A scuffle broke out during practice today for the Nashville Predators as the team's struggles push them to their breaking point. Predators forwards Luke Evangelista and Michael McCarron got in each others faces today during practice, garnering lots of attention from NHL fans and reporters alike. Apparently, Evangelista did not take kindly to a hit McCarron made on him during practice moments earlier. He responded by shoving the veteran, leading to teammates stepping in. Predators beat writer Alex Daugherty was in the building for the practice. He caught part of the scuffle on video and shared it so we could see it for ourselves. After the main practice ended, head coach Andrew Burnette addressed the incident calling it 'boys being boys' and 'old time hockey.' The Predators are dead last in the NHL this year, despite major offseason acquisitions including Steven Stamkos. The team has won just three of their last ten games and things do not seem to be getting any better. Most recently, the team was shutout by the Seattle Kraken in a 3-0 road loss. Clearly, things have not gone the way the Predators were expecting so far this year. With American Thanksgiving just around the corner, their odds of making the playoffs have plummeted and continue to drop. Hopefully this incident will spark a fire under the team as they look to salvage the season. That being said, it would have to go on a run similar to the 2019 St. louis Blues in order to make the playoffs. Can it be done? Sure. Is it likely? Probably not. This article first appeared on Blade of Steel and was syndicated with permission.Analysis: Barkley is NFL's version of Ohtani

Curl-Salemme gave Minnesota a 4-3 lead at 6:29 of the third period. Cava scored the final two goals, the last into an empty net. Claire Butorac and Dominique Petrie also scored and Maddy Rooney stopped 21 shots to help Minnesota improve to 2-0-1. Daryl Watts, Victoria Bach and Jesse Compher scored for Toronto. The Sceptres are 1-2-0. Minnesota beat Toronto for the fourth straight game dating to last season’s playoffs. The Frost won the final three games of a best-of-five semifinal after dropping the first two. Frost: Defender Maggie Flaherty served the first game of a two-game suspension for a headshot on Boston’s Alina Mueller, with Mae Batherson taking her place for her PWHL debut. Batherson is the younger sister of Ottawa Senators forward Drake Batherson. Sceptres: Rylind MacKinnon is one of only two Canadian university players in the PWHL, with New York's Emmy Fecteau from Concordia the other. MacKinn, a former University of British Columbia defender, has two assists this season. Toronto is at New York on Wednesday night. Minnesota host Ottawa on Thursday night. ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/sportsBy Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Monday charged two men with illegally exporting sensitive technology to Iran that was used in a drone attack carried out by Iran-backed militants in Jordan in January that killed three U.S. service members and injured 47 others. Federal prosecutors in Boston charged Mohammad Abedini, the co-founder of an Iranian-based company, and Mahdi Sadeghi, an employee of Massachusetts-based semiconductor manufacturer Analog Devices, with conspiring to violate U.S. export laws. Prosecutors also charged Abedini, also known as Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, with providing material support to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that resulted in death. The U.S. designates the Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organization. Abedini, a dual Switzerland-Iran citizen, was arrested in Milan, Italy, at the request of the U.S. government, which will seek his extradition. Sadeghi, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen living in Natick, Massachusetts, was also arrested. "We often cite hypothetical risk when we talk about the dangers of American technologies getting into dangerous hands," U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy in Massachusetts said. "Unfortunately, in this situation, we are not speculating." The Jan. 28 drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Jordan called Tower 22, near the Syrian border, was first deadly strike against U.S. forces since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October 2023. The White House later said it was facilitated by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization of hardline Iran-backed militant groups. At a press conference in Boston, Levy said the FBI had been able to trace sophisticated navigation equipment used in the drone to Abedini's Iranian company, SDRA, which manufactured the navigation system. Levy said Abedini had used a company in Switzerland as a front to procure American technologies from Sadeghi's employer including accelerometers and gyroscopes that were then sent to Iran. During a brief court hearing, Sadeghi was ordered detained pending a further hearing after a prosecutor called him a flight risk. His court-appointed lawyer did not respond to request for comment. A lawyer for Abedini could not be identified. Court papers do not identify Sadeghi's employer by name, but Analog Devices in a statement confirmed he worked for the company. Analog Devices said it was cooperating with law enforcement and was "committed to preventing unauthorized access to and misuse of our products and technology." (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Franklin Paul, David Gregorio and Lincoln Feast.)