{"id":420851,"date":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420851\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:22:11","slug":"granlund-scores-in-ot-lifts-ducks-past-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420851\/","title":{"rendered":"Granlund scores in OT, lifts Ducks past Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mason-mctavish-8482745\" title=\"Mason McTavish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason McTavish<\/a> scored, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ville-husso-8478024\" title=\"Ville Husso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ville Husso<\/a> made 17 saves, and the Ducks (24-21-3) have won three straight following a nine-game losing streak (0-8-1). They won 3-2 in a shootout against the Kings in Los Angeles on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, we knew it was going to be a big week for us, big weekend for us. And we came through,\u201d Granlund said.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim has allowed four goals in its past three games after giving up 45 goals during the winless streak, which included conceding at least five goals in seven instances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay more predictability in our game,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cThe effort\u2019s been consistent, high end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kempe had a power-play goal and Forsberg made 31 saves for the Kings (19-16-13), who are 1-2-4 in their past seven games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know if I have the answer to that, to be honest, because if I did, I don\u2019t think we would keep being in the same position every game,\u201d Los Angeles forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/warren-foegele-8477998\" title=\"Warren Foegele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Foegele<\/a> said after the Kings fell to 12-5-13 in one-goal games. \u201cAt the end of the day, we didn\u2019t get the job done. We didn\u2019t get the two points, and it\u2019s not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks went up 1-0 at 6:11 of the first period when McTavish scored on a wrist shot from the left circle set up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/olen-zellweger-8482803\" title=\"Olen Zellweger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olen Zellweger<\/a> off the rush after a neutral-zone turnover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason McTavish scored, Ville Husso made 17 saves, and the Ducks (24-21-3) have won three straight following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-420851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420851","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=420851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}