{"id":160088,"date":"2026-02-02T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:15:30","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-continue-to-struggle-lose-fifth-in-row-to-anaheim-ducks-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160088\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights continue to struggle, lose fifth in row to Anaheim Ducks | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> have relied on their ability to rally in games one too many times.<\/p>\n

On the second night of a <\/a>back-to-back<\/a>, less than 24 hours after they nearly pulled it off at home, they had to do it again after falling in a three-goal hole to the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

Despite cutting the deficit to one late, a slow start plagued the Knights again in a 4-3 loss at Honda Center on Sunday night for their fifth straight loss and seventh in their last eight games.<\/p>\n

Mitch Marner and Ivan Barbashev each scored for the third straight game after the Knights trailed 3-0 early in the second period.<\/p>\n

The comeback bid ended when Ducks center Ryan Poehling scored into an empty net with 1:07 to go.<\/p>\n

Tomas Hertl added a late goal with five seconds remaining, and Adin Hill finished with 19 saves to send the Knights (25-16-14) to their second five-game losing streak of the season.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been the same story for the entirety of this stretch. The Knights gave up the game\u2019s first goal for the eighth time in 10 games.<\/p>\n

Not even a whole day after coach Bruce Cassidy urged his team to compete harder in front of the <\/a>net<\/a>, they gave up two goals to left wing Chris Kreider \u2014 one of the best in the league at scoring near the blue paint.<\/p>\n

Kreider got things started by deflecting a puck in the crease at 13:21 of the first to give the Ducks a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

The Knights struggled with Anaheim\u2019s entry. Poehling got around Ben Hutton after a failed poke check, and Poehling centered it to Kreider standing in the blue paint.<\/p>\n

Three Knights players and Hill were around Kreider after he got inside position.<\/p>\n

Kreider scored his second in typical Kreider fashion \u2014 on a tip in front of a screened Hill \u2014 1:10 into the second to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

Ducks winger Cutter Gauthier added a power-play goal 3:22 later.<\/p>\n

Marner got the Knights on the board at 9:47 of the second, and Barbashev cut it to 3-2 at 10:40 of the third.<\/p>\n

The Knights, once again, got going after hitting the snooze button one too many times.<\/p>\n

It was the fourth time in seven games the Knights have trailed by three goals. They\u2019ve rallied to make it interesting in three of them.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s becoming too commonplace, and the Knights\u2019 standing in the Pacific Division is taking a hit because of it. They\u2019re still in first place two games before the Winter Olympics break, yet first through sixth place is separated by six points.<\/p>\n

Knights left wing Jonas R\u00f8ndbjerg left in the second period after a hit by Anaheim captain Radko Gudas and did not return.<\/p>\n

Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com<\/a>. Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights have relied on their ability to rally in games one too many times. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-160088","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\/160088","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=160088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}