{"id":238920,"date":"2026-03-27T08:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:08:42","slug":"pacific-division-leading-anaheim-ducks-hold-off-vancouver-canucks-for-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238920\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Division-leading Anaheim Ducks hold off Vancouver Canucks for win"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2014 Mikael Granlund<\/a> scored twice, Alex Killorn<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> outlasted the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> for a 5-3 victory on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Mason McTavish<\/a> and Troy Terry<\/a> \u2014 into an empty net \u2014 also scored for the Ducks (40-27-4). John Carlson<\/a> had three assists, and Lukas Dostal<\/a> stopped 27 of the 30 shots he faced. <\/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 game-winner at the 5:45 mark of the final frame. <\/p>\n

Jake DeBrusk<\/a>, Brock Boeser<\/a> and Drew O\u2019Connor each had a goal for the Canucks (21-40-8), 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 helper of the night marked the 500th regular-season point of his NHL career. <\/p>\n

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

Ducks defenceman 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

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

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’s goal late in a penalty to defenceman Elias Pettersson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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. McTavish got his first goal in 15 games. His last came on Jan. 19. The Ducks have points in five straight games (4-0-1). <\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

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

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Pettersson tallied his 500th regular-season point in his 533rd game. Thomas Gradin<\/a> is the lone Canuck to hit the milestone faster, doing so in 529 games. <\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

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

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

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Gemma Karstens-Smith, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-238920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238920","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=238920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}