Anaheim Ducks (42-33-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Nashville Predators (38-33-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators host the Anaheim Ducks after Luke Evangelista scored two goals in the Predators’ 3-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 38-33-10 overall and 21-16-3 in home games. The Predators have a -24 scoring differential, with 238 total goals scored and 262 allowed.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has an 18-20-2 record in road games and a 42-33-6 record overall. The Ducks have committed 320 total penalties (4.0 per game) to rank seventh in league play.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Thursday for the third time this season. The Predators won the previous matchup 5-0.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O’Reilly has 25 goals and 48 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has five goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier has 40 goals and 28 assists for the Ducks. Leo Carlsson has scored five goals with one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 4-5-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 5.1 assists, 3.6 penalties and 10.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Ducks: 2-6-2, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.5 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: Nicolas Hague: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Ducks: Chris Kreider: day to day (illness), Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Jansen Harkins: out (upper body), Ross Johnston: out (lower-body), Radko Gudas: day to day (lower body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Anaheim Ducks (42-33-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. Nashville Predators (38-33-10, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-269673","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\/269673","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=269673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}