ANAHEIM, Calif. – These young Anaheim Ducks know that the NHL is supposed to be hard, right?

Two goals from a 20-year-old on a 10-game point streak and another two goals from a 19-year-old rookie to beat last season’s Presidents Trophy winner for a seventh consecutive victory would seem to say otherwise, but Anaheim put up its most complete effort of the season in a 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday at Honda Center

Lukáš Dostál made 23 saves in his career-best sixth-straight win, and the Ducks have won seven straight for the first time since November 2021.

“It’s awesome,” 19-year-old Beckett Sennecke said. “It’s pretty fun to be a part of, and I’ve heard about the losing days of the past couple of years from all the older guys and guys that have been here for a while. They’re pretty pumped to get on that winning side now.”

Over the course of these seven wins, the Ducks have downed two-time reigning champion Florida twice, East contending New Jersey and Western Finalist Dallas, and on back-to-back nights, Anaheim usurped Pacific Division champion Vegas on the road and the top team in the NHL last season, Winnipeg, at home.

“It just says that we’re an amazing team,” 20-year-old Leo Carlsson said. “Contenders for real. Just got to keep this flow going.”

At 11-3-1 (23 points), Anaheim’s 11 wins in its first 15 games are tied for the second-most in franchise history, which the team has done twice (2013-14 and 2006-07).

The Pacific Division-leading Ducks have the second-best record in the entire NHL, bested only by the Central Division-leading Colorado Avalanche (10-1-5, 25 points). Anaheim travels to Denver for a nationally televised clash on Tuesday.

“That’s a great measuring stick,” Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. “Like I said when we were going into these four games, it was gonna be a good test for us, but coming out to Colorado… that’s the highest measuring stick, but I know we played some pretty good teams here lately and we know the challenge that they’re gonna bring.”

 

Sennecke Strikes a Second

With this being the first back-to-back games of the season Saturday night in Vegas and Sunday back in Anaheim, there was curiosity if Beckett Sennecke could sit for the first time this season.

Ducks management had said the 19-year-old would be following a similar development plan as Leo Carlsson did in his rookie season, where one tenant of that plan was not playing in both games of a back-to-back.

With Ryan Strome coming off of injured reserve before the game, it seemed like it would be time for some well-earned rest for Sennecke. Instead, the rookie went out and netted his first career two-goal game, as the Ducks took down last season’s Presidents Trophy winners.

“I felt good,” Sennecke said of his first career back-to-back. “Obviously, I’m young, so I stay fresh.”

Sennecke scored his first goal as the beneficiary of a stellar forecheck from his line with Mason McTavish and Cutter Gauthier, with the latter finding Sennecke alone in the slot to wire home Anaheim’s opening strike.

It was Sennecke’s 10th point in 15 games, which made him the fifth player in Ducks history with their first 10 career points in 15 games or less. Dan Sexton, Pavel Mintyukov, Stanislav Chistov and Leo Carlsson all make that list.

“Tonight he added more elements to his game,” Joel Quenneville said. “Whether it was coming up with loose pucks and strength on the puck. When you lose it and you trap everybody on your line, he sustained some good situations for us… He’s certainly got some different things in his bag of tricks type of thing, where he can he makes plays, and he’s slippery, and at the same time, he’s got some strength in the puck area, and got a tricky release as well.”

His second goal also came off a near-perfect forecheck shift, with Sennecke, Gauthier, McTavish and Drew Helleson all pitching in over the sequence. Gauthier eventually forced the puck to the net front, and Sennecke got a whack to sneak in the goal.

The goal pushed him into a tie for the rookie goals lead with Montreal’s Oliver Kapanen (6 goals).

“I think our forecheck kind of set the tone for us tonight,” Sennecke said. “and we were turning over a lot of pucks and creating and moving off each other really well.”

Yup. It’s that Swedish boy again. Leo Carlsson with his second consecutive two-goal game (4 goals in two days), and his second on the power play.

Leo is now just 2nd Duck to record four straight multi-point games at age 20 or younger. (Kariya, 6, 1995)

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Leo. Carlsson. (Wait, Again?)

“That was something that we talked about before season for us as the young guys to take a step,” Carlsson said. “My third season, Beckett (Sennecke’s) first few games, but me, Cutter (Gauthier), Mac (Mason McTavish) and those guys. It’s just about time, honestly.”

With some stellar deception on the right flank by Cutter Gauthier, Leo Carlsson was left wide open on the left flank of the Ducks power play for Troy Terry to pull out a rebound and fling it to the young Swede to put in Anaheim’s second goal of the game.

In the third period, Carlsson worked the middle of the ice on the power play to one-time a Chris Kreider feed for his second consecutive two-goal game. Carlsson has goals in three straight games.

“He’s having a great week and a great start to the season,” Quenneville said. “He’s doing some things that have been very special.”

Carlsson now has eight goals and 11 assists over his 10-game streak, and he keeps pace as the NHL’s second-leading scorer with 25 points on the season, tied with Chicago’s Connor Bedard. Only Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon (28) has more points.

Carlsson is now the second Swedish player in NHL history to record a 10-game point streak at age 20 or younger with Toronto’s William Nylander hitting a 12-game streak in 2016-17.

While the Ducks do get to enjoy two nights in their own beds and the energy of the home crowd, Sunday was functionally the third game of a six-game road trip.

After two road games in Dallas and Vegas, the team got back to Southern California at 1 a.m. on Sunday morning before taking on Winnipeg mere hours later in the second half of a back-to-back.

Anaheim will not hold practice tomorrow, as they ship back out for a three-game trip starting in Colorado on Tuesday. The Ducks continue to Detroit on Thursday and Minnesota on Saturday before coming home for a six-game two-week homestand.

Entering Sunday, the Ducks were tied with Utah for a league-low five home games.