Cutter Gauthier, Leo Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist, Jacob Trouba had two assists, and Lukas Dostal made 23 saves and stopped five of six attempts in the shootout for the Ducks (35-24-3), who have won seven of eight.<\/p>\n
Gauthier and Alex Killorn scored in the shootout.<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield had two goals and an assist, Lane Hutson had a goal and two assists, Nick Suzuki had a goal and an assist, and Juraj Slafkovsky and Noah Dobson each had two assists for the Canadiens (33-18-10), who are 1-1-2 coming out of the Olympic break. Sam Montembeault made 28 saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kreider scored on a deflection with 42 seconds left in the third period and Dostal pulled for the extra skater to tie it 5-5.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens had scored three goals in a 4:23 span midway through the third period to take the lead.<\/p>\n
Caufield scored with a one-timer from the left circle to cut it to 4-3 at 8:41, Alexandre Carrier tied it 4-4 with a goal from the inside edge of the right circle at 11:47, and Caufield scored again with a netfront redirection of Dobson\u2019s shot from the left circle, putting Montreal in front 5-4 at 13:04.<\/p>\n
Each team scored on its first two shots of the game.<\/p>\n
Trouba’s wrist shot through traffic from the right point 20 seconds into the game was disallowed after a coaches’ challenge showed Kreider was offside prior to the goal.<\/p>\n
Gauthier quickly got the Ducks back on the board, finishing a rush with a one-timer from the right face-off circle for a 1-0 lead 39 seconds into the game.<\/p>\n
It was his sixth goal in a four-game goal streak.<\/p>\n
The Canadiens scored 22 seconds later on Suzuki’s one-timer from the right hash marks to tie it 1-1 at 1:01.<\/p>\n
Montreal was on the first power play of the game when Hutson scored with a wrist shot from the high slot for a 2-1 lead at 3:33.<\/p>\n
Radko Gudas took a one-timer from the right point that nicked off Montembeault’s webbing and hit the net to tie it 2-2 at 11:56 of the first.<\/p>\n
LaCombe scored the lone goal of the second period with a one-timer from above the right circle while on a power play to give the Ducks a 3-2 lead at 12:15.<\/p>\n
Carlsson scored 35 seconds into the the third period off a feed from Kreider to finish off a 2-on-1 and extend the lead to 4-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier, Leo Carlsson and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist, Jacob Trouba had two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-208633","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\/208633","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=208633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}