What We Learned<\/p>\n
Here are key takeaways from Sunday:<\/p>\n
Newhook can\u2019t be stopped<\/p>\n
Take a peek at the Montreal Canadiens’ stats for the regular season and you\u2019ll have to scroll down past six names until you get to Alex Newhook<\/a>, who scored 13 goals in 42 regular-season games. He comes after Cole Caufield<\/a> (51), Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a> (30), Nick Suzuki<\/a> (29), Oliver Kapanen<\/a> (22), Ivan Demidov<\/a> (19) and Josh Anderson<\/a> (14). But he\u2019s first in playoff scoring, with five goals in 10 games, including four in the past two against the Buffalo Sabres. He scored twice in a 6-2 win in Game 3 on Sunday, first tying it 1-1 at 15:31 of the first period on a rebound in the left circle. He was then awarded his second at 15:14 of the third period after being hooked by Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>\u00a0and hitting the post on the empty net. Newhook has never scored more than 15 goals in a regular season, but he\u2019s a third of the way there in the playoffs, giving Montreal yet another dangerous weapon on a team already full of them. His play just makes the task ahead of the Sabres that much harder — and the task ahead of the Canadiens that much easier. — Amalie Benjamin, senior writer<\/p>\n Ducks power play comes to life\u00a0<\/p>\n The Anaheim Ducks scored two power-play goals in their 4-3 win in Game 4 after going 0-for-11 through the first three games of the best-of-7 series. Beckett Sennecke<\/a> first scored on the man-advantage with a one-timer that found its way between the pads of Vegas Golden Knights goalie Carter Hart at 8:43 of the first. Alex Killorn<\/a>\u00a0then scored a second power-play goal at 17:58 of the second period, which stood up to be the game-winner. The Ducks were 8-for-16 (50 percent) against the Edmonton Oilers in six games during the first round, and it seemed a matter of time before it broke through against the Golden Knights. If Anaheim can build on the two power-play goals heading forward, they have a much better chance of advancing to the conference final. Having lost 6-2 in Game 3 at Honda Center on Friday, the Ducks have to win at least one game on the road to win the series. — Derek Van Diest, staff writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What We Learned Here are key takeaways from Sunday: Newhook can\u2019t be stopped Take a peek at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-664113","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\/664113","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=664113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}