{"id":144447,"date":"2026-01-22T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144447\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:44:08","slug":"mikael-granlund-cutter-gauthier-score-in-shootout-as-anaheim-ducks-beat-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144447\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikael Granlund, Cutter Gauthier score in shootout as Anaheim Ducks beat Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund<\/a> and Cutter Gauthier<\/a> scored in the shootout and Lukas Dostal<\/a> stopped 40 shots as Anaheim defeated the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche<\/a> for the Ducks\u2019 fifth straight win Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Viel scored in his second straight game as the Ducks opened a six-game road trip.<\/p>\n

Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> scored for Colorado, and Scott Wedgewood<\/a> made 16 saves.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn<\/a> played in his 1,000th career NHL game. He spent 11 years with Tampa Bay, winning the Stanley Cup twice, before signing with Anaheim as a free agent in 2023.<\/p>\n

Colorado forward Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> returned after missing Monday night\u2019s win over the Washington Capitals.<\/a> He was involved in a car accident<\/a> on his way to the rink and was held out as a precaution.<\/p>\n

The Avalanche played without Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> (upper body), defenseman Devon Toews<\/a> (upper) and forward Joel Kiviranta<\/a> (lower body). Forward Logan O\u2019Connor has yet to play this season as he recovers from offseason hip surgery.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks visit Seattle on Friday.<\/p>\n

Avalanche wrap up a seven-game homestand against Philadelphia on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund and Cutter Gauthier scored in the shootout and Lukas Dostal stopped 40 shots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,6014,72255],"class_list":["post-144447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-ducks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-24","tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144447","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=144447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}