{"id":351292,"date":"2025-12-16T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:03:07","slug":"forsberg-scores-hat-trick-for-predators-in-win-against-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351292\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsberg scores hat trick for Predators in win against Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Bunting<\/a> and Reid Schaefer also scored, and Roman Josi<\/a> and Ryan O’Reilly<\/a> each had two assists for the Predators (13-15-4), who are 7-3-0 in their past 10 games, including a 7-2 win against St. Louis in Nashville last Thursday. Juuse Saros<\/a> made 20 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a pretty solid game for us,\u201d Forsberg said. \u201cWe started off well, obviously, getting that early goal. That gave us a little boost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dalibor Dvorsky<\/a> scored twice for the Blues (12-15-7), who have lost three of four. Joel Hofer<\/a> made 21 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think our first period wasn\u2019t too good and we\u2019ve just got to find a way to get back into games,\u201d Dvorsky said. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing we need to work on, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forsberg put the Predators up 1-0 just 27 seconds into the first period. O’Reilly fed a backhand pass from below the goal line to Forsberg, who beat Hofer short side from low in front.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the first one, it was a great play by O\u2019Reilly that found me in the slot and I got it off quick,\u201d Forsberg said.<\/p>\n

Dvorsky tied it 1-1 at 10:06. Hugh McGing<\/a> stripped Predators defenseman Nick Blankenburg<\/a> of the puck in the offensive zone and fed a pass to Dvorsky in the high slot, where he beat Saros blocker side with a wrist shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe positive is Dalibor Dvorsky,\u201d St. Louis coach Jim Montgomery said. \u201cIt was nice seeing him moving his feet, beat a goalie clean with his first goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bunting and Reid Schaefer also scored, and Roman Josi and Ryan O’Reilly each had two assists for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-351292","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\/351292","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=351292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}