{"id":257069,"date":"2026-04-08T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:49:08","slug":"ducks-lose-to-predators-in-shutout-drop-to-third-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257069\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks lose to Predators in shutout, drop to third in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Justus Annunen stopped 43 shots \u2014 one shy of his career high \u2014 for his third career shutout, and the Nashville Predators sent the Ducks to their sixth consecutive loss, 5-0<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Erick Haula, Filip Forsberg and Brady Skjei scored second-period goals, and Zachary L\u2019Heureux and Fedor Svechkov scored in the third for the Predators. Joakim Kemmell and Ryan O\u2019Reilly each had two assists.<\/p>\n

The win pushed Nashville (84 points) one point ahead of the Kings for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Predators have four regular-season games left.<\/p>\n

The Ducks, who have been outscored 29-14 during their losing streak, remain stuck at 87 points. They also have four games remaining.<\/p>\n

The Ducks fell one point behind Edmonton and Vegas in the Pacific Division. The Ducks are only three points ahead of the currently eighth-seeded Predators and four points ahead of the ninth-seeded Kings.<\/p>\n

Nashville broke a scoreless tie when Haula took a pass in the high slot from Kemell and snapped a shot over Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal\u2019s blocker for his 13th goal.<\/p>\n

Forsberg made it 2-0 on the power play. The Swedish winger snapped a shot from the high slot that beat Dostal glove-side for his team-leading 73rd point.<\/p>\n

The Ducks had a chance to get back into the game when a pair of Nashville tripping penalties gave the Ducks a man advantage for four minutes starting with 4:16 left and a two-man advantage for a 22-second span.<\/p>\n

But the Ducks managed just one shot on goal during the long power play, and Skjei slipped past the Ducks\u2019 leaky defense on a breakaway and snapped a shot over Dostal\u2019s right shoulder for a shorthanded goal and a 3-0 lead with 58 seconds left in the second.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Viel then took elbowing and roughing penalties with 15 seconds left that gave Nashville a man advantage for four minutes, and boos rained down from the Honda Center at the end of the second period for the second straight game.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Ducks: vs. San Jos\u00e9 at Honda Center on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justus Annunen stopped 43 shots \u2014 one shy of his career high \u2014 for his third career shutout,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[113647,163,165,164,14904,113644,6264,113643,113645,5647,113646,12753,1602,1417,73437,9018,5250],"class_list":{"0":"post-257069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-13th-goal","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-brady-skjei","13":"tag-dostal-glove-side","14":"tag-ducks","15":"tag-erick-haula","16":"tag-high-slot","17":"tag-honda-center","18":"tag-man-advantage","19":"tag-nashville-predators","20":"tag-pacific","21":"tag-point","22":"tag-regular-season-game","23":"tag-second","24":"tag-shot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}