{"id":546800,"date":"2026-04-08T05:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:19:19","slug":"ducks-lose-to-predators-in-shutout-drop-to-third-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546800\/","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

Anaheim 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 Anaheim 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 Anaheim 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 Anaheim\u2019s leaky defense on a breakaway and snapped a shot over Dostal\u2019s right shoulder for a short-handed goal and a 3-0 lead with 58 seconds left in the second.<\/p>\n

Anaheim\u2019s 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":546801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-546800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367403522913777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}