It was the final game of the regular season for both teams.<\/p>\n
Terry put Anaheim up 5-4 with a power-play goal at 17:06. Mikael Granlund sent a shot on net and Terry pounced on the rebound and lifted it over the left pad of Juuse Saros from in front.<\/p>\n
Granlund had three assists for the Ducks (43-33-6), who were 1-6-2 in their previous nine games. John Carlson had two assists, and Ville Husso made 17 saves.<\/p>\n
Steven Stamkos had two goals and an assist, and Filip Forsberg scored twice for the Predators (38-34-10), who have lost three of their final four games. Luke Evangelista and Ryan Ufko each had two assists, and Saros made 35 saves.<\/p>\n
Forward Cole O’Hara, who was selected by Nashville in the fourth round (No. 114) of the 2022 NHL Draft, had an assist and one shot on goal in 11:23 of ice time in his NHL debut after being recalled from Milwaukee of the American Hockey League earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
The Predators have already been eliminated from playoff contention.<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead 1:36 into the first period. Ryan Poehling skated into the offensive zone and fed a backdoor cross-crease pass to Gauthier, who buried a snap shot over Saros’ left pad from the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n
Stamkos tied it 1-1 at 10:09, taking a pass from O’Hara in the left circle and burying a snap shot past Husso’s glove.<\/p>\n
Forsberg put Nashville up 2-1 with a power-play goal at 15:55 when he tipped Ufko’s pass in the slot and the puck rolled in off the right pad of Husso.<\/p>\n
Jackson Lacombe tied it 2-2 at 19:39, roofing a snap shot from the blue line through traffic.<\/p>\n
Alex Killorn put Anaheim ahead 3-2 at 4:33 of the second period when his one-timer from the right boards beat a screened Saros to the blocker side.<\/p>\n
Forsberg evened the scored 3-3 at 14:37, snapping a shot into the top right corner for his 40th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Stamkos gave the Predators a 4-3 lead while on the power play just 46 seconds later at 15:23. He lifted a backdoor feed from Ryan O’Reilly over Husso’s blocker below the left circle.<\/p>\n
Tristan Luneau tied it 4-4 at 4:17 of the third period when he finished the rebound off a Granlund chance with a wrist shot from in tight as he crashed the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the final game of the regular season for both teams. Terry put Anaheim up 5-4 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-271912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271912","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=271912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}