{"id":431268,"date":"2026-01-25T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431268\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:25:08","slug":"mammoth-score-3-in-2nd-top-predators-for-5th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431268\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth score 3 in 2nd, top Predators for 5th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Stamkos<\/a> and Jonathan Marchessault<\/a> scored for the Predators (24-23-4), who have lost three of their past four. Juuse Saros<\/a> made 26 saves.<\/p>\n

“Too many passengers in a big game, which is a little bit disappointing,” Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. “But we’ve just got to rebound. We go back on the road (at Boston on Tuesday). I think we’ve played pretty well, especially lately. A good opportunity for us to grab it here and win next week.”<\/p>\n

Stamkos gave the Predators a 1-0 lead at 3:43 of the first period with a power-play goal on a one-timer from the left circle off a pass from Roman Josi<\/a>. It was his 17th goal in his past 22 games.<\/p>\n

The start of the game was moved up two hours because of expected inclement weather Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“I thought we had some really good looks to make it 2-or-3 to nothing in the first,” Brunette said. “Loved our first. We didn’t capitalize on them, a little bit of the same story that’s happened at different parts of the year. You’re not going to be great every night, and I totally understand that. Today was a little bit of a different kind of animal with the time change and the quicker turnaround than expected. You’re not going to be perfect, but you put yourself in a position to get something out of it. We didn’t.”<\/p>\n

Clayton Keller<\/a> tied the game 1-1 at 3:00 of the second period on a wrist shot that beat Saros above the blocker. Sergachev’s original shot attempt was blocked, and the rebound went to Keller in the left circle.<\/p>\n

Michael Carcone<\/a> increased the lead to 2-1 at 5:13 on a wrist shot from the left circle on the rush.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto made it 3-1 at 8:10 on a redirection of a shot from Sergachev. He had been a healthy scratch the past four games.<\/p>\n

“Legs were a little tight at the beginning, but I actually felt really good,” Yamamoto said. “Obviously playing with [Keller and Nick Schmaltz<\/a>], two unbelievable players. Very easy to play with and to read off of and stuff like that. I felt good and a huge team win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault scored for the Predators (24-23-4), who have lost three of their past four.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-431268","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\/431268","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=431268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}