{"id":529006,"date":"2026-03-11T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:49:07","slug":"saros-makes-43-saves-predators-hand-kraken-3rd-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529006\/","title":{"rendered":"Saros makes 43 saves, Predators hand Kraken 3rd straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ufko put Nashville ahead 3-2 at 14:25 with a highlight-reel goal. Following a face-off win in the left circle by Ryan O’Reilly<\/a>, Marchessault collected the puck and fed it to Ufko at the blue line. Ufko danced through the Kraken defense before going backhand-forehand and tucked the puck around the left skate of Daccord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I had some space, kind of made that first move and saw I had a lane to the net,\u201d Ufko said. \u201c[O\u2019Reilly] did a good job of tying up the D-man, which gave me that lane. I just looked off the goalie and made a move, and it worked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just an, \u2018Oh, wow\u2019 moment. You dream about it as a kid, playing hockey in the NHL. And to be able to do it here with these guys and to be out there with those superstars, it\u2019s pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ufko, 22, was playing in his fourth NHL game and was recalled from the AHL on March 5 along with Schaefer and Svechkov.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s pretty special, honestly,\u201d Schaefer said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen that maybe twice in Milwaukee where he does the little shimmy shake and goes down and pots one, but I haven\u2019t seen that move where he does three little shimmy shakes and scores. That\u2019s a beautiful goal, and he\u2019s a special player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Stamkos<\/a> scored an empty-net goal at 19:55 of the third period for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n

NOTES: Ufko became the fifth defenseman in Predators history to have his first NHL goal be a game-winner. … Wood has four points (three goals, one assist) in a three-game streak. … Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn<\/a>\u00a0has five points (two goals, three assists) in his past five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ufko put Nashville ahead 3-2 at 14:25 with a highlight-reel goal. Following a face-off win in the left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-529006","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\/529006","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=529006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}