{"id":205190,"date":"2026-03-05T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:30:07","slug":"cutter-gauthier-scores-twice-ville-husso-has-42-saves-in-anaheim-ducks-win-over-new-york-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205190\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier scores twice, Ville Husso has 42 saves in Anaheim Ducks’ win over New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier<\/a> scored twice in a span of just over three minutes in the first period, backup Ville Husso<\/a> stopped 42 shots and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> beat the New York Islanders<\/a> 5-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Beckett Sennecke<\/a>, Ryan Poehling<\/a> and Frank Vatrano<\/a> also had goals to help Anaheim to its 13th win in 16 games.<\/p>\n

David Rittich<\/a> had 20 saves for the Islanders, who had their five-game winning streak snapped despite outshooting the Ducks 43-25. Anders Lee<\/a> scored the 304th goal of his career, tying Clark Gillies<\/a> for the fourth-most in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Husso, who stopped 16 shots in the first period and 13 in both the second and third, had a timely performance amid speculation the Ducks are pursuing a backup goalie behind Lukas Dostal<\/a> before Friday\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n

He turned away a flurry of shots after New York pulled Rittich with 8 1\/2 minutes left in the game. Vatrano, who missed the previous 22 games because of an upper-body injury, scored into an empty net with 4:11 remaining to seal Anaheim\u2019s win.<\/p>\n

Lee banged the rebound of Tony DeAngelo<\/a>\u2019s shot from near the blue line past Husso for a 1-0 lead 4:58 into the game.<\/p>\n

But the Ducks scored three times in the final 7:04 of the period for a 3-1 lead. Gauthier took a pass from Sennecke on a power play and snapped a shot from the left circle past Rittich.<\/p>\n

Just 3:09 later, the 22-year-old Swede took a pass from Leo Carlsson<\/a> and scored from the right circle for his team-leading 31st goal to give the Ducks a 2-1 lead with 3:55 left.<\/p>\n

Sennecke snapped the rebound of Ian Moore<\/a>\u2019s shot into a nearly open net from the doorstep for his 20th goal.<\/p>\n

The Islanders had erased 2-0 deficits in each of their last three wins, but the Ducks kept them off the board in part by killing three penalties in the second period.<\/p>\n

Poehling squeezed a backhand tip-in just past Rittich\u2019s skate and over the goal line 2:11 into the third for his seventh goal and a 4-1 lead for Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks: Host Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Islanders: At Los Angeles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

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

Mike Digiovanna, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier scored twice in a span of just over three minutes in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-205190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205190","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=205190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}