{"id":175813,"date":"2026-02-13T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:07:07","slug":"gauthier-gets-25th-goal-and-surging-ducks-beat-kraken-4-2-to-move-closer-to-pacific-division-lead-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175813\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauthier gets 25th goal and surging Ducks beat Kraken 4-2 to move closer to Pacific Division lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier scored his 25th goal and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Seattle Kraken 4-2 on Tuesday night to win their final game before the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

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’ve won nine of 11 following a nine-game losing streak (0-8-1).<\/p>\n

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Anaheim climbed within one point of the Pacific Division lead and moved two ahead of the Kraken for third place. Seattle, which had won four in a row and five of six, holds a game in hand over the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Lukas Dostal was 4 1\/2 minutes from Anaheim’s first shutout in 137 games when Jordan Eberle redirected Jared McCann’s slap shot in front for his team-high 20th goal.<\/p>\n

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

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Dostal was forced to make several more stops and Chandler Stephenson rang a shot off the post for Seattle before time expired. Dostal finished with 26 saves.<\/p>\n

Jansen Harkins and defenseman Jackson LaCombe each had two assists for Anaheim, which improved to 17-8-1 at home. Those were the first two assists for Harkins this season to go with his three goals in 31 games.<\/p>\n

Philipp Grubauer stopped 27 shots for the Kraken.<\/p>\n

Gauthier opened the scoring at 4:01 of the second period on a snap shot from the top of the right circle just as a Ducks power play expired. Trouba made it 2-0 when the defenseman fired a hard slap shot from the right point with 32.8 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n

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Killorn scored from a sharp angle 24 seconds into the third, and Johnston made it 4-0 at 13:54.<\/p>\n

Anaheim’s streak without a shutout is the longest active drought for any NHL team. The last time the Ducks blanked an opponent came when Dostal made 26 saves in a 2-0 victory at San Jose for their lone shutout last season on Oct. 12, 2024.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Kraken: Play at Los Angeles on Wednesday night to conclude a three-game trip heading into the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

Ducks: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Feb. 25 in their first game following the break.<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier scored his 25th goal and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Seattle Kraken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4855,163,824,165,164,55943,1718,2070,2099,10370,16587,35046,33552,47,5498,57637,10371,88,2071,28748,1606],"class_list":["post-175813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alex-killorn","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-chandler-stephenson","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-jansen-harkins","tag-jared-mccann","tag-jordan-eberle","tag-los-angeles","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-philipp-grubauer","tag-ross-johnston","tag-san-jose","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-shane-wright","tag-the-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175813","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=175813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}