The Nashville Predators had been waiting for a break to go their way to help the team shake its November malaise. It didn't take long to generate momentum Saturday night.

Filip Forsberg scored 20 seconds into the game and Juuse Saros made 24 saves to help the Predators snap a six-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Blues.

"We're trying to get that one (victory) and we got it," left wing Austin Watson said. "When you're in it rough like that, like we were, that first one is hard to get. It feels like it eludes you no matter what you do, so credit to everybody in here from staff to players."

Mattias Ekholm, Colton Sissons and Calle Jarnkrok also scored for Nashville, which won in St. Louis for the first time since December 2017.

Saros improved to 2-5-1 this season with his first win since Oct. 26 at Tampa Bay.

"I thought the guys played hard and invested a lot and got the win, so I thought it was important," Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. "The guys have been working hard and the results came tonight."

Klim Kostin and Alex Pietrangelo scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington made 39 saves two nights after stopping 40 shots in a 5-0 victory over Calgary.

St. Louis was outshot 22-9 in the first period, and the 43 shots allowed marked a season high for the defending Stanley Cup champions.

"We didn't close anything out in our own end," Blues coach Craig Berube said. "We've got to play better defense. We've got to play harder. We've just got to play better."

Forsberg set the tone early when he put Viktor Arvidsson's rebound past Binnington for his 10th goal and fifth in eight games.

Ekholm gave Nashville a 2-0 lead with his fourth of the season. His shot ricocheted off Blues defensemen Jay Bouwmeester and Justin Faulk before glancing off Binnington's blocker and into the net.

Kostin put St. Louis on the scoreboard with his first career goal 14:55 into the first.

Sissons extended Nashville's lead to 3-1 when he pushed a puck lying in the crease underneath Binnington's pad with 1:26 remaining in the period.

"You start the first shift and you get a goal right away and you get a couple more in the first, it helps," said Predators defenseman Roman Josi. "We haven't been great in the first. It gives you that momentum for the whole game."

In the game between Sharks and Islanders, Logan Couture of the Sharks scored in overtime for the second straight game, giving his team a 2-1 win over the streaking New York Islanders on Saturday night.

Couture scored at 2:30 of the extra period to lead the Sharks to their eighth win in nine games.

Couture, who had the overtime winner in Thursday's 2-1 victory over Vegas, extended his point streak to six games with three goals and seven assists over that stretch.

The Sharks' captain scored his fifth goal on a one-timer from Evander Kane on Saturday.

"Those are two plays where I’m just kind of in the right place at the right time," Couture said. "Kaner made a great play tonight and we found a way to win."

Casey Cizikas scored and Semyon Varlamov finished with 24 saves for New York, which extended its franchise record by earning a point in its 17th straight game (15-0-2).

San Jose, which was 4-10-1 after losing its fifth straight on Nov. 2, has a winning record (12-11-1) for the first time this season.

"We're right in it now after a horrendous start," Couture said. "We've given ourselves an opportunity to make a push here and collect more points, so I think that's enough motivation right there."

Marcus Sorensen also scored and Martin Jones stopped 27 shots for San Jose. The Sharks tied an NHL record with their 43rd straight win in games it allowed two goals or fewer. The streak, which dates back to March 10, 2018, matches a mark set by Pittsburgh from Feb. 21, 2012 to Oct. 17, 2013.

Sorensen got the game's first goal at 6:38 of the second as he tipped a pass from Mario Ferraro for his fourth goal.

The Islanders tied it 27 seconds later when Cizikas tipped Adam Pelech's shot from the point for his fourth. San Jose challenged the play for goaltender interference, but the goal was upheld.

The Islanders were 0 for 6 on power plays against the NHL's best penalty-killing unit.

"I think we could've been smarter and not take as many penalties as we did, but we found a way, and been kind of the story lately," Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. "We've been dealing with some injuries and some depth issues, we didn't help ourselves tonight by getting in the box, but we still found a way and I thought it was a pretty gutsy effort."

New York didn't get a shot on goal until Devon Toews' wrister from eight feet out at 6:46 of the first. New York was held to seven shots in the first.

The Sharks took the game's first eight shots on goal but were outshot 28-26.

"The first five minutes they came at us pretty hard," Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. "I thought we settled in after that. For the rest of the game I thought we played pretty well."

"It really came down to that one play at the end. They have the No. 1 (penalty-kill) in the league for a reason. They put a lot of heat on you. They take away a lot of your options. They jam you up in small spaces and jump. I thought we adjusted to that as the game went on and we kept adjusting to their game. We were trying to get a little more zone time and some more looks but we couldn't, but it came down to just that one play at the end."

(Ｗith inputs from AP)