{"id":548256,"date":"2026-04-08T23:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:32:18","slug":"predators-blank-ducks-5-0-move-into-playoff-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548256\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators blank Ducks 5-0, move into playoff position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ANAHEIM, Calif (WSMV) &#8211; The Nashville Predators defeated the Anaheim Ducks 5-0 on Tuesday, moving past the Los Angeles Kings for the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Backup goaltender Justus Annunen stopped all 43 shots he faced, recording a season high in saves. The shutout was Nashville\u2019s first of the season, also ending the franchise\u2019s 120-game streak without a shutout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey helped me a lot out there, like so many good box guys helped me see the puck and all their scorers, what they had we basically had someone on them, so it makes my job a lot easier,\u201d Annunen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Head coach Andrew Brunette said the team wanted to secure the shutout for Annunen.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775691136_13_WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of ones that have slipped away, and I was happy for the boys. They weren\u2019t going to let this one go for Big Juice, I mean he\u2019s been put in real tough situations. We haven\u2019t at times played our best in front of him and tonight I think they all wanted to give him a shutout and I\u2019m really happy for him,\u201d Brunette said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Predators have four more games to distance themselves in the playoff hunt. They close out the season with a three-game homestand that includes another matchup with the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>April 9:\u00a0at Utah MammothApril 11:\u00a0Minnesota WildApril 13:\u00a0San Jose SharksApril 16:\u00a0Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nashville next travels to Utah to face the Mammoth on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Utah currently holds the first wildcard spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif (WSMV) &#8211; The Nashville Predators defeated the Anaheim Ducks 5-0 on Tuesday, moving past the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,62314,231,4,28257,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-548256","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-justus-annunen-shutout","14":"tag-nashville-predators","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-playoff-race","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548256","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=548256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}