{"id":163815,"date":"2026-02-04T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:44:10","slug":"gauthier-gets-25th-goal-and-surging-ducks-beat-kraken-4-2-to-move-closer-to-pacific-division-lead-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163815\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauthier gets 25th goal and surging Ducks beat Kraken 4-2 to move closer to Pacific Division lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutter Gauthier scored his 25th goal of the season and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Seattle Kraken 4-2 on Tuesday night to win their final game before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Trouba, Alex Killorn and Ross Johnston also scored as the resurgent Ducks built a 4-0 cushion before fending off a late Seattle push. They have won nine of 11 following a nine-game losing streak (0-8-1). <\/p>\n<p>Anaheim climbed within one point of the Pacific Division lead and moved two ahead of the Kraken for third place. Seattle holds a game in hand over the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Lukas Dostal was 4 1\/2 minutes from Anaheim&#8217;s first shutout in 137 games when Jordan Eberle redirected Jared McCann&#8217;s slap shot in front for his team-high 20th goal.<\/p>\n<p>A giveaway by Dostal led to another Kraken goal when a pinballing puck caromed in off Shane Wright to make it 4-2 with 2:31 left.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Kraken: Play at Los Angeles on Wednesday night to conclude a three-game trip heading into the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Feb. 25 in their first game following the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier scored his 25th goal of the season and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Seattle Kraken 4-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,7853,2071,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-163815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-kraken","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163815","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=163815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}