edge past the Montreal Canadiens in a shootout<\/a>. The two clubs are tied atop the comeback wins leaderboard, and veteran defenseman Jacob Trouba was asked the secret to the Ducks\u2019 belief when trailing.<\/p>\n\u201cBeing young and dumb,\u201d Trouba said with a smirk. \u201cI don\u2019t know. Honestly, it\u2019s a good thing to have. I\u2019ve been on teams in the past where you get down a couple and everyone just kind of sulks and it\u2019s, \u2018Oh no, how can we get out of this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn here, it\u2019s \u2018Just keep playing. We\u2019re gonna get an opportunity\u2019 and we feel we\u2019re good enough to score those goals. I think we have the guys to do it. So I think it\u2019s just a belief and a confidence that we have in our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks will likely see the return of forward Mikael Granlund against St. Louis. He hasn\u2019t played since the pause after sustaining an injury from a hit by Slovakia\u2019s Patrik Koch in the Olympic bronze-medal game, which Granlund and the Finns won.<\/p>\n
While the anticipation for Carlson was heavy in Anaheim, their opponents Sunday were sellers Friday, as the Blues dealt captain Brayden Schenn to the New York Islanders and shipped veteran defenseman Justin Faulk to the Detroit Red Wings. They had already traded Nick Bjugstad earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
As the first-place Ducks eye their first playoff berth since 2018 and first division title since 2017, the last time they led the division this late in the season, the Blues are turning their attention to the draft already. They\u2019ll have three first-round picks for the second time in four years, having made three selections on Day 1 in 2023.<\/p>\n
St. Louis at Ducks<\/p>\n
When: 6 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n
Where: Honda Center<\/p>\n
TV\/radio: Victory+, KCOP (Ch. 13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2013\u2013 The Ducks will close their nine-game stretch at home but won\u2019t open the John Carlson era…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-209563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209563","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=209563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}