Bruce Cassidy is shaking things up with his club on the brink of elimination.

The Boston Bruins head coach made more than one tweak to his forward lines ahead of Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday, with the Bruins trailing the second-round series 3-1.

Here's how they looked ahead of Game 4, which the Lightning won 4-3 in overtime Friday night:

So, to summarize Sunday's changes:

• Ryan Donato is moving up to the second line to play alongside David Krejci and Rick Nash.
• Jake DeBrusk is swapping places with Donato and moving down to the third line with Sean Kuraly and David Backes.
• Backes is taking that spot on the third line, moving up from the fourth unit.
• Riley Nash is drawing back into the lineup, while Brian Gionta is sitting out.

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Jake Guentzel is apparently off the hook.

The Pittsburgh Penguins forward will not face a hearing to answer for his check on Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson in Game 5 of their second-round series Saturday night, The Washington Post's Isabelle Khurshudyan reported Sunday, adding that it was considered a full-body hit.

Guentzel caught Carlson up high behind the Capitals' net with the Penguins trailing 5-3 late in a game they ultimately lost 6-3.

Carlson went to the bench after absorbing the hit, and the club said postgame that he was being evaluated.

Capitals head coach Barry Trotz called it a headshot but stopped short of saying it was suspension-worthy, stating he'd "leave it up to the league."

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It will be a somewhat unfamiliar situation for the two Toronto Maple Leafs goaltenders at the World Championship on Monday.

Curtis McElhinney will start against Denmark, Team Canada head coach Bill Peters told reporters including TSN's Ryan Rishaug on Sunday after McElhinney stopped all 25 shots he faced in Canada's 10-0 destruction of South Korea.

That means he'll square off against his NHL netminding partner, Frederik Andersen, the Maple Leafs starter who's representing the host Danes.

Andersen will have his work cut out for him against a Canadian squad oozing talent including the likes of Connor McDavid, Mathew Barzal, Brayden Schenn, Jordan Eberle, Ryan O'Reilly, Colton Parayko, and Aaron Ekblad.

Denmark earned a shootout win over Germany in its opener Friday before being shut out 4-0 by the United States the next day. Andersen has a .925 save percentage through two games.

McElhinney will be starting his second game in as many days, but he wasn't exactly overworked in his first appearance of the tourney Sunday. Darcy Kuemper played in Canada's shootout loss to the U.S. on Friday.

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Team Canada didn't have much trouble with South Korea on Sunday, and that's putting it mildly.

Tyson Jost scored twice, and he was one of nine Canadian players to light the lamp in a 10-0 victory over South Korea at the World Championship in Denmark.

Canada held a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes but blew it wide open with a six-goal second period. South Korea was out-shot 50-25 in the game.

Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Jordan Eberle, Brayden Schenn, Colton Parayko, Ryan O'Reilly, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Joel Edmundson potted the other goals for Canada.

Curtis McElhinney made 25 saves for the shutout.

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Even after getting annihilated 6-2 in Game 5 by the Winnipeg Jets, P.K. Subban is awfully confident his Nashville Predators can win Game 6 and force a Game 7 back in the Music City.

"We're going to go (to Winnipeg), we're going to win a game and come back here. It's that simple," he said, according to Adam Vingan of the Tennessean.

The charismatic Subban is no stranger to bold predictions. After going down 2-0 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in last year's Stanley Cup Final, he guaranteed a win in Game 3, which the Preds won 5-1.

Can he go two-for-two? We'll find out Monday in Game 6.

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Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson is being evaluated after taking a high hit from Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jake Guentzel in Game 5 on Saturday night.

Capitals head coach Barry Trotz was not pleased.

"John took a high hit. He was unsuspecting, with about a minute left. He's being evaluated right now," he said, according to ESPN's Greg Wyshynski. "I know the standard's been set, so I'm going to leave it up the league. It was a head shot in my opinion."

Here's a look at the hit:

Carlson is the Capitals' top blue-liner, so any time missed would be detrimental to the team's chances of moving on. This is especially true considering Tom Wilson is still suspended for one more game, Andre Burakovsky hasn't played since Game 2 of the first round, and Nicklas Backstrom left Game 5 with an upper-body injury.

On the flip side, Guentzel has 10 goals and 21 points this postseason, so if he were to be suspended, the Penguins would be missing an irreplaceable piece of their offense.

Game 6 is set for Monday night in Pittsburgh, as Washington holds a 3-2 series lead.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Kyle Connor scored two goals and had an assist as the Winnipeg Jets beat the Nashville Predators 6-2 on Saturday night, pushing the Presidents' Trophy winners to the brink of elimination with a 3-2 lead in their Western Conference semifinal.

Now the Jets, who just won their first playoff series in the first round, will have a chance to clinch a spot in their first Western Conference final Monday night in Game 6 back in Winnipeg.

Connor Hellebuyck made 38 saves for the Jets.

Dustin Byfuglien and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist, and Paul Stastny and Mathieu Perrault also scored as the Jets got four goals on 14 shots in the second period. Blake Wheeler also had three assists, and Nikolaj Ehlers added two.

Yannick Weber and Ryan Johansen each scored for Nashville. The Predators have not won consecutive games since taking a 2-0 lead over Colorado to start the playoffs.

Pekka Rinne, Nashville's Vezina Trophy finalist, was pulled for the third time this postseason after giving up six goals on 26 shots.

Lady Antebellum became the latest star act to handle the U.S. anthem, and the Grammy-winning trio missed part of the lyrics . But Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton waved the rally towel, and one of first catfish to hit the ice was tossed by Caleb Daniel, a 5-year-old Predators fan with a new heart.

Nashville coach Peter Laviolette switched his lines again, swapping out Scott Hartnell for Kevin Fiala. This change didn't work.

Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice brought back Perrault on the third line after missing eight games with an upper-body injury.

The Predators had plenty of great scoring chances while outshooting the Jets 11-7. Only a great performance by Hellebuyck kept it scoreless through the first period for the first time in this series.

They made up for that in the second. Patrik Laine helped get the Jets on the board with a shot that deflected off Stastny's right hand and past Rinne at 7:44. Defenseman Yannick Weber tied it up for Nashville with a wrister from the left circle at 11:08 .

Then the Jets scored two goals 2:05 apart. First, Connor scored off the rebound of a shot by Scheifele with 7:30 left for his first postseason goal, then Rinne lost his stick in a scrum in the crease. The puck squirted out, and Byfuglien scored with a slap shot for a 3-1 lead with 5:25 remaining. Connor made it 4-1 with a wrister from the slot with just under three minutes to go.

The period seemed to be slipping further away from Nashville when Viktor Arvidsson went to the box for slashing. But Johansen scored his fifth goal this postseason with 2:01 remaining for the first short-handed goal of his career in the postseason.

The Jets made it 5-2 just 28 seconds into the third, stifling any Nashville rally when Scheifele scored his ninth goal this postseason from the slot . Perreault capped the scoring at 6:23 to chase Rinne for the second time this series.

NOTES: Nashville now is 0-4 when trailing after two periods. ... Weber's goal was the fourth of his career in the postseason and first with Nashville.

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Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne was yanked in the third period of Game 5 against the Winnipeg Jets after allowing six goals on 26 shots.

This is already the third time this postseason - and the second time this series - that Rinne has been pulled mid-game in favor of Juuse Saros.

Mathieu Perreault, who hadn't played since Game 1 of the first round against the Minnesota Wild, notched the sixth tally that led to Rinne's departure.

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