Ducks lose to Predators in Rickard Rakell’s return as Troy Terry’s streak ends

Rickard Rakell returned to the Ducks’ lineup aft a 10-game layoff due to the fact that of a near enarthrosis wounded and scored a second-period extremity successful a 3-2 nonaccomplishment to the Nashville Predators connected Monday nighttime astatine Bridgestone Arena. The Ducks’ nonaccomplishment was their 2nd successful a enactment aft an eight-game winning streak.

Troy Terry’s 16-game scoring streak came to an extremity arsenic helium didn’t grounds a extremity oregon an assistance for the archetypal clip since opening nighttime connected Oct. 13 against the Winnipeg Jets. He had 12 goals and 10 assists during his streak, the third-longest successful Ducks’ past down Corey Perry (19 games) and Teemu Selanne (17).

Yakov Trenin gave Nashville a 3-2 pb astatine 12:10 of the 3rd period.

Terry missed tying the people by inches, hammering a changeable disconnected the crossbar with the Ducks connected a powerfulness play with little than 3 minutes near successful regulation.

Rakell’s extremity 5:47 into the 2nd play tied the score, 1-1, and gave the Ducks an all-too-brief boost. Their momentum had been blunted repeatedly by penalties, and it would beryllium costly aboriginal successful the period. Mikael Granlund scored a power-play extremity to marque it 2-1 for Nashville astatine 15:20.

The Ducks had killed astir each of a tripping punishment to Trevor Zegras with Isac Lundestrom playing without a instrumentality aft his broke. But Ryan Johansen bushed Derek Grant connected a faceoff, mounting up Granlund’s goal. Johansen gave the Predators a 1-0 pb astatine 12:34 of the archetypal period.

Adam Henrique suffered an upper-body wounded successful the archetypal play and didn’t play for the remainder of the game, forcing Ducks manager Dallas Eakins to shuffle his lines for the last 2 periods. The Ducks past got a spot of luck to necktie it 2-2 connected Jamie Drysdale’s extremity astatine 3:47 of the 3rd period.

Drysdale’s changeable ricocheted disconnected 2 Nashville defenders and into the net.

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