{"id":386852,"date":"2026-01-02T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:45:08","slug":"beniers-scores-twice-kraken-defeat-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386852\/","title":{"rendered":"Beniers scores twice, Kraken defeat Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roman Josi<\/a> scored for the Predators (18-18-4), who had won two straight and five of their previous six. Juuse Saros<\/a> made 19 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to keep coming back, especially on the road down a couple goals,\u201d Nashville coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cWe had a lot of passengers tonight. The schedule got us a little bit, but for us, they were a little bit more desperate, which is sort of unacceptable this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beniers gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 3:48 of the first period. He positioned himself near the bottom of the left circle and redirected Ryker Evans<\/a>\u2019 wrist shot from the point over Saros\u2019 right shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one just kind of hit my stick,\u201d Beniers said. \u201c[I just] tipped it in front.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oleksiak pushed the lead to 2-0 at 10:41, using Ben Meyers<\/a> as a screen and scoring with a wrist shot into the top left corner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, a lot of ups and downs, I guess, right?\u201d said Oleksiak, who briefly left in the third period after blocking a slap shot from Nicolas Hague<\/a> off the outside of his right knee. \u201cBut we got the win, so it\u2019s all that matters.”<\/p>\n

Beniers scored his second goal of the period 10 seconds later to make it 3-0 at 10:51. Jordan Eberle<\/a> flubbed an attempt at the rebound of Kaapo Kakko<\/a>‘s initial shot, but the puck kicked out to Beniers, who poked it under Saros\u2019 glove from the edge of the crease.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaapo made a great play across to \u2018Ebs,\u2019\u201d Beniers said. \u201cI just went to the net and it was just sitting there, so I just poked it in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roman Josi scored for the Predators (18-18-4), who had won two straight and five of their previous six.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-386852","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\/386852","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=386852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}