Top-10 Predators Goals of 2022-23

The Nashville Predators scored a lot of goals this season - 223 to be exact - and that's not even including shootouts. But a few stood out above the rest.
Let's take a look back at Nashville's top 10 highlight-reel goals of 2022-23:

No. 10: Cody Glass calls game against his former team (April 4 vs. Vegas)

The Vegas Golden Knights entered the game as the best in the West, but Glass won it for Nashville on a 4-on-3 power play when his cross-crease pass deflected in off the skate of Brayden McNabb at 3:30 of overtime.
"We'll take that," Glass said. "It was going to [Philip Tomasino] backdoor, and I think [McNabb] just deflected it. Sometimes when you try to be unselfish, good things happen. So, a good thing happened."

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No. 9: Roman Josi does it all (Jan. 9 at Ottawa)

The captain slapped home too many one-timers from distance this season for us to pick just one. So instead of trying to choose one of his many beauties from the blue line, let's highlight his versatility at the netfront (get you a man who can do both, right?). Here, he cashed in on a 2-on-1 rush by dumping in a cross-crease pass from Nino Niederreiter to kick off the scoring in Ottawa on Jan. 9.

No. 8: Colton Sissons scores in his 500th game (Jan. 19 at St. Louis)

Skating in his 500th career NHL game, Sissons potted the equalizer to get the Preds on the board in the second period of a Central Division tilt with the St. Louis Blues. Sissons received a lateral feed from Cole Smith off the rush and crashed the net to beat Jordan Binnington glove-side and tie the score at 1-1.

No. 7: Luke Evangelista scores twice in record-setting performance (March 21 at Buffalo)

This one is a two-for-one deal. Evangelista scored two goals just 40 seconds apart as part of a career-high four-point effort (2g-2a) on March 21 at Buffalo. In doing so, he became the fourth rookie in franchise history to record multiple games with at least three points in the same season and the second rookie in Predators history to record a four-point game. All four of his points against Buffalo came in the second period, tying a franchise record for points in a single frame. Three of those points came in a span of 6:01, marking the fastest a rookie has ever done so for the Predators.

No. 6: Alexandre Carrier scores his first career OT winner (Dec. 19 vs. Edmonton)

After missing four games in December with an upper-body injury, Carrier returned in triumphant fashion. He ripped a wrist shot past Jack Campbell in overtime to seal the win for Nashville over the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 19 for his second goal of the season and his first career OT goal. When Carrier was introduced during the postgame media availability as the "game winner, he chuckled and said, "You don't hear that too often, huh?"

No. 5: Matt Duchene fires a backhander five-hole (Jan. 21 vs. Los Angeles)

Less than a minute into Nashville's Jan. 21 home game against the Los Angeles Kings, Duchene received a feed from Glass, spun around a defender and fired a backhander five-hole from the edge of the circle to make it 2-0 Predators. It was the second of two goals scored by the Preds in the first 39 seconds of the game, making Nashville the 15th team in NHL history to accomplish the feat. The hot start led to an early goaltending change for Los Angeles, with Jonathan Quick entering the game in relief of Pheonix Copley after the latter made one save on three shots.

No. 4: Tommy Novak wins it in OT to cap off big road trip (March 13 at Anaheim)

Novak got a feed from Philip Tomasino and beat John Gibson on his blocker side with a wrist shot from out front to finish a six-game road trip with his first career OT game-winner. Novak led all skaters with three points (2g-1a) in the win and had three goals in his last two games after he scored Nashville's lone goal in regulation the night before in Los Angeles. The Predators, who had gone to overtime in three of their last four games, finished the trip with a 4-1-1 record.

No. 3: Ryan McDonagh nets his first goal in gold (Jan. 6 at Washington)

Timing is everything. The Predators and Capitals were deadlocked at 2-2 until McDonagh came in clutch with the game winner at the end of the third period. The veteran blueliner received a chip pass from Ryan Johansen on the rush and backhanded the puck in for his first goal as a member of the Predators.

No. 2: Filip Forsberg completes the hat trick with last-minute PPG (Dec. 31 at Vegas)

Speaking of clutch, how about Forsberg ripping the puck home on the power play with five seconds left to record a hat trick and force overtime in Vegas? It was Forsberg's franchise-leading eighth career regular-season hat trick and first since scoring four goals on Nov. 30, 2021 vs. Columbus. It was also the only hat trick by a Nashville player this season.
And that's not all - with his second goal earlier in the game, Forsberg became the third player in franchise history to record 500 points, joining Josi (601) and David Legwand (566). He became the quickest player in Predators history to reach the 500-point mark, doing so in his 601st career game.

No. 1: Juuso Parssinen goes between the legs for filthy OT winner (April 13 vs. Minnesota)

Yeah, we're never going to stop talking about this one.