{"id":593125,"date":"2026-04-08T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:25:09","slug":"annunen-makes-43-saves-predators-shut-out-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593125\/","title":{"rendered":"Annunen makes 43 saves, Predators shut out Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Predators were on their first power play when Filip Forsberg<\/a>\u00a0scored with a wrist shot from above the circle with O’Reilly providing a screen to make it 2-0 at 11:26.<\/p>\n

The Predators killed a 22-second 5-on-3 power play late in the second period and then scored short-handed on the second penalty when Brady Skjei<\/a>\u00a0finished a 2-on-0 breakaway for a 3-0 lead at 19:00.<\/p>\n

Zachary L’Heureux<\/a> scored from in front of the crease to finish off a rush and extend the lead to 4-0 at 9:51 of the third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop giving them odd-man rushes,” Killorn said. “We give them a short-handed goal. Just a lot of breakaways and stuff like that. Shot-wise, I feel like we’re doing a good job producing shot volume, but we haven’t been able to score.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fedor Svechkov<\/a> redirected a centering pass from in front of the crease to make it 5-0 at 15:07.<\/p>\n

Nashville killed another 5-on-3 that lasted 1:26 late in the third period and finished 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n

“We hung in there,” Brunette said. “I thought ‘Big Juice’ was outstanding, especially early in the first. Back-to-back (games), we had a little trouble getting going a little bit. Didn’t think we found our game until the second (period). That and the penalty killing kind of won us the game tonight.”<\/p>\n

The Ducks had the only two power plays of the scoreless first period and outshot the Predators 12-5.<\/p>\n

Anaheim’s best scoring chance in the opening period came on a breakaway by Troy Terry<\/a>, but\u00a0Annunen made the save with six seconds left.<\/p>\n

“It’s always easier when you get shots early and get a lot of shots,” said Annunen, who finished one save short of his NHL career high.<\/p>\n

NOTES:\u00a0Forsberg extended his point streak to five games (five goals, three assists). … Anaheim used 10 forwards and eight defensemen. … Ducks forward Mason McTavish<\/a>\u00a0played in his 300th NHL game. … Anaheim defenseman Pavel Mintyukov<\/a>, who missed the previous three games with a lower-body injury, played in his 200th NHL game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Predators were on their first power play when Filip Forsberg\u00a0scored with a wrist shot from above the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-593125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}