{"id":189293,"date":"2025-10-04T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189293\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:23:06","slug":"predators-sign-luke-evangelista-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189293\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators sign Luke Evangelista to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"c35b8a77-89c2-48d8-b707-ae483957c7a2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/luke-evangelista\/c35b8a77-89c2-48d8-b707-ae483957c7a2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luke Evangelista<\/a> has signed a two-year, $6-million contract, sources confirmed to Sportsnet on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old right-shot winger had 32 points last season (10 goals, 22 assists) in 68 games with the Predators. <\/p>\n<p>Evangelista finished ninth in Calder Trophy voting during his rookie season when he scored 16 goals and added 23 helpers over 80 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 42nd overall pick in the 2020 NHL draft signed late after just completing his three-year entry-level deal. <\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman previously reported on &#8220;32 Thoughts: The Podcast&#8221; that Nashville had offered Evangelista $4 million over two years. <\/p>\n<p>Evangelista was the last remaining unsigned RFA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Evangelista has signed a two-year, $6-million contract, sources confirmed to Sportsnet on Friday. The 23-year-old right-shot winger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-189293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189293","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=189293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}