{"id":237051,"date":"2025-10-24T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237051\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:44:12","slug":"predators-defeat-canucks-end-4-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237051\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators defeat Canucks, end 4-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith gave the Predators a 2-1 lead at 5:09 of the third period on a redirection of a shot from the point through traffic by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/justin-barron-8482111\" title=\"Justin Barron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barron<\/a>. Demko got a piece of it, but the puck trickled over the goal line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a swipe at it and got kind of mauled there and missed it,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIf that wouldn\u2019t have crossed the line, I would have been seeing that one all night. But thankfully it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly gave the Predators a 1-0 lead at 9:01 of the second period on a wrist shot from the left circle on a short-handed rush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going in easy right now,\u201d Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cI think we\u2019re sticking with it. I think there\u2019s some things that we can do a little bit better offensively. I think we pass up a lot of shots in good areas. We\u2019re a little slow to pull the trigger. I think we get ourselves in the slot and we don\u2019t shoot, or it gets blocked just because we\u2019re a little slow. But I think the greasy goals, that\u2019s part of what a lot of our guys can bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sasson tied it 1-1 at 11:49 of the second on a wrist shot on the rush. He got around Barron entering the zone and beat Saros through the five-hole. The forward has three goals in five games this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel really good,\u201d Sasson said. \u201cI feel fast. I feel a lot more confident than I was last year. My mindset is in a good spot, and I just try to look forward to the next day after games are over. Doing a better job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith gave the Predators a 2-1 lead at 5:09 of the third period on a redirection of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-237051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}