{"id":159919,"date":"2026-02-02T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159919\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:58:08","slug":"chris-kreider-scores-two-goals-anaheim-ducks-beat-slumping-vegas-golden-knights-to-sweep-season-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159919\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Kreider scores two goals, Anaheim Ducks beat slumping Vegas Golden Knights to sweep season series"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Chris Kreider<\/a> scored two goals, Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 27 saves and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> swept their three-game season series with the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> with a 4-3 victory on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> scored and Ryan Poehling<\/a> added an empty-net goal for the Ducks. Anaheim earned its eighth victory in 10 games overall despite nearly blowing an early 3-0 lead during a third period dominated by Vegas.<\/p>\n

Mitch Marner and Ivan Barbashev<\/a> scored goals in their third straight games for the Golden Knights, who have lost five straight and seven of eight. Vegas has gone on two five-game skids since Christmas, with an 8-2-0 surge sandwiched between them.<\/p>\n

Tomas Hertl<\/a> scored with 6 seconds to play and Adin Hill<\/a> stopped 19 shots for Vegas.<\/p>\n

Kreider put Anaheim up 2-0 with his first multigoal game since Nov. 6 for the Ducks, who acquired him last June from the New York Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He opened the scoring late in the first when a puck from Poehling hit his leg and went in. He tipped home his 19th goal early in the second.<\/p>\n

Gauthier scored his 24th goal a few minutes later, beating Hill at the near post for Anaheim\u2019s fifth power-play goal in five games.<\/p>\n

Marner took advantage of a lucky deflection when Mark Stone<\/a>\u2019s pass from behind the net ricocheted off two Ducks and went straight to him.<\/p>\n

Vegas took control in the third period, and Barbashev tapped home a stationary puck in the crease after Dostal couldn\u2019t smother Jack Eichel<\/a>\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n

Anaheim right wing Troy Terry<\/a> returned from an 11-game absence with an upper-body injury, and center Mason McTavish<\/a> also returned after missing five games.<\/p>\n

The Ducks had their eighth consecutive sellout as they returned from a five-game road trip to begin a nine-game homestand. Anaheim doesn\u2019t play another road game until March 10.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Golden Knights: Host Vancouver on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ducks: Host Seattle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nhl<\/p>\n

Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Chris Kreider scored two goals, Lukas Dostal made 27 saves and the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-159919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159919","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=159919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}