fired their general manager, Brad Treliving, not long before the opening faceoff<\/a>. Treliving was ousted after nearly three seasons at the helm, with Coach Craig Berube\u2019s future also uncertain.<\/p>\n\u201c(Berube) told us quickly before warmup, it\u2019s really difficult. It\u2019s still hard to grasp it all, but mostly we\u2019re just extremely disappointed as a team,\u201d Tavares said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t do a good enough job, and it\u2019s very unfortunate that he\u2019s been let go.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the opening bout, Toronto continued prioritizing physicality over effectiveness. They went down two men early and made a hit behind a play that became a goal before giving up a power-play tally. They also diced their deficit with the extra man, leaving the score at 2-1 through 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Knies, whose roughing penalty had set up an unsuccessful five-on-three opportunity, was a wrecking ball and a reckless one on the Ducks\u2019 first goal. He hit Carlsson along the boards and when the Ducks regrouped in the neutral zone, he abandoned his position to crunch Olen Zellweger.<\/p>\n
Zellweger got the secondary assist as his fall took down Jake McCabe, leaving Troy Stecher at the net to defend three Ducks. Chris Kreider occupied Stecher as Terry set up Carlsson, 6:43 into the match.<\/p>\n
After Nylander took a run at Husso, the Ducks cashed in on the power play when Gauthier fired a wrist shot through Stolarz\u2019s five hole for his team-leading 38th goal of the season, at 9:46. Gauthier, however, was injured by a cross check later in the stanza and did not return.<\/p>\n
A cross-check from Jeffrey Viel left the Ducks shorthanded, and they paid the price when Tavares snapped in a rebound goal with 5:42 left in the frame.<\/p>\n
The Ducks regained a two-goal lead at the 11:33 mark of the second period, off Carlson\u2019s first goal in a Ducks uniform. Carlson had seven assists in his previous three games but finished off a short-handed rush with a rising shot to the far side this time. He had 10 goals with the Washington Capitals before switching addresses at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should have had two points in the game and been moving on to tomorrow,\u201d the 36-year-old veteran said. \u201cWe did a good job for a lot of the game in terms of how we played and in terms of dealing with the emotions, but we\u2019ve got to be more mature and come out on top of these games.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Leafs pulled within a goal on Knies\u2019 shot from above the left circle and through traffic with 13:05 to play.<\/p>\n
With 9:46 remaining in regulation, Toronto made it a new game when Beckett Sennecke\u2019s giveaway turned into a partial two-on-none break that Nylander finished with authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a great team in transition, so, yeah, it was too sloppy for us,\u201d Carlsson said.<\/p>\n
Carlsson helped the Ducks lift a point from the game, finding a big rebound in the slot and flinging it past Stolarz for his 26th goal of 2025-26.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was nice to see him return. It\u2019s amazing how many times \u2013 we\u2019d just gotten the goalie out, I don\u2019t know if it was a factor in the play \u2013 but certainly we\u2019ll take that point,\u201d Quenneville said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2014 It was a night of scores settled and scores upended, as the Ducks led, trailed, pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,127],"class_list":["post-244612","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\/244612","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=244612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}