The Ducks (36-25-3)\u00a0continue their Canadian road trip with a visit to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs (27-27-11).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for\u00a04\u00a0p.m. PT and will\u00a0air\u00a0on\u00a0KCOP-13\u00a0and\u00a0Victory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim gained a three-point lead over Edmonton and Las Vegas in the division with its\u00a04-1\u00a0win\u00a0over Winnipeg on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Three Ducks players,\u00a0Ryan Poehling, Alex Killorn, and Jackson LaCombe, each had a\u00a0goal and assist in the win,\u00a0while Tim Washe tacked on the fourth\u00a0score.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a good mix, we\u2019ve got good balance,\u201d\u00a0head coach\u00a0Joel Quenneville\u00a0said. \u201cWe know we can score goals, and tonight is a good thing to bounce back to, about knowing that we can check too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing it together, that\u2019s the biggest thing,\u201d Poehling said. \u201cIt\u2019s the consistency that we\u2019ve brought. Everyone\u2019s showing it throughout the lineup\u00a0\u2026\u00a0It\u2019s a full effort from the team and I think that\u2019s\u00a0what\u00a0kind of makes\u00a0it so dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s game is a homecoming for Beckett Sennecke who\u00a0grew up in Toronto.\u00a0Sennecke currently co-leads NHL rookies in scoring\u00a0and Quenneville shared what\u00a0he\u2019s done to\u00a0carve out\u00a0a key role within this group.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s progressed every single day,\u201d\u00a0Quenneville\u00a0said. \u201cI think he\u2019s gotten stronger, probably feels more comfortable with his game. He\u2019s playing against strong\u00a0guys,\u00a0but I think he\u2019s shown he can hold his own\u00a0in tight areas \u2026 He\u2019s learning on the job,\u00a0but you\u2019ve gotta love his attitude and the way he\u00a0approaches\u00a0coming to the game every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Maple\u00a0Leafs have lost\u00a0eight games in a row\u00a0(0-6-2)\u00a0coming into tonight\u2019s matchup with the Ducks.\u00a0William Nylander, who currently has a six-game point streak,\u00a0leads the team in\u00a0assists (38) and points (60) while Auston Matthews paces the club in goals (26).<\/p>\n
Despite the Leafs\u2019 current slump, Ducks players know they aren\u2019t to be\u00a0taken lightly and shared what their own group needs to do to find success for a second win in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got a lot of skill, if we get back to playing simple,\u00a0I think that\u2019s going to be our best chance to win,\u201d Poehling said. \u201cThese guys have high talent and if you give them easy access to free plays, they make you pay for it.\u00a0So for us, [we need to] keep it simple and kind of play behind them is the biggest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the first\u00a0of two\u00a0meetings\u00a0between teams this season. They\u2019ll reconvene in\u00a0Anaheim on March 30 for the second\u00a0game.<\/p>\n
Drew Helleson returns to the lineup for Anaheim while Troy Terry and new acquisition John\u00a0Carlson remain out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (36-25-3)\u00a0continue their Canadian road trip with a visit to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-216780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216780","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=216780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}