The Ducks (31-23-3) keep the homestand going and look for their fourth consecutive victory as they take on the Winnipeg Jets (23-26-8).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air exclusively on Victory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim earned its third straight win on Wednesday with a 6-5 comeback victory over Edmonton. In a game they never led until the final 74 seconds of regulation, Cutter\u00a0Gauthier scored the game winner which gave head coach Joel Quenneville his 1,000th regular season victory.<\/p>\n
Quenneville is only the second head coach in NHL history to accomplish that feat next to Hall of Famer Scotty Bowman (1,244).<\/p>\n
\u201c(Bowman\u2019s) in a different league when I look at his company,\u201d said Quenneville. \u201cHe\u2019s lonesome up there, the number he\u2019s at. Scotty and (former Blackhawks GM) Stan Bowman were in Chicago together. We had some great wins. He\u2019s got a lot of Cups, and he\u2019s been very successful in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he\u2019s looking at the game, and the other team, is something you can\u2019t really teach,\u201d Radko Gudas said of his head coach. \u201cIt just has to come with experience. Being the second one that can do it or will do it is absolutely, in the history of the game, incredible. Something you can\u2019t describe. That is one of the most special things that a coach, I would say, can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his return to action, Leo Carlsson had a goal and two assists in the win. After the game, he\u00a0discussed what it was like coming back off the thigh surgery that sidelined him since January.<\/p>\n
\u201cA little tired, a couple of long shifts,\u201d Carlsson said. \u201cI was absolutely gassed on the bench, but I felt okay. Stickhandling was okay, too. Speed was fine. So, pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
For tonight, the Ducks look to keep things rolling as they are on a six-game home winning streak and are third in the Western Conference playoff standings.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg currently remains out of playoff contention but comes into this game off a 3-2 overtime victory over Vancouver on Wednesday courtesy of Cole Perfetti\u2019s game winner.<\/p>\n
Connor Hellebuyck, who won gold with Team USA, is expected to return to the Jets lineup tonight.<\/p>\n
This is the second regular season meeting between these two teams with Anaheim taking the first game in a 4-1 win on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (31-23-3) keep the homestand going and look for their fourth consecutive victory as they take on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-196819","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196819","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=196819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}