dan Ellis.

"I thought he was the logical choice once he declared himself healthy two days ago," Carlyle said. "He earned that opportunity and earned that right without hockey club, and his previous record in the games that he played for us."

Power play shines

The Predators knew the Ducks power play could provide a difference in this series if given a chance. It did in a big way Friday.

Just 6:02 into the first period, Anaheim scored two power play goals, and had built a quick 2-0 lead over Nashville.

The Ducks were only credited with the two scores with the man-advantage. But Ryan Getzlaf's goal 15:54 into the second period came six seconds after a Blake Geoffrion penalty had expired.

Simply put, Anaheim's power play was dynamite.

"We knew that going into the series that their power play is their biggest weapon," Nashville defenceman Shea Weber said.

"We did it to ourselves, we shot ourselves in the foot, came out took penalty after penalty. You give them that many chances, they're going to score."

Comeback message

Though they lost the game, the Predators scored some pretty good series points with a nice comeback.

They were down 4-1 entering the third period and brought it back to 4-3 after Joel goal 10:17 into the final frame.

Those goals didn't bring Nashville all the way back, but they did give the Predators some positive momentum they felt they could use moving forward.

"I think we never really backed down or let it go at any point. We just kept going," Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne said. "It was a good end to the game. It's a loss, but now it's a great opportunity at home."

No goal right call

Nashville coach Barry Trotz argued vehemently with the on-ice official 15:08 into the first period. David Legwand had just been called for goaltender interference, and a Predators goal was disallowed.

Upon further review, Trotz felt that it was the correct call. "We did make a little bit of contact right before.

"At first I'm always going to disagree on all those calls, because I thought it would give us some momentum, and get us rolling in the right direction. When I looked at it, I probably would agree with the referees."