{"id":359241,"date":"2025-12-21T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:56:11","slug":"evangelista-breaks-tie-in-3rd-predators-edge-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359241\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelista breaks tie in 3rd, Predators edge Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Stamkos<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Erik Haula<\/a> and Adam Wilsby<\/a> scored, and Brady Skjei<\/a> had two assists for the Predators (14-16-4), who have won two of their past three. Juuse Saros<\/a> made 19 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still a lot to go here, but we\u2019re responding well since that ugly game (an 8-3 loss to the Florida Panthers on Nov. 24),\u201d Nashville forward Michael Bunting<\/a> said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve turned it around and kind of made a decision to play good hockey and turn this boat around. I feel like we\u2019ve played well. I don\u2019t know what we are in the last few games, but we\u2019re definitely more wins than losses so that\u2019s good. We\u2019ve just got to keep building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobby McMann<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Nicolas Roy<\/a> and John Tavares<\/a> scored for the Maple Leafs (15-14-5), who have lost four of their past five (1-3-1). Nicholas Robertson<\/a> had two assists, and Joseph Woll<\/a> made 29 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we had a better process tonight, honestly,\u201d Toronto forward Auston Matthews<\/a> said. \u201cI thought we had the puck more, made more plays, allowed our forwards to kind of come through the neutral ice a little bit more. I think when you\u2019re making adjustments kind of on the fly, it\u2019s not going to be perfect right away. But I thought our process was much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy gave the Maple Leafs a 1-0 lead at 1:32 of the first period, tipping in a pass to the front of the net from McMann on an odd-man rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Stamkos had a goal and an assist, Erik Haula and Adam Wilsby scored, and Brady Skjei had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359241","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=359241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}