The Ducks (37-27-4) hit the road for a quick one-game trip as they head to Utah to take on the Mammoth (36-27-6).<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for\u00a07\u00a0p.m. PT and will\u00a0air\u00a0on\u00a0KCOP-13\u00a0andVictory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u2019s comeback against the Flyers fell short on Wednesday as the team lost\u00a03-2\u00a0in overtime.\u00a0Despite the loss, the team still earned a point in the critical race for the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Down 2-1 with just under two minutes left in\u00a0regulation,\u00a0Leo Carlsson\u00a0scored the game-tying goal\u00a0which was good for his eighth game-tying goal of the season in the final five minutes.<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier scored the team\u2019s first goal, giving him his 35thof the season\u00a0and continues to pace Anaheim in goals\u00a0(35)\u00a0and points\u00a0(61).<\/p>\n
“It was a hard-fought game,”\u00a0head\u00a0coach Joel Quenneville said. “They were better than us in the first half. We got way more competitive and it put us in a good spot, but we’re pretty disappointed with the call at the end.”<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s matchup between\u00a0Anaheim\u00a0and Utah\u00a0has the potential to be a playoff preview. Ahead of the game,\u00a0Olen Zellweger\u00a0discussed the keys for his team to\u00a0continue earning points in the final stretch of the regular season.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying fast, playing hard, playing with a lot of confidence,\u201d Zellweger said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a fun game. Obviously,\u00a0I think both teams are fast and highly skilled and it makes for a great\u00a0matchup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Utah enters tonight on the second night of a back-to-back after beating the Golden Knights\u00a04-0\u00a0yesterday\u00a0for\u00a0their second win in a row after losing\u00a0the previous four.<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller had\u00a0two\u00a0goals in the first period, Jack McBain tacked on the third goal, and\u00a0Barrett Hayton had an empty netterand an assist.\u00a0Karel Vejmelka made 28 saves\u00a0for the Mammoth.<\/p>\n
Currently, the team sits in the first Western Conference wild card spot in the\u00a0playoff race, and Quenneville discussed how Utah has become a dangerous opponent as of late.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had that stretch where they\u00a0where they started winning some big games\u00a0be it off the rush, their speed game,\u00a0their skill, there\u2019s a lot of things that are adding up to why they\u2019re having success here,\u201d Quenneville said of Utah. \u201cThey\u2019re progressing and we know the importance\u00a0of what it is with both teams tonight and should be a fast game\u00a0and both teams know it\u2019s an important game.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the\u00a0third and final regular season meeting between the two teams. Anaheim and Utah have split the season series so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (37-27-4) hit the road for a quick one-game trip as they head to Utah to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-229090","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\/229090","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=229090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}