{"id":101595,"date":"2025-12-19T19:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:59:36","slug":"ducks-close-5-game-trip-with-ot-loss-to-blue-jackets-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101595\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks close 5-game trip with OT loss to Blue Jackets \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ducks\u2019 Pavel Mintyukov, right, looks for an open pass as the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Isac Lundestrom defends during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Brendan Smith, left, clears the puck as the Ducks\u2019 Ross Johnston defends during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Zach Werenski, left, holds the Ducks\u2019 Alex Killorn during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Cutter Gauthier, right, keeps the puck away from the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Ivan Provorov during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Sean Monahan, right, skates past the Ducks\u2019 Mason McTavish during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Miles Wood, left, and the Ducks\u2019 Cutter Gauthier chase the puck during the second period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Jet Greaves, left, makes a save against the Ducks\u2019 Ryan Poehling during the second period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Olen Zellweger, left, goes against Columbus\u2019 Damon Severson during the second period Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Olen Zellweger, right, carries the puck away from the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Boone Jenner during the second period on Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio. The Ducks lost, 4-3, in overtime. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Mason McTavish, left, checks the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Zach Werenski into the boards during the second period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Yegor Chinakhov, left, interferes with Ducks goaltender Ville Husso during the third period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. Chinakhov was penalized on the play. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Cole Sillinger, right, passes the puck past the Ducks\u2019 Jackson LaCombe during the third period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Cole Sillinger, left, and the Ducks\u2019 Mason McTavish fight for the puck during the third period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Ivan Provorov, right, carries the puck across the blue line as the Ducks\u2019 Leo Carlsson defends during the third period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Jackson LaCombe, right, passes the puck as the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Charlie Coyle defends during overtime on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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Ducks goaltender Ville Husso, left, makes a save against the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Sean Monahan during overtime on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Adam Fantilli, right, shoots for the game-winning overtime goal as the Ducks\u2019 Olen Zellweger defends on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Adam Fantilli celebrates his game-winning overtime goal against the Ducks on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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The Ducks\u2019 Pavel Mintyukov, right, looks for an open pass as the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Isac Lundestrom defends during the first period on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo\/Jay LaPrete)\n<\/p>\n

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COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Looking like a team battling fatigue early, the Ducks found their game and salvaged a point in the finale of a five-game road trip.<\/p>\n

The Ducks\u2019 Jackson LaCombe tied the score with 3:16 left in regulation, but Adam Fantilli scored with 1:28 left in overtime to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night, snapping their five-game losing streak (0-4-1).<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski scored twice and added an assist in his 600th NHL game, Boone Jenner had a goal and an assist, and Kent Johnson added two assists. Jet Greaves stopped 24 shots for his first win since Nov. 20.<\/p>\n

Mikael Granlund had a goal and an assist and Ryan Strome also scored for the Ducks (20-12-2), who were coming off a 4-1 win against the New York Rangers on Monday night<\/a> and finished 2-2-1 on their trip. Ryan Poehling added two assists, and Ville Husso made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a lot of good things and we did some things that, you know, we\u2019re generous, but at the same time we\u2019ll take the point on the road down by two,\u201d Ducks coach Joel Quenneville told NHL.com. \u201cIn overtime, we\u2019ve had a lot of success and today was one of the games that didn\u2019t go our way, but we\u2019ll take the point on the road trip and regroup when we get home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Werenski gave Columbus (14-13-6) an early lead at 8:21 of the first period, burying a feed from Jenner to extend his home point streak to 11 games.<\/p>\n

The teams then combined for four goals in just under two minutes early in the second period.<\/p>\n

Strome pulled the Ducks even when he worked a give-and-go with Poehling and scored with a wrist shot from the crease at 3:35 of the second. Columbus responded with two goals in a 43-second span. Werenski tallied 24 seconds later when he elected not to pass to Isac Lundestrom at the end of a 2-on-1 rush and shot the puck under Husso\u2019s glove for a 2-1 lead. Columbus made it 3-1 at 4:18 when Jenner backhanded in the rebound of an Ivan Provorov shot just 19 seconds later to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second period we just let off for a little bit,\u201d LaCombe told NHL.com. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to play a full 60 minutes. Obviously, they\u2019re a good team but there\u2019s areas we can improve on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kind of in and out of games right now. It feels like it\u2019s every other game we\u2019re playing strong. But we\u2019ve done a lot of things well. We\u2019ve just got to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fourth line for the Ducks cut it to 3-2 after Blue Jackets defenseman Denton Mateychuk fell while handling the puck in his zone, leading to a 3-on-2 rush. Frank Vatrano dropped the puck for Granlund, who scored near side from the inside edge of the left circle at 5:29.<\/p>\n

LaCombe tied the score with 3:16 left in the third when he carried the puck below the goal line and banked his shot off Greaves\u2019 helmet and into the net.<\/p>\n

Fantilli then ended it in overtime, netting an unassisted goal with a wrist shot from the right circle 1-on-1 against Ducks defenseman Olen Zellweger after carrying the puck into the Ducks\u2019 zone with speed.<\/p>\n

The win was Columbus\u2019 first over the Ducks in Nationwide Arena since Dec. 1, 2017.<\/p>\n

The teams will square off again on Saturday at the Honda Center.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

The Ducks host Dallas on Friday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u2019 Pavel Mintyukov, right, looks for an open pass as the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 Isac Lundestrom defends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-101595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}