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Mikael Granlund<\/a> will return for the Ducks against the Washington Capitals on Friday (10 p.m. ET; Victory+, MNMT, KCOP-13, SNW, SNO, SNE, TVAS). The forward hasn’t played since Nov. 13, when he had a goal in a 6-3 win against the Detroit Red Wings. He has missed 10 straight games and 18 of the past 19 because of a lower-body injury. “He looked like he was more than ready,” Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. “He adds a lot of pace to our game, play recognition, and his patience with the puck is high-end. … He does a lot of things for our group there, and you can use him in every situation.” Granlund, who skated with Ryan Strome<\/a> and Frank Vatrano<\/a>, has nine points (three goals, nine assists) in nine games this season. … The Ducks are currently without goalies Petr Mrazek<\/a>, who will be out 2-3 weeks for the Ducks with a lower-body injury and Lukas Dostal<\/a>, who has an upper-body injury and is expected to miss another 1-2 weeks. He has not played since Nov. 22. Ville Husso started in a 7-0 loss to the Utah Mammoth on Wednesday and allowed four goals on 21 shots before being replaced by Vyacheslav Buteyets<\/a> (three goals on 13 shots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Mikael Granlund will return for the Ducks against the Washington Capitals on Friday (10 p.m. ET;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}