Cutter Gauthier scored twice in a span of just over three minutes in the first period, backup Ville Husso stopped 42 shots and the Anaheim Ducks beat the New York…<\/p>\n
ANAHEIM, Calif.(AP) \u2014 Cutter Gauthier scored twice in a span of just over three minutes in the first period, backup Ville Husso stopped 42 shots and the Anaheim Ducks beat the New York Islanders 5-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Beckett Sennecke, Ryan Poehling and Frank Vatrano also had goals to help Anaheim to its 13th win in 16 games.<\/p>\n
David Rittich had 20 saves for the Islanders, who had their five-game winning streak snapped despite outshooting the Ducks 43-25. Anders Lee scored the 304th goal of his career, tying Clark Gillies 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 before Friday\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n
He turned away a flurry of shots after New York pulled Rittich with 8\u00bd 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’s 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 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’s 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
\nUp next <\/p>\n
Ducks: Host Montreal Canadiens on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Islanders: At Los Angeles on Thursday night.<\/p>\n