{"id":273331,"date":"2026-04-17T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:23:23","slug":"ducks-5-4-predators-apr-16-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273331\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks 5-4 Predators (Apr 16, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — \u2014 Troy Terry<\/a> scored on a power play with 2:54 left, and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> beat the Nashville Predators<\/a> 5-4 on Thursday night helping them clinch the third seed in the Pacific Division for the postseason.<\/p>\n

The Ducks came into the regular-season finale third in the Pacific with five different scenarios still possible to lock down the final playoff matchups<\/a> This win, combined with Edmonton beating visiting Vancouver, means Anaheim starts the first round Monday at Edmonton. <\/p>\n

Anaheim also took the season series against Nashville 2-1, though the Ducks go into the postseason 2-6-2 over their final 10.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, Jackson LaCombe<\/a>, Alex Killorn<\/a> and Tristan Luneau scored for Anaheim. Mikael Granlund<\/a> had three assists. <\/p>\n

Steven Stamkos<\/a> scored twice and had an assist for Nashville,<\/a> giving him 42 goals this season. Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored two goals, giving him 40, and the Predators a pair of 40-goal scorers. Luke Evangelista<\/a> and Ryan Ufko<\/a> added two assists apiece. <\/p>\n

Gauthier scored 96 seconds into the game to put Anaheim up with a snap shot for his 41st of the season. <\/p>\n

The Predators, eliminated from contention Monday night, answered with Stamkos scoring his 41st midway through the first off an assist from rookie Cole O’Hara<\/a>, making his NHL debut. <\/p>\n

Forsberg scored on a tip-in on the man advantage at 15:54 for a 2-1 lead. LaCombe’s shot from near the blue line got through traffic tying it at 2 with 20.8 seconds left in the first. <\/p>\n

Killorn’s slap shot gave the Ducks a 3-2 lead at 4:33 of the second. Forsberg tied it at 14:37 with a shot from the slot, then Stamkos put Nashville up 4-3 with a wrister just outside the left crease on the power play. <\/p>\n

Luneau tied it at 4:17 of the third scoring off the rebound of Granlund\u2019s shot. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. — \u2014 Troy Terry scored on a power play with 2:54 left, and the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-273331","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\/273331","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=273331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}