The Ducks (39-27-4) hit the road to take on the Canucks (21-40-8) for the first of a three-game Pacific Division road trip.<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air on KCOP-13 and Victory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim notched its second win in a row on Sunday after beating the Sabres 6-5 in overtime. The Cardiac Quacks lived up to their name as Mikael Granlund tied the game on a power play goal with just under 1:45 left in regulation.<\/p>\n
Troy Terry had the game-winner in overtime, good for his second goal of the game. The Ducks went three-for-four on the power play while killing off all of Buffalo\u2019s power play chances.<\/p>\n
Heading into tonight\u2019s game, the win gave Anaheim a four-point lead over Las Vegas for first in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been dying to play in these games,” Terry said. “We’re just trying to stay in the moment and just relish being in this position and hopefully keep learning along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tonight, Lukas Dostal will be back in the net for the Ducks. Radko Gudas is also back in the lineup after missing the last five games due to suspension.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s captain shared what he\u2019s seen from newly acquired Duck John Carlson, and how he himself can fit back in as the team makes its final push before the regular season ends.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohnny\u00a0came in and he looks great out there, he\u2019s playing big minutes for us,\u201d Gudas said. \u201cI just want to improve our back end there, make sure we\u2019re solid back there with three D-pairs and just be the best version of myself for the team. Play the role they give me and I\u2019m looking forward to getting more points and helping us get in a good position before the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vancouver hasn\u2019t played since Saturday but is currently on a two-game losing streak and remains last in the Pacific Division. Despite the seeding differential, Anaheim has struggled against Vancouver in its two games so far this season, going 0-2-0.<\/p>\n
Head coach Joel Quenneveille\u2019s club is looking for a different outcome tonight and said getting off to faster starts will be key because despite the team playing well from behind, \u201cit\u2019s not really what we\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to keep our momentum going here,\u201d Quenneville said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of incentive right in front of us and we want to make sure these are games and points we need to put us in the position at the end where we want to be. Every game is important for us right now. We want to put ourselves as high as we can and keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the third of four meetings between the clubs, and they\u2019ll meet for the final time on Sunday, April 12 for the Ducks\u2019 final home game of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (39-27-4) hit the road to take on the Canucks (21-40-8) for the first of a three-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-234680","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\/234680","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=234680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}