Tonight\u2019s game begins a six-game slate against Pacific Division opponents prior to the WinterOlympic break. The Ducks will see the Kraken twice within that span, closing out a four-game regular season series between the teams. As of today, Anaheim has a two-point lead over Seattle in divisional standings.<\/p>\n
Per head coach Joel Quenneville, Dostal will get the start tonight for the Ducks making it his sixth start in the last seven games. While the workload is high, Quenneville is riding the hot hand of his goaltender, especially with the divisional slate beginning tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that we gotta take care of business here,\u201d Quenneville said of tonight\u2019s matchup in Seattle. \u201cI think that no matter what the situation is, I think he would be getting these starts with the momentum that he has right now. It\u2019s a good opportunity for him to get back in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Seattle, the team got back in the win column with a 4-1 win over the Islanders on Wednesday night, ending a four-game losing skid. Matty Beniers leads the team with 32 points while Jordan Eberle paces the club in scoring (17 goals) and Vince Dunn\u2019s 24 assists lead that category.<\/p>\n
Radko Gudas anticipates a physical battle tonight knowing what\u2019s at stake for both teams with Seattle holding a 2-0 advantage over Anaheim thus far this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a team that makes the other team feel very frustrated about their game,\u201d Gudas said of the Kraken. \u201cThey play a physical game, they have a ton of fast skill guys \u2026 I feel like we\u2019re doing the right things out there and it\u2019s been working for us so we\u2019re looking forward to continuing building on what we did the last few games. I think if we can sustain that and if we can stay out of the box against these guys, we can have success tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
After missing Wednesday\u2019s game as a late scratch, Mason McTavish (upper body) will not be available tonight yet Quenneville is \u201chopeful\u201d No. 23 will return towards the end of the team\u2019s road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight\u2019s game begins a six-game slate against Pacific Division opponents prior to the WinterOlympic break. The Ducks will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-146913","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\/146913","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=146913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}