{"id":188429,"date":"2025-10-04T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188429\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:22:08","slug":"nashville-predators-agree-on-two-year-contract-extension-with-rfa-f-luke-evangelista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188429\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators agree on two-year contract extension with RFA F Luke Evangelista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> have agreed to a two-year contract extension with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/luke-evangelista\/8482146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/luke-evangelista\/8482146\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Evangelista<\/a> worth $6 million, TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston reports.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DarrenDreger<\/a> report, Luke Evangelista has a two-year deal done with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/preds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#preds<\/a> carrying a $3M AAV. <\/p>\n<p>The NHL&#8217;s last remaining unsigned RFA will get to training camp before the season starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1974265997629542790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract comes with an average annual value of $3 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Evangelista, 23, scored 10 goals and finished with 32 points in 68 games with the Predators a year ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agreement comes after TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reported earlier in September that Evangelista had left the team to train on his own in Canada. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, with the season opener scheduled for Thursday against the Blue Jackets, the two sides were able to come to an agreement and the final restricted free agent of the off-season has agreed to a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Predators selected Evangelista in the second round (42nd overall) of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. He made his debut with the team two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 172 career NHL games, the Toronto native has 33 goals and 86 points.<\/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 have agreed to a two-year contract extension with forward Luke Evangelista worth $6 million, TSN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,79563,448,82],"class_list":["post-188429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/188429","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=188429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}