{"id":568132,"date":"2026-03-29T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:54:08","slug":"caufield-scores-45th-goal-canadiens-defeat-predators-for-4th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568132\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield scores 45th goal, Canadiens defeat Predators for 4th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juuse Saros<\/a> made 28 saves for the Predators (34-30-9), who have lost consecutive games after winning their previous five.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the urgency level has got to rise all over the ice,\u201d Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. \u201cFor tonight, we didn\u2019t execute. And when you don\u2019t execute against a team like that that\u2019s fast, young and hungry, you\u2019re kind of chasing it and you play slow. We played slow a lot of the night, and therefore it\u2019s hard to sustain or get into any zone time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nashville holds the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference, one point ahead of the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery game is a must win,\u201d Predators captain Roman Josi<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who we play. We need to get points. There\u2019s a lot of things we can learn from tonight and be better tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demidov gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 11:34 of the first period on a wrist shot on the rush from the right circle that beat Saros on the blocker side. Suzuki recorded his 300th NHL assist on the play.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually when you create turnovers with our structure and paying attention to that, you\u2019re going to get odd-man rushes,\u201d Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said. \u201cIt\u2019s rare that you\u2019re going to get odd-man rushes from a breakout, break the other team down completely and get an odd-man rush. It\u2019s really hard, not that it never happens. But I feel they\u2019re playing the game that\u2019s in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapanen made it 2-0 at 3:12 of the second period on a shot from in front of the crease on a pass from Newhook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juuse Saros made 28 saves for the Predators (34-30-9), who have lost consecutive games after winning their previous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-568132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568132","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=568132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}