The Ducks (25-21-3) begin a five-game road trip seeking their fifth win in a row with a visit to Colorado to take on the Avalanche (34-5-8).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 6 p.m. PT and will air on Victory+ and KCOP-13.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s game will be a milestone for Alex Killorn as he\u2019ll play in his 1,000th NHL contest. While he joked that he thought about \u201cbubble wrapping\u201d himself during morning skate to make it to tonight\u2019s tilt, he credits his \u201cconsistent effort\u201d throughout his career for helping him reach this marker.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really fortunate, honestly, to be in this situation,\u201d Killorn said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty special and I\u2019m fortunate, for sure \u2026 I haven\u2019t really taken it all in just yet. I think once I get through this game tonight I think it\u2019ll become more real.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks announced this morning that Jackson LaCombe has been named to Team USA\u2019s roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. LaCombe becomes the sixth member of the Ducks to represent Team USA at a Winter Olympic Games and is the sixth Duck of this current team selected to participate in this year\u2019s Games.<\/p>\n
While head coach Joel Quenneville called it a \u201ctremendous honor\u201d for No. 2, LaCombe described being named to the roster as a \u201cdream come true\u201d saying he\u2019s drawing on his experience competing in the World Championship last year as a way to get ready for Olympic play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you kind of just get a better understanding of what it\u2019s going to feel like, what it looks like, and what the other teams look like,\u201d LaCombe said. \u201cI got to play with some of those guys on the team over there too, so that made it even more fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Avs remain atop the Central Division and have continued their dominance this season with the best current record in the league including a 20-1-3 record at home. Colorado comes into this one off a 5-2 win over the Caps on Monday.<\/p>\n
Quenneville knows this game will be a good test for his group and said he\u2019s looking forward to his team continuing to build on what they\u2019ve been doing well as of late \u2013 especially because Colorado is a team that plays stingy against its opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey lead the league in goals (and) rush chances,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be aware of who\u2019s on the ice but then again, there\u2019s a lot of guys you\u2019ve got to worry about tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of those guys is Nathan MacKinnon. In the win over Washington, MacKinnon had two goals and one assist bringing his season goal total to 38 which leads the NHL. Additionally, he is tied for first in points (85) and his 47 assists are good for fourth in the league.<\/p>\n
With its current win-streak, Anaheim has moved back into third in the Pacific Division, behind Vegas (first) and Edmonton (second).<\/p>\n
After tonight, the team\u2019s next six games before the Olympic break will be against divisional opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (25-21-3) begin a five-game road trip seeking their fifth win in a row with a visit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-143671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143671","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=143671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}