{"id":21032,"date":"2025-10-24T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:49:07","slug":"granlunds-career-high-team-record-5-point-night-fuels-ducks-resolve-for-wild-win-in-boston-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21032\/","title":{"rendered":"Granlund’s career-high, team-record 5-point night fuels Ducks resolve for wild win in Boston, 7-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2013 If there\u2019s one thing for certain seven games into the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> season, this team can score, and it can score quickly.<\/p>\n

The Ducks broke a 3-3 tie entering the third period with Mikael Granlund\u2019s first goal of the season\u2013a power play goal\u2013and hometown kid Sam Colangelo blasting his first of the season for a 5-3 lead. That advantage vanished in a 25-second span with just over five minutes to play, as the Bruins struck in a flash to tie the game, 5-5.<\/p>\n

But just 30 seconds later, Troy Terry took the air out of TD Garden finishing off a nifty play from Boston College alum Nikita Nesterenko, and Granlund hit the empty net for his career-high fifth point of the night, as the Ducks escaped from Boston with the win, 5-2.<\/p>\n

Anaheim has won back-to-back games and earned five of six points to open its road trip. Boston has lost six straight after a 3-0-0 start.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just kept playing,\u201d Granlund said. \u201cI felt like we had a really good third there, and all of a sudden they score two goals and it’s tie game and then we scored the next shift. So that was one of those games. Good job. We bounced back there and, you know, obviously we don\u2019t want to give up five goals a game, but, you know, you got two points and that’s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Granlund\u2019s five points tied an Anaheim record for points in a game, making the 33-year-old Finn the seventh Ducks player to achieve the feat. It was the 19th instance of a Ducks five-point night, and the first since Ryan Getzlaf registered five assists on Nov. 24, 2015 against Calgary.<\/p>\n

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Anaheim has scored seven goals twice this season, which matches its total of seven-goal over the past three seasons combined. With 26 goals in their first seven games, the Ducks have tied their team record set in 2012-13, and their 21 road goals are the most in club history, passing the 18 goals from the same 2012-13 season.<\/p>\n

Nesterenko also notched four assists, and paired with Granlund\u2019s five-point night, they are the first pair of Ducks teammates with four or more points in the same game since Adam Henrique and Nick Ritchie both collected four points on Feb. 23, 2020 against Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a lot of talent, a lot of skill on this team,\u201d Granlund said. \u201cI think we have a lot of pace out there and we keep generating some chances. Obviously tonight, those were going in, but I think we\u2019re a really, really tough team to defend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anaheim gave up the first goal of the game for the sixth time in seven games this season, but Drew Helleson tied it later in the opening frame. Cutter Gauthier erased a Bruins lead in the second period, and Jacob Trouba put the Ducks ahead late in the second. Boston tied it, 3-3, entering the final frame.<\/p>\n

While not pretty, Petr Mrazek stopped 36 of 41 shots to earn his second win of the season in his second start. Mrazek has allowed 11 goals in two games, with his first game being the Ducks 7-6 overtime thriller in San Jose.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ducks coach Joel Quenneville called that San Jose win \u201ca wow.\u201d Tonight in Boston?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be a wow, wow,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cCertainly had a lot of the same things that were going on out there, like pucks were going in at both ends. I thought the guys\u2013-I mean, Granny and that line of his made a big play on that goal right after they tied it up, so it was a good response. Well, we had some good things that we were doing out there, and at the same time, things we got to clean up, but never a dull moment out there tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anaheim (4-2-1, 9 points) concludes its five-game road trip in the state of Florida, with a match-up in Tampa Bay on Saturday and against the Stanley Cup champion Panthers next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a good test going into Tampa,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cWe’ve got a good start on this trip, and we want to keep the momentum going, and obviously, we’ve got to play more\u2013I’m gonna say, we got to play with the puck a lot better than we did that tonight going against Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anaheim Runs on Dunkin\u2019<\/p>\n

