{"id":160211,"date":"2025-09-21T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:11:09","slug":"nashville-predators-rfa-luke-evangelista-remain-apart-in-contract-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160211\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators, RFA Luke Evangelista remain apart in contract negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Nashville Predators and restricted free agent forward Luke Evangelista remain significantly apart in contract negotiations, reports TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dreger reports the holdup is regarding money on a two-year term, although discussions remain ongoing. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ongoing discussions between the Nashville Predators and Luke Evangelista; however, the two sides remain significantly apart on money on a 2 yr term. The talented young forward has left Nashville and is returning to Canada to continue to train while negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/1969889653885907301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Dreger, Evangelista has left Nashville and gone back to Canada to continue training while negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old had 10 goals and 22 assists for a total of 32 points in 68 games last season for the Preds, his third with the team at the NHL level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto native was coming off a three-year deal that carried a cap hit of just under $800,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was selected in the second round (No. 42 overall) by Nashville in the 2020 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators and restricted free agent forward Luke Evangelista remain significantly apart in contract negotiations, reports TSN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,79557,79563,448,82],"class_list":["post-160211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-luke-evangelista-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482146","tag-nashville-predators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-18","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}