{"id":571170,"date":"2026-03-29T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:22:07","slug":"caufield-scores-45th-goal-canadiens-defeat-predators-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571170\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield scores 45th goal, Canadiens defeat Predators for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caufield became the first Canadiens player with a 45-goal season since Stephane Richer<\/a>\u00a0scored 51 in 1989-90.<\/p>\n

Ivan Demidov<\/a>, Oliver Kapanen<\/a> and Alex Newhook<\/a>\u00a0each had a goal and an assist for the Canadiens (41-21-10), who have won five of their past six. Nick Suzuki<\/a>\u00a0had two assists, and Jacob Fowler<\/a>\u00a0made 23 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Canadiens are third in the Atlantic Division, remaining four points behind the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n

Juuse Saros made 28 saves for the Predators (34-30-9), who have lost consecutive games after winning their previous five.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nashville is one point ahead of the Los Angeles Kings for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Demidov gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 11:34 of the first period on a wrist shot on the rush from the right circle that beat Saros on the blocker side. Suzuki recorded his 300th NHL assist on the play.<\/p>\n

Kapanen made it 2-0 at 3:12 of the second period on a shot from in front of the crease on a pass from Newhook.<\/p>\n

Caufield extended the lead to 3-0 at 14:45 on a wrist shot from the slot after he forced a turnover from Predators forward Jonathan Marchessault.<\/p>\n

Newhook made it 4-0 at 16:23 on a one-timer from the left circle on a backhand pass from Demidov.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zachary L’Heureux scored for the Predators to make it 4-1 at 16:26 of the third period. Ryan Ufko dumped the puck in, and it bounced off the glass right to L’Heureux in front of the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caufield became the first Canadiens player with a 45-goal season since Stephane Richer\u00a0scored 51 in 1989-90. Ivan Demidov,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-571170","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\/571170","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=571170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}