Outside of Minnesota, Boston can be considered America\u2019s other hockey hotbed, as well as maybe the country\u2019s largest college town, and the Ducks had two Massachusetts natives and three Boston College boys finf the scoresheet on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sam Colangelo, a Boston area native from Stoneham who played three seasons at Northeastern in Boston, stepped into a loose puck for an insurance marker in the third period\u2013his first goal of the season. This was his first NHL game in Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t really put it into words,\u201d Colangelo said. \u201cI couldn’t even put a number, how many people I have here and so many people that help me get here today and they know who they are, and I’m really, really thankful for them and happy that I was able to do something good in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colangelo said that his parents got glass seats at TD Garden through local connections, where they had an up-close view of this special moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that’s the first time my dad’s ever sat on the glass at a Bruins game, and we’ve been to hundreds,\u201d Colangelo said. \u201cSo, I got to see where they were after I scored, and it was a really cool feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the BC contingent, Drew Helleson scored a first-period equalizer, Cutter Gauthier scored a second-period equalizer, and Nikita Nesterenko assisted on Helleson\u2019s strike and Jacob Trouba\u2019s go-ahead marker later in the second period.<\/p>\n

Frank Vatrano, a Massachusetts native and UMass alum, earned his first point of the season with a touch assist on Mikael Granlund\u2019s go-ahead power play goal in the third period.<\/p>\n

Alex Killorn and Ian Moore also attended college at Harvard. Anaheim\u2019s fourth Boston College alum, Chris Kreider, was out with an illness.<\/p>\n

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Petr Mrazek rollercoaster continues<\/p>\n

Anaheim goalie Petr Mr\u00e1zek has a Ducks-themed rollercoaster painted on his mask this season, and it feels unfortunately apt through two starts this season.<\/p>\n

In his first start against San Jose, Mr\u00e1zek gave up two quick goals, but the Ducks eliminated three two-goal deficits to force overtime and claim victory in a wild 7-6 affair. The Czech native made just 23 saves on 29 shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you know, you win (that game),\u201d Quenneville said at Thursday\u2019s morning skate. \u201cI think you look at that, hey, you got that job done, so I think that I’m sure that gives you confidence going forward, and it’s been a while since he played. We wanted to get him in on this trip. And, you know, he got to watch a little bit, but at the same time, I’m sure you can’t wait to get back into the net, so it’ll be a good opportunity for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Boston, Mr\u00e1zek\u2013who made his 399th career start\u2013simply couldn\u2019t hold onto a rebound to start the game, as the Ducks again gave up the first goal. Boston\u2019s second goal came on the rush from distance with just a slight screen, and the Bruins\u2019 third goal was on a point shot on the power play, where it seemed as if Mr\u00e1zek was anticipating a deflection that never came.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean a couple of them went in there. They went in,\u201d Quenneville said after the game. \u201cBut at the same time, you know, we clean up loose stuff and turnovers in areas that you got to make sure plays and good puck placement in the right time where we have a chance to keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr\u00e1zek ultimately made 36 saves on 41 shots, but if there\u2019s lessening confidence in the Ducks\u2019 back-up netminder, his countryman and unquestioned No. 1 goalie Lukas Dostal may need to carry more of the load than Anaheim anticipated.<\/p>\n

Radko Gudas leaves game with lower-body injury<\/p>\n

Anaheim played the final two periods without its captain Radko Gudas. He was announced as out with a lower-body injury. Gudas is considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Gudas played 3:49 of ice time on six shifts in the first period with one hit. He was paired with Pavel Mintyukov on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Gudas rehabbed a knee injury over the offseason after opting to forgo surgery, as the injury was not as substantial as initially feared.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just one of the small things that happens throughout the season that ten of those things happen throughout the season, you know?\u201d Gudas said to open training camp.<\/p>\n

Gudas said he was \u201c100%\u201d and \u201cready to roll\u201d at the beginning of camp last month, and it certainly looked that way through the first six games of the season.<\/p>\n

Gudas was rolling with a 51.1% shot attempt share at five-on-five and had recorded two assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2013 If there\u2019s one thing for certain seven games into the Anaheim Ducks season, this team can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,10980,2063,1718,6489,17084,401,10370,1719,17085,9095,823,896,100,404,17083,16535,5429,2103,17086,4862,1722],"class_list":["post-21032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-cutter-gauthier","tag-drew-helleson","tag-frank-vatrano","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-joel-quenneville","tag-massachusetts","tag-mighty-ducks","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-nesterenko","tag-petr-mrazek","tag-radko-gudas","tag-sam-colangelo","tag-td-garden","tag-troy-terry","tag-tst-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032","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=21032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}