Nashville, TN (Sports Network) - Pekka Rinne stopped 44 shots to help the Nashville Predators clinch a playoff spot with a 4-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Wins by Nashville and Phoenix on Friday gave both teams 99 points for the fourth spot in the Western Conference with one game to play. The Predators play in St. Louis while Phoenix plays in San Jose with both games on Saturday. Patric Hornqvist scored twice and added an assist while Matt Halischuk and Sergei Kostitsyn each had a goal for the Predators, who have won two straight and close out their season on Saturday in St. Louis. Derick Brassard had the lone goal while Steve Mason was touched for all four goals on 25 shots for the Blue Jackets, who have dropped their past five games. When you have a good goaltender like they do it forces you to shoot more, said Brassard. There is a lot of frustration in our locker room cause we try hard and put everything we have into every game and its just not working out for us right now. Six minutes into the game the Predators took a 1-0 lead as Mike Fisher took the puck into the Columbus end and outhustled the defender to get a shot on net down low that Hornqvist followed up for the rebound goal. Less than two minutes into the second, the Predators took a 2-0 lead as Halischuk took a pass in the Columbus end and switched to the forehand before stuffing the puck in. It was a 3-0 game less than a minute later as Hornqvists backhander from the right circle fooled Mason for his 21st goal of the season. Brassard got Columbus on the board with 1:28 to play in the second with a big blast from the right circle that beat Rinne cleanly. Kostitsyin scored with 7 1/2 minutes to play in the third with a tip-in of a Hornqvist pass. GAME NOTES:Nashville went 24-9-8 at home this season...The Blue Jackets, who were 17-16-8 on the road, close their season at home on Saturday against Buffalo...The Predators took four of six from Columbus this season. cheap jerseys .C. -- The Carolina Hurricanes are making some moves the day after the official end of the NHL lockout. nfl jerseys china . Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Rodgers was limited in practice Friday and has not yet been medically cleared to play as the former MVP continues his recovery from a fractured collarbone. http://www.cheapjerseyssafe.com/ . The right-hander was traded from Milwaukee to New York for cash on Wednesday, two days after the Brewers designated him for assignment. cheap nfl jerseys .C. - Olympic skicross athlete Julia Murray is retiring from the sport following a long recovery from knee injuries. jerseys from china . PAUL, Minn.LONDON -- The British government and Olympic great Sebastian Coe are backing the national Olympic bodys fight to keep a lifetime ban for drug cheats. Coe, the two-time 1,500-metre champion who heads the organizing committee for the 2012 London Games, and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson said Friday they have written letters supporting the British Olympic Associations hardline doping rule. The letters were sent to the Court of Arbitration for Sport ahead of a hearing in London on March 12. The BOA is challenging a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which ruled in November that the lifetime ban was "non-compliant" with the global code and amounts to a second sanction. The BOA contends the rule, which has been in place since 1992, is a matter of eligibility. "I have written a supportive letter from a personal perspective of somebody who has a long and fairly robust history, and an unreconstructed history some might say, on this," Coe said. "It is a personal view." Robertson said he underlined the governments support for the BOAs right to select its own team.dddddddddddd "Secondly, it remains this governments policy to support a lifetime ban for drugs cheats," he said at a news conference marking the six-month countdown to the London Games. Britain, the only country that enforces a life ban, could be forced to drop the rule ahead of the London Olympics if it loses its case. Among British athletes currently covered by the BOA rule are sprinter Dwain Chambers, who served a two-year ban in the BALCO scandal, and cyclist David Millar, who was suspended for two years after testing positive for EPO. If WADA wins the case, Chambers and Millar will become eligible to compete in London. The BOAs regulation came under scrutiny after CAS threw out the International Olympic Committee rule that bars athletes who have received drug bans of more than six months from competing in the next games. The CAS ruling cleared the way for American 400-metre runner LaShawn Merritt -- who completed a 21-month doping ban last year -- to defend his Olympic title in London. cheap nfl jerseys ' ' '