{"id":252530,"date":"2026-04-05T05:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:26:17","slug":"nashville-predators-pull-away-late-for-15th-consecutive-victory-over-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252530\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators pull away late for 15th consecutive victory over San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ryan O\u2019Reilly broke a tie midway through the third period and the Nashville Predators<\/a> beat the San Jose Sharks<\/a> 6-3 on Saturday night in a key game in the playoff race.<\/p>\n

The Predators blew a 3-0 lead before O\u2019Reilly converted off a pass from Luke Evangelista<\/a> to give them their 15th straight win over the Sharks for their longest winning streak ever against one opponent.<\/p>\n

Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored twice in the first period for Nashville, Steven Stamkos<\/a> had his 620th career goal and Erik Haula<\/a> sealed it with a short-handed goal with 2:34 to play to make it 5-3. Tyson Jost<\/a> added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

Juuse Saros<\/a> made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

The Predators moved into a tie with Los Angeles in the race for the second wild-card spot in the West with 81 points. San Jose is two points back but has a game in hand.<\/p>\n

Macklin Celebrini<\/a> scored his 41st goal of the season for San Jose. Nick Leddy<\/a> and Alexander Wennberg<\/a> also scored but the Sharks were unable to extend their winning streak to five games for the first time since November 2019.<\/p>\n

Yaroslav Askarov<\/a> made 29 saves.<\/p>\n

The Predators jumped on top of the Sharks early for the second straight meeting this season. After getting off to a 5-1 lead in the first period of a 6-3 win last month at home, Nashville got two goals in a 1:16 span from Forsberg to take a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Stamkos scored a one-timer from the circle on the power play to make it 3-0 late in the first before the Sharks rallied with two late goals in the second and a game-tying goal by Alexander Wennberg<\/a> early in the third.<\/p>\n

Nashville defenseman Nicolas Hague<\/a> left the game with an undisclosed injury in the first period and didn\u2019t return. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Predators: At Los Angeles on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Sharks: Host Chicago on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Josh Dubow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ryan O\u2019Reilly broke a tie midway through the third period and the Nashville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-252530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}