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Predators Trade Veteran Forward to New Jersey Devils

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ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 07: Luke Evangelista #77 of the Nashville Predators controls the puck during the first period of a game against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on April 07, 2026 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

The Nashville Predators have struck a late offseason trade with the New Jersey Devils. The Predators and general manager Chris MacFarland are trading forward Luke Evangelista to New Jersey in exchange for a 2028 first-round pick and a 2028 second-round pick.

The Predators who acquired center Mavrik Bourque from the Dallas Stars earlier in the offseason as they look to get younger, make a confusing trade. Evangelista played in the top six for the Predators in the last few seasons and could pot 15-20 goals a season easily.

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But with it being super late in the offseason with the prospects challenge and training camp soon approaching, this trade does not make a lot of sense from the Predators standpoint. As for New Jersey, adding a forward like Evangelista after the Devils already added Anthony Mantha this offseason, is a huge win as of the current moment.

The Predators badly need to rebuild but adding Bourque now contradicts that

It is no secret that the Nashville Predators are one of those teams that badly just needs to tear it down and start all over again. They have a lot of cap space tied into Ryan O’Reilly, Steven Stamkos, Filip Forsberg, and Juuse Saros.

And now that they traded one of the most competent forwards on the roster in Evangelista, it is becoming more and more evident that they need to start all over. But the Predators also traded a few draft picks for former Stars center Mavrik Bourque in the offseason as well before he was offer sheeted.

Bourque is a young center that can really put the puck in the back of the net and really take over on offense when the rest of the top six is underperforming. But with the Predators not fully tearing it down, it made no sense to acquire him.

With Evangelista trade, Nashville should entertain offers on anybody after new season

With MacFarland deciding to trade Evangelista now, the Predators need to choose the route of rebuilding. They have a mix of veterans and young players on the roster right now and have been stuck in mediocrity for a long time now.

The Predators have not been a consistent playoff team since 2017 when they lost in the Stanley Cup Final to the Pittsburgh Penguins. It is clear that they are not going to make the postseason this year and just need to rip the bandaid off.

The Evangelista trade seems like just the start of a rebuild that MacFarland is manufacturing. They need to entertain any offers they get on Stamkos and Forsberg and O’Reilly.The Predators badly need it and hope that MacFarland can get them through a rebuild and come out of it as contenders later in the future.

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CBS chief Bari Weiss' involvement in viral El-Sayed report sparks debate among critics

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The alleged involvement of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss in a report about Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has fueled a fiery debate on social media.

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The network drew far-left outrage Monday for a report putting a spotlight on El-Sayed's deleted posts about 9/11 and linking them to the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack.

"As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack," CBS News wrote Monday.

CBS NEWS TAKES HEAT OVER REPORT ON DEM HOPEFUL ABDUL EL-SAYED'S NOW-DELETED 9/11 POSTS

Later that evening, Status News reported that Weiss "praised the story during the network's daily editorial meeting" and that she "personally directed that the headline be tweaked to specifically mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks."

Weiss' version of the headline, which was published, "Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks," provided context to the substance of the report. Fox News Digital learned the pre-Weiss headline originally read, "For Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Sept. 11 commemoration invites scrutiny of past remarks."

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Many on the left viewed Weiss' involvement in the El-Sayed story as a "scandal."

"A major scandal for CBS," the liberal outlet MeidasTouch reacted on X.

"It should be a scandal that a major American news network is now led by an overt, hands-on, undisguised Islamophobe but... it isn't. Islamophobia has been normalized in our media, and in our country. Shamefully," Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote.

"Not a good look whatsoever," Democratic strategist and podcast host Dan Turrentine said.

"Democrats: CBS must not be invited/allowed to host any debate in which Dem candidate appears," former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared on the liberal social media platform Bluesky. "The penalty for gutter racism and toadyism to a MAGA/fascist regime is that you do not get accorded treatment as a real news outlet. PERIOD."

Meanwhile, many conservatives laughed off the zealous reactions from the left and the report's findings about Weiss doing her job.

"So she’s the editor-in-chief?" National Review senior editor Charles C.W. Cooke reacted.

"How dare she improve the objective journalism of the entity she is responsible for," The Federalist editor-in-chief and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway replied.

"An editor does editing. News at 11," Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross quipped.

"Fascinated by the Bari Derangement Syndrome," GOP strategist Matt Whitlock reacted. "The Democrat candidate in the top Senate race in the country has been deleting tweets about how he feels about 9/11... After campaigning with a surrogate who said America deserved 9/11. Seems pretty newsworthy!"

CBS News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

The CBS report cited El-Sayed's deleted social media posts, including some from 2020 comparing the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 to the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Another post from Sept. 11, 2021, first uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, read, "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."

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El-Sayed was confronted about his deleted posts by a local CBS News reporter on the campaign trail.

"What happened on 9/11 is a disaster. It was a terrible attack on our country," El-Sayed said. "And our responsibility is also to think about, how do we build an America where we are protecting our servicemen and women from being asked to fight in wars we have no business fighting in?"

A CBS News source familiar with the story previously shrugged off the criticism, telling Fox News Digital that reports about deleted social media posts from politicians are published "all the time."

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