{"id":442267,"date":"2026-01-30T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:36:07","slug":"predators-goalie-annunen-loses-stick-gains-stick-tangled-in-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442267\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators goalie Annunen loses stick, gains stick tangled in pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief moment there, Nashville Predators goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/justus-annunen-8481020\" title=\"Justus Annunen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justus Annunen<\/a> didn&#8217;t have to distinguish between a kick save and a stick save.<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the midway point of the first period against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center on Thursday, Annunen made a big stop on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/paul-cotter-8481032\" title=\"Paul Cotter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Cotter<\/a>&#8216;s shot and turned aside a rebound attempt by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/luke-glendening-8476822\" title=\"Luke Glendening\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Glendening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where things took a turn.<\/p>\n<p>Annunen lost his stick and gained a stick at the same time, when teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/justin-barron-8482111\" title=\"Justin Barron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barron<\/a> got his lumber tangled around the strap of Annunen&#8217;s right pad.<\/p>\n<p>As Annunen reached down to attempt to undo the mishap, Barron picked up the goalie stick to hand it back to him, then tried to briefly fix the mess himself.<\/p>\n<p>Barron was unsuccessful and referees blew the whistle at the next available opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a brief moment there, Nashville Predators goalie Justus Annunen didn&#8217;t have to distinguish between a kick save&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-442267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}