Game

Maple Leafs at Predators

Predators 5, Maple Leafs 3 · first star Luke Evangelista (1 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Toronto Maple Leafs 3 at Nashville Predators 5

Maple Leafs TOR

3 FINAL 5

Predators NSH

Saturday, December 20, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Bridgestone Arena, Nashville · TV SN · CBC

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Maple Leafs	1	1	1	3	22
Predators	0	2	3	5	34

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Maple Leafs attack left, Predators attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: TOR 22, NSH 34.

TOR in red NSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Maple Leafs 22 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Predators 34 shots on goal (5 goals, 13 missed, 26 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	TOR SOG	TOR G	TOR ATT	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT
1st	7	1	17	10	0	22
2nd	7	1	17	14	2	27
3rd	8	1	13	10	3	24
Total	22	3	47	34	5	73

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	TOR SOG	TOR G	NSH SOG	NSH G
Even strength	21	3	30	4
Power play	1	0	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	0	0	2	2

Attempt share by period

Predators took 60.8% of the shot attempts, and 59.2% of the 103 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Predators and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Maple Leafs hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Maple Leafs at Predators
Period	NSH CF%	NSH FF%
1st	56.4	53.9
2nd	61.4	60.7
3rd	64.9	59.3
Game	60.8	58.0

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

01:32 Nicolas Roy (3) Bobby McMann (7), Nick Robertson (7) · tip-in 1–0

2nd period

04:56 Erik Haula (5) PP Roman Josi (13), Steven Stamkos (6) · tip-in 1–1
11:57 John Tavares (14) Matias Maccelli (6), Jake McCabe (12) · deflected 2–1
19:26 Adam Wilsby (1) Ryan O'Reilly (18) · wrist 2–2

3rd period

09:18 Luke Evangelista (5) Brady Skjei (10) · backhand 2–3
18:25 Steven Stamkos (13) EN Filip Forsberg (12) · wrist 2–4
19:06 Bobby McMann (9) Nick Robertson (8), Easton Cowan (7) · wrist 3–4
19:51 Cole Smith (4) EN Brady Skjei (11), Michael McCarron (5) · snap 3–5

Three stars

Luke Evangelista NSH · R #77 · 1 G, 0 A
Adam Wilsby NSH · D #83 · 1 G, 0 A
Juuse Saros NSH · G #74 · 0 GA, .864 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:14	NSH	Cole Smith	hooking	2	Calle Jarnkrok
1st	12:56	TOR	Auston Matthews	tripping	2	Ryan O'Reilly
2nd	03:36	TOR	Jake McCabe	tripping	2	Luke Evangelista
2nd	18:43	NSH	Nicolas Hague	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Simon Benoit
2nd	18:43	TOR	Simon Benoit	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Nicolas Hague

Boxscore

Toronto Maple Leafs

Maple Leafs skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Bobby McMann #74	C	1	1	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	11:33
Nick Robertson #89	L	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:36
John Tavares #91	C	1	0	1	-2	2	2	0	0	58.3	17:45
Nicolas Roy #55	C	1	0	1	+2	2	1	1	0	60.0	15:54
Matias Maccelli #63	L	0	1	1	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:19
Easton Cowan #53	R	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	16:17
Jake McCabe #22	D	0	1	1	0	1	3	3	2	0.0	21:57
Auston Matthews #34	C	0	0	0	-3	3	0	1	2	60.0	18:23
Calle Jarnkrok #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	10:58
Dakota Joshua #81	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	10:35
Scott Laughton #24	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	69.2	12:06
Matthew Knies #23	L	0	0	0	-3	1	0	2	0	0.0	18:28
William Nylander #88	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:56
Morgan Rielly #44	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	6	0	0.0	19:19
Oliver Ekman-Larsson #95	D	0	0	0	-2	0	3	3	0	0.0	22:15
Philippe Myers #51	D	0	0	0	+1	0	4	0	0	0.0	14:07
Simon Benoit #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0.0	16:27
Troy Stecher #28	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	22:22

Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joseph Woll #60	L	32	29	3	.906	26/28	2/3	58:23

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Steven Stamkos #91	C	1	1	2	-1	4	1	0	0	50.0	16:49
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	2	2	+2	2	0	3	0	0.0	20:43
Erik Haula #56	L	1	0	1	-1	5	0	3	0	28.6	17:48
Cole Smith #36	R	1	0	1	0	1	7	0	2	0.0	15:16
Luke Evangelista #77	R	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	15:01
Adam Wilsby #83	D	1	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	19:56
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	46.2	14:25
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	0	1	1	+2	3	0	0	0	33.3	19:07
Filip Forsberg #9	L	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:45
Roman Josi #59	D	0	1	1	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	21:35
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	42.9	10:34
Tyson Jost #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:44
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	+1	6	1	0	0	0.0	16:46
Reid Schaefer #49	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	0.0	11:39
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	11:03
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:05
Nick Perbix #48	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	20:17
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	1	2	0.0	18:28

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	W	22	19	3	.864	18/21	1/1	59:59

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.