{"id":568247,"date":"2026-03-29T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:11:08","slug":"cole-caufield-scores-45th-montreal-canadiens-beat-nashville-predators-for-fourth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568247\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Caufield scores 45th, Montreal Canadiens beat Nashville Predators for fourth-straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Ivan Demidov<\/a>, Oliver Kapanen<\/a> and Alex Newhook<\/a> each had a goal and an assist as the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> beat the Nashville Predators<\/a> 4-1 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

The Canadiens won their fourth straight in a streak that has them third in the Atlantic Division just ahead of Boston. They swept the season series with Nashville for a second straight season. <\/p>\n

Cole Caufield<\/a> also had a goal as Montreal scored three in the second. Caufield now has 45 goals this season and is the first to reach that mark for Montreal since Stephane Richer<\/a> had 51 in 1989-90. <\/p>\n

Goalie Jacob Fowler<\/a>, a third-round pick in the 2023 draft held in Nashville, made 23 saves for the win. <\/p>\n

Nick Suzuki<\/a> had two assists for a team-leading 64 this season. Lane Hutson<\/a> also had an assist and now is the third defenceman in NHL history with multiple 60-assist seasons before turning 23, joining Paul Coffey<\/a> (three) and Bobby Orr (two).<\/p>\n

Nashville lost its second straight after a five-game winning streak pushed the Predators into the second wild-card berth in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n

Zachary L\u2019Heureux scored with 3:34 left for Nashville.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens outshot Nashville 9-2 in the first period. Demidov put them up 1-0 with a wrister just after skating into the right circle beating goalie Juuse Saros<\/a> (28 saves) stick-side at 11:34 for his 16th of the season. <\/p>\n

Montreal took control 3:12 into the second starting with Kapanen scoring his 22nd from in front of the crease off a pass from Newhook. <\/p>\n

The Predators had a pair of power plays in the second against a penalty killing unit ranked 27th in the NHL but couldn\u2019t beat Fowler. <\/p>\n

Then Caufield scored on a wrister at 14:45, and Newhook capped the period with a wrister from the left circle at 16:23. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Canadiens: Visit the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Predators: Visit the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Teresa M. Walker, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Ivan Demidov, Oliver Kapanen and Alex Newhook each had a goal and an assist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-568247","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\/568247","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=568247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}