Apr 14, 2026, 01:03 AM ET<\/p>\n
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Macklin Celebrini<\/a> scored twice in the third period, including an empty-netter with 1:45 remaining, to reach 44 goals this season, and the San Jose Sharks<\/a> defeated the Nashville Predators<\/a> 3-2<\/a> on Monday night to end a 15-game losing streak in the series.<\/p>\n With the Predators’ loss, the idle Anaheim Ducks<\/a> clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2018. Anaheim, just 3-5-2 in its past 10 games, hasn’t won a playoff series since 2017. But it has two regular-season games left to get it right, knowing now that it has a reservation to the postseason.<\/p>\n The Sharks are not so fortunate. Later Monday, they were eliminated from the playoffs for the seventh straight season after the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> defeated the Seattle Kraken<\/a>. San Jose missed the playoffs just six times during its first 27 seasons.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Celebrini’s 30th multipoint game of the season moved him into a tie with Owen Nolan (1999-00) and Patrick Marleau (2009-10) for second most by a Shark in a season — trailing only Jonathan Cheechoo’s 56 in 2005-06.<\/p>\n Igor Chernyshov<\/a> netted his third goal in the past two games on a power play to open the scoring for the Sharks.<\/p>\n It was the longest skid for the Sharks against one opponent, and it had been Nashville’s longest winning streak against one opponent.<\/p>\n Luke Evangelista<\/a> scored both goals for the Predators to reach 12 this season.<\/p>\n Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> stopped 25 shots in the win for the Sharks. Justus Annunen<\/a> had 20 saves for the Predators.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 14, 2026, 01:03 AM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Macklin Celebrini scored twice in the third period, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-266808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266808","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=266808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}