VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Few in the NHL respond to a deficit better than the surging Ducks.<\/p>\n
Mikael Granlund scored twice, Mason McTavish scored his first goal in 15 games, and the Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks, 5-3, on Thursday night for their 24th come-from-behind win of the season, which is tied for the league lead.<\/p>\n
John Carlson had three assists, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, Troy Terry also scored, and Lukas Dostal stopped 27 shots for the Ducks (40-27-4, 84 \u200cpoints), who stretched their point streak to five games (4-0-1).<\/p>\n
The Ducks grabbed a 2-1 lead in the second period, only to see Vancouver rally and tie the score twice before McTavish ended his drought by scoring what proved to be the game-winner at the 5:45 mark of the third.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty hard,\u201d McTavish told NHL.com. \u201cIt\u2019s been a tough couple weeks, stretch of games for me, so it\u2019s nice to get that one for sure. It was a great feeling, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks remained atop the Pacific Division with a five-point cushion (and a game in hand) on second-place Edmonton and a six-point lead (and a game in hand) on third-place Vegas.<\/p>\n
Jake DeBrusk, Brock Boeser and Drew O\u2019Connor scored for the Canucks (21-41-8, 50 points), while Filip Hronek and Elias Pettersson each contributed a pair of assists. Kevin Lankinen made 29 saves.<\/p>\n
Pettersson\u2019s second assist of the night marked the 500th regular-season point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n
Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas returned to the lineup after serving a five-game suspension for the knee-on-knee hit on Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews. The blow left Matthews with a torn knee ligament that required\u00a0season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n
The Canucks got solid play from their special teams. DeBrusk and Boeser each scored power-play goals, and the penalty kill weathered a 95-second five-on-three before conceding Granlund\u2019s goal late on a penalty to defenseman Elias Pettersson.<\/p>\n
After the Ducks couldn\u2019t capitalize on an early \u2060power play, the Canucks scored on their first man-advantage chance minutes later.DeBrusk received a pass a few \u200bfeet to the left of Dostal with room to spin and sweep the puck into the far \u200bside of the net for a 1-0 lead at 5:45 of the first period.<\/p>\n
The Ducks then outshot Vancouver 14-12 and scored a pair of goals over a 2:24 span. They tied it 1-1 at 5:26 of the second period when Carlson made a short feed ahead to Killorn on a rush, who drove through the left faceoff \u200bcircle before lifting a backhand shot into the net.<\/p>\n
The Ducks penned the Canucks in their zone for \u200ba long stretch before a rebound popped in the air and Granlund knocked the puck across the goal line just \u200cbefore \u2060it landed for a 2-1 lead at 7:50 of the middle frame.<\/p>\n
The Canucks were on their third power play of the game when Boeser tied it 2-2 with a one-timer from below the left circle at 13:13 of the second period.<\/p>\n
The Ducks couldn\u2019t capitalize on a two-man advantage that lasted 1:36 and bridged \u200bthe second and third \u200bperiods, but Granlund followed \u2060up his own rebound and scored before the second penalty expired to move the visitors back in front 3-2 at 1:01.<\/p>\n
A turnover by Ducks rookie Beckett Sennecke sprung \u200ban odd-man rush the other way, and O\u2019Connor put in a rebound \u200bto tie it \u20603-3 at 2:22.<\/p>\n
Lankinen made a save on a breakaway by Ducks leading scorer Cutter Gauthier at 5:14, but McTavish scored 31 seconds later to put the Ducks ahead for good.<\/p>\n
His first goal in 15 games \u2013 his 14th of the season \u2013 came at the 5:45 mark of the third period, when he blasted a one-timer over Lankinen\u2019s glove from the faceoff dot for a 4-3 lead. Terry sealed the win with an empty-netter with five seconds \u200bleft.<\/p>\n
NOTES<\/p>\n
Vancouver owns the fewest points in the NHL but came in 12-1-0 in its past 13 games against \u200bthe Ducks. The Canucks were trying for a three-game sweep of the Ducks this season. \u2026 Pettersson tallied his 500th regular-season point in his 533rd game. Thomas Gradin is the lone Canuck to hit the milestone faster, doing so in 529 games.<\/p>\n
More to come on this story.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
The Ducks visit Calgary on Thursday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Few in the NHL respond to a deficit better than the surging Ducks. Mikael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-235434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235434","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=235434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}