{"id":407611,"date":"2026-01-12T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:49:07","slug":"josi-has-3-points-predators-hold-off-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407611\/","title":{"rendered":"Josi has 3 points, Predators hold off Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stamkos scored for the Predators to tie the game 1-1 at 13:15, also on a one-timer from the left circle on the power play. It was his 601st goal, tying him with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jari-kurri-8448569\" title=\"Jari Kurri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jari Kurri<\/a> for 21st in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a heck of a shot by Ovechkin and then to see [Stamkos] do it in the same game, it was pretty cool,\u201d Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cI mean that\u2019s about 1,500 regular season goals, who knows how many. For them to hit it at the same spot, probably the two greatest goal-scorers of our generation, or at least the past 20 years. To have them do it in the same night in the same building on the same ice, it\u2019s pretty special. It\u2019s a treat for anybody that able to watch this game today because I don\u2019t know if it will ever happen again with that many goals, scoring in the same spot in the same kind of place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cole-smith-8482062\" title=\"Cole Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Smith<\/a> gave the Predators a 2-1 lead at 1:12 of the third period on a shot from the slot on the rush with Josi.<\/p>\n<p>Josi gave the Predators a 3-1 lead at 4:29 on a one-timer from the top of the right circle on a 5-on-3 power play on a pass from Stamkos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of find ways to win games, which is huge for us,\u201d Josi said. \u201cI feel like the second, they had a lot of pressure. [Annunen] was amazing in net. He\u2019s been unreal every game. We said after the second \u2018We\u2019ve got to get back on the attack and take this game.\u2019 We found a way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stamkos scored for the Predators to tie the game 1-1 at 13:15, also on a one-timer from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-407611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407611","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=407611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}