{"id":200728,"date":"2025-10-04T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:41:10","slug":"source-predators-luke-evangelista-reach-2-year-6m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200728\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Predators, Luke Evangelista reach 2-year, $6M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg WyshynskiOct 3, 2025, 08:57 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer.<\/p>\n

The Nashville Predators<\/a> and forward Luke Evangelista<\/a> agreed on a two-year contract Friday, a source told ESPN, ending the final restricted free agent stalemate of the NHL preseason.<\/p>\n

The contract carries a $3 million average annual value, the source said. Evangelista will be a restricted free agent again when this contract expires.<\/p>\n

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Evangelista, 23, is entering his fourth NHL season after being drafted 42nd by Nashville in 2020. He had 10 goals and 22 assists in 68 games in 2024-25, skating to a minus-2 in 13:52 of average ice time.<\/p>\n

He did not report to training camp amid a contentious negotiation with the Predators. The two sides traded offers for months and had recently discussed a three-year extension before agreeing on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n

Despite the prolonged talks, Nashville general manager Barry Trotz said recently he had no interest in trading Evangelista and saw him as part of a “great young group” of players on the Predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg WyshynskiOct 3, 2025, 08:57 PM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The Nashville Predators and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-200728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}