Luke Evangelista

Luke Evangelista

23-Year-Old Right WingRW
Nashville Predators
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Evangelista's production took a step back in his third campaign, as the 23-year-old finished with 10 goals and 32 points over 68 appearances in 2024-25. It's not fair to put the blame for that drop from 2023-24's 39-point output solely on Evangelista. He missed some time due to injuries and was also playing for one of the most disappointing teams in the league. Still, he shot just 7.5 percent, and that was down from a middling 9.3 percent the year before. Evangelista is young and talented, but it's time for him to command a larger role and become a top-six regular for the Predators. If that doesn't happen, he'll have enough offense to help in deeper fantasy formats, but managers in standard leagues can afford to wait and see how he starts 2025-26. Read Past Outlooks
$Signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Predators in October of 2025.
Tips in goal
RWNashville Predators
January 17, 2026
Evangelista scored a goal on two shots in Saturday's 7-2 loss to the Golden Knights.
ANALYSIS
Evangelista got a piece of a Roman Josi shot, scoring the opening goal at 14:10 of the first period. The Golden Knights proceeded to dominate the rest of the contest. Evangelista ended a nine-game goal drought with the tally. He's now at seven goals, 34 points, 105 shots on net and a plus-10 rating over 47 appearances this season. The playmaking winger has plenty of potential in a top-line role alongside Ryan O'Reilly and Filip Forsberg.
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2024–25 Time On Ice Stats
  • Average Time On Ice:
    13:52
  • Average Power Play TOI:
    1:16
  • Average Short-Handed TOI:
    0:00
 
Ice Time
Power Play
Short-Handed
2022–23
16:34
3:13
0:00
2023–24
13:57
2:10
0:00
2024–25
13:52
1:16
0:00
2025–26
16:44
2:29
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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Evangelista did well enough in his first full NHL campaign to finish ninth in Calder Trophy voting, but there are reasons to be pessimistic about his chances of taking a step forward this season. Evangelista had 16 goals and 39 points in 80 regular-season outings in 2023-24, which is a solid result when you consider that he averaged just 13:57 of ice time. That translates to 2.1 points per 60 minutes, which isn't that far behind Claude Giroux, who recorded 64 points in 82 outings while averaging 20:06. The problem is Evangelista will have a tough time earning a bigger role in Nashville after they signed Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault over the summer. The 22-year-old Evangelista does have offensive upside, but it would be best to pencil him in for 40 points or so in 2024-25.
Evangelista made his NHL debut at the end of February and proceeded to post seven goals and eight assists over 24 contests to close out 2022-23. That's enough of a statement to suggest he's ready to be a full-time NHLer in 2023-24. Top-six minutes and a large power-play role are likely to land in his lap this year. He may be among the most talented of the Predators' prospects, and at 21 years old, he still has plenty of room to grow. He'll likely end up in the neighborhood of 15 goals, 40 points and 10 power-play points in 2023-24. That's more than enough production to be worth a late-round flier in redraft formats.
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Supplies two assists in win
RWNashville Predators
January 16, 2026
Evangelista logged two assists and a plus-3 rating in Friday's 7-3 win over the Avalanche.
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Two helpers in Vegas
RWNashville Predators
January 1, 2026
Evangelista collected two assists, one on the power play, in Wednesday's 4-2 win over the Golden Knights.
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One of each in Monday's win
RWNashville Predators
December 29, 2025
Evangelista scored a goal on three shots, added a power-play assist and went plus-2 in Monday's 4-3 win over the Mammoth.
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Chips in on power play
RWNashville Predators
December 24, 2025
Evangelista distributed a power-play assist and put four shots on goal in Tuesday's 3-2 overtime win over the Wild.
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First goal of December
RWNashville Predators
December 20, 2025
Evangelista scored a goal Saturday in a 5-3 win over Toronto.
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Heading north to continue training
RWNashville Predators
September 21, 2025
Evangelista has left Nashville and is returning to Canada to continue training while he remains in a contract dispute with the Predators, per Darren Dreger of TSN on Sunday.
ANALYSIS
Dreger relayed that discussions are ongoing between Evangelista's camp and the Predators, but both sides are far apart on salary for a two-year term. Considering Evangelista has left Nashville, it appears as though he'll miss a portion of the beginning of the 2025-26 campaign, but that could change if the restricted free agent agrees to a new deal in short order.
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