{"id":221050,"date":"2026-03-15T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:27:08","slug":"preview-carlsons-ducks-debut-on-deck-vs-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221050\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Carlson\u2019s\u00a0Ducks\u00a0Debut on Deck vs Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ducks (36-27-3)\u00a0close out their Canadian road trip\u00a0by paying\u00a0a visit to Montreal (36-19-10).<\/p>\n

Puck drop is set for\u00a04\u00a0p.m. PT and will\u00a0air\u00a0on\u00a0KCOP-13\u00a0and\u00a0Victory+.<\/p>\n

In the first game of a back-to-back,\u00a0Anaheim suffered another loss on Saturday morning, falling to the Senators, 2-0.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran into a strong goalie tonight,\u201d Beckett Sennecke said. \u201cI\u2019ll give them credit, they were pretty tough in front of their net, clearing us out.\u00a0I think that just sums it up\u00a0\u2026 We knew they were going to play hard. All those points matter so much\u00a0\u2026 I don\u2019t think we kind of struggled out there, it was kind of a\u00a0back-and-forth\u00a0game. We kind of traded chances and they buried a couple of theirs and we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for today\u2019s\u00a0second game, reinforcements are on the way as\u00a0John Carlson will take to the ice as a Duck for the first time since being traded to the team from Washington on March 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, head coach Joel Quenneville said this team was \u201cForecasting [Carlson] to play in Montreal\u201d at the start of the four-game road trip and everything checked out for the defenseman to play.<\/p>\n

Carlson\u00a0called his\u00a0ensuing\u00a0debut \u201cexciting\u201d especially as it comes in a city with \u201cso much history\u201d as Montreal\u00a0and discussed the approach to today\u2019s game against the Habs.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor our team, it\u2019s a big game,\u201d Carlson said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a \u2018response game\u2019 for us to finish the trip right. Obviously, being my first game, I wouldn\u2019t want anything less than that. It\u2019s a big point in the season and it feels like coming down the stretch, most of the teams\u00a0we\u2019re gonna be playing are kind of jockeying for something and this will be no different and no different for us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has 10 goals and 36 assists in the 55 games he played with the Capitals this season.<\/p>\n

Montreal is\u00a0also on the second game of a back-to-back\u00a0after losing to the Sharks, 4-2, on Saturday; however, in\u00a0their last four games, the Canadiens are\u00a03-1-0.<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki\u00a0scored the team\u2019s goals against San Jose while Noah Dobson had two assists.<\/p>\n

This is the final regular season game between these two teams. Anaheim beat Montreal just\u00a0nine days ago in a thrilling 6-5 shootout victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (36-27-3)\u00a0close out their Canadian road trip\u00a0by paying\u00a0a visit to Montreal (36-19-10). Puck drop is set for\u00a04\u00a0p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-221050","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\/221050","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=221050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}