{"id":252712,"date":"2025-10-31T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252712\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:33:09","slug":"predators-matthew-wood-tallies-first-nhl-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252712\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators&#8217; Matthew Wood: Tallies first NHL goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761895988_326_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/NSH\/nashville-predators\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/401.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/29167368\/wood\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wood<\/a> scored a goal on four shots in Thursday&#8217;s 4-1 loss to the Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has collected two points over five appearances since his Oct. 23 recall from AHL Milwaukee. His goal Thursday was the first of his NHL career. The 20-year-old winger was limited by a lower-body injury late in training camp, but he&#8217;s looking like he belongs in the NHL now, at least as a bottom-six forward. He may not generate a ton of offense, as the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/NSH\/nashville-predators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Predators<\/a> have had trouble scoring. In addition to his two points, Wood has 11 shots on net, five hits and a plus-1 rating so far.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wood scored a goal on four shots in Thursday&#8217;s 4-1 loss to the Flyers. Wood has collected two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7530,120779,7523,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252712","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-fantasy-hockey","11":"tag-matthew-wood","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252712","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=252712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}