{"id":235452,"date":"2026-03-25T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:50:13","slug":"the-ducks-beat-the-canucks-5-3-as-mikael-granlund-scores-2-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235452\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ducks beat the Canucks 5-3 as Mikael Granlund scores 2 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund<\/a> scored twice, Alex Killorn<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> beat the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> 5-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Mason McTavish and Troy Terry<\/a> also scored for the Ducks, while John Carlson<\/a> had three assists and Lukas Dostal<\/a> stopped 27 shots.<\/p>\n

Anaheim grabbed a 2-1 lead in the second period, only to see Vancouver rally and tie the game twice before McTavish scored the winner at the 5:45 mark of the third.<\/p>\n

Jake DeBrusk<\/a>, Brock Boeser<\/a> and Drew O\u2019Connor scored for the Canucks, while Filip Hronek<\/a> and Elias Pettersson<\/a> each contributed a pair of assists. Kevin Lankinen<\/a> made 29 saves.<\/p>\n

Pettersson\u2019s second assist of the night marked the 500th regular-season point of his NHL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n

Anaheim remains atop the Pacific Division with a five-point cushion on the second-place Edmonton Oilers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas<\/a> returned to the lineup after serving a five-game suspension for the knee-on-knee hit on Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> captain Auston Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blow left Matthews with a torn knee ligament that required season-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 in a penalty to defenseman Elias Pettersson.<\/p>\n

The Ducks fell behind 1-0 in the opening frame, then outshot Vancouver 14-12 and scored a pair of goals over a 2:24 span.<\/p>\n

McTavish got his first goal in 15 games. He buried his 14th goal of the season at the 5:45 mark of the third period, blasting a one-timer over Lankinen\u2019s glove from the faceoff dot to give the Ducks a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n

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

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks: Visit Calgary on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Canucks: Host Los Angeles on Thursday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4855,163,824,165,164,75237,77048,20225,81064,41677,41678,47007,41680,5498,823,896,5429,4862,20226],"class_list":["post-235452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alex-killorn","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-brock-boeser","tag-drew-oconnor","tag-elias-pettersson","tag-event_recap","tag-filip-hronek","tag-jake-debrusk","tag-john-carlson","tag-kevin-lankinen","tag-lukas-dostal","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-radko-gudas","tag-troy-terry","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235452","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=235452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}