{"id":235467,"date":"2026-03-25T07:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:02:12","slug":"canucks-rally-twice-but-fall-short-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235467\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks rally twice but fall short vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> outlasted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vancouver-canucks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"vancouver-canucks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> for a 5-3 victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mason McTavish and Troy Terry \u2014 into an empty net \u2014 also scored for the Ducks (40-27-4). John Carlson had three assists and Lukas Dostal stopped 27 of the 30 shots he faced.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim grabbed a 2-1 lead in the second period, only to see Vancouver rally and tie the game twice before McTavish scored the game-winner at the 5:45 mark of the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>Jake DeBrusk, Brock Boeser and Drew O\u2019Connor each had a goal for the Canucks (21-40-8), while Filip Hronek and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/elias-pettersson\/04396c28-a071-478a-b387-a456fac24415\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"04396c28-a071-478a-b387-a456fac24415\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elias Pettersson<\/a> each contributed a pair of assists. Kevin Lankinen made 29 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson\u2019s second helper of the night marked the 500th regular-season point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim remains atop the Pacific Division with a five-point cushion on the second-place Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks defenceman 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.<\/p>\n<p>The blow left Matthews with a torn knee ligament that required season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: Consistently battled back, tying the game at 2-2 and 3-3. \u2026 Got solid play from their special teams. DeBrusk and Boeser each scored power-play goals, and the penalty kill weathered a 95-second-long 5-on-3 before conceding Granlund&#8217;s goal late in a penalty to defenceman Elias Pettersson.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: Fell behind 1-0 in the opening frame, then tilted the ice in the second, outshooting Vancouver 14-12 and scoring a pair of goals over a two-minute 24-second span. \u2026 McTavish got his first goal in 15 games. His last came on Jan. 19. \u2026 The Ducks have points in five straight games (4-0-1).<\/p>\n<p>McTavish buried his 14th goal of the season at the 5:45 mark of the third period, blasting a one-timer over Lankinen&#8217;s glove from the faceoff dot to give the Ducks a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Ducks: Visit the Calgary Flames on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: Host the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks outlasted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-235467","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\/235467","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=235467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}