The Ducks (33-24-3) continue their homestand by taking on the Islanders (35-21-5).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air on KCOP-13 and Victory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u2019s winning streak came to an end last night after falling to the Avalanche, 5-1. The Ducks were down 2-0 heading into the second period, but couldn\u2019t surmount a comeback.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a lot of these games, we\u2019ve been able to come back,\u201d said Alex Killorn. \u201cBut against a team like that, you can\u2019t really spot them two goals, they\u2019re just too good.\u201d<\/p>\n
One bright spot was the play of Cutter Gauthier. The forward continued his strong season campaign by scoring his sixth goal in as many games and has 13 points in his last 12 contests.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s game features two contenders for the 2026 Calder Trophy in Anaheim\u2019s Beckett Sennecke and New York\u2019s Matthew Schaefer.<\/p>\n
Sennecke currently leads all rookies in points (49) while Schaefer holds a one-score advantage (20) over Sennecke (19) in total goals. Schaefer\u2019s 20 goals are the most by an 18-year-old defenseman in NHL history.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s [his] skating, his lateral mobility,\u201d Sennecke said about the 2025 first-overall pick. \u201cIt\u2019s just his ability to look so smooth when he\u2019s skating, so controlled. He\u2019s unbelievable. It\u2019s crazy he\u2019s only 18, doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Islanders have been playing a similar brand of hockey to the Ducks as of late.<\/p>\n
New York is currently on a five-game winning streak with its most recent win coming over the Panthers on Sunday. The team has fallen behind 2-0 in their last three games but found a way to come back to win all three.<\/p>\n
As for the Ducks, head coach Joel Quenneville said the quick turnaround will allow for his team to compartmentalize the Avs loss and move forward, but at the same time, the Islanders present similar difficulties, so the Ducks have to be on their game to get back to their winning ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got the same comparable challenge ahead of us,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cThe Islanders have got a good team. They\u2019re gonna be dangerous, they\u2019re fresh, [and] they\u2019re ready, so let\u2019s make sure we come back with a better game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s game begins a four-game road trip for New York as head coach Patrick Roy said David Rittich will get the start between the pipes.<\/p>\n
This is the second regular season meeting between the teams as the Islanders took the first matchup, 5-2, in mid-December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (33-24-3) continue their homestand by taking on the Islanders (35-21-5). Puck drop is set for 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-205753","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\/205753","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=205753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